Ceylon tea is often described as being highly tannic, which refers to its dark color and a certain type of astringency and bitterness, but the color and amount of bitterness and astringency varies widely.

 Typical Ceylon tea is a powerful, robust tea, dark, full-bodied, and with a strong, bitter flavor. Its aroma is often described as malty. Many Ceylon teas are said to have nuances of chocolate, and nutty, floral, or fruity tones in their aroma as well, sometimes with toasty or caramel-like qualities as well.  Ceylon tea definitely has its own recognizable style, but there is a huge amount of variability among Ceylon teas.

 Many of the higher grades of Ceylon tea, and many of the batches of single-estate Ceylon teas are very smooth. Some of these high-end teas are even naturally sweet, with little bitterness or astringency, and a complex and highly nuanced aroma. Ceylon tea is often described as being highly tannic, which refers to its dark color and a certain type of astringency and bitterness, but the color and amount of bitterness and astringency varies widely.

 Because of its strength, Ceylon tea is a favorite ingredient in breakfast blends, such as English breakfast, but especially Irish Breakfast and Ostfriesentee, a breakfast tea from East Frisia in Germany.

 Irish breakfast and Ostfriesentee are often made exclusively out of Ceylon tea, and even when it is a blend, Irish breakfast tends to be predominantly Ceylon. Pure Ceylon tea makes an outstanding breakfast tea, and is one of the best choices if you want the classic flavor of a black breakfast tea.

 Ceylon tea which contains a larger portion of tips or leaf buds. The tips and leaf buds are higher in caffeine, which makes tippy Ceylon both a favorite ingredient in breakfast blends, as well as a favorite breakfast tea in its own right.

 Ceylon tea is widely available; most tea companies that specialize in British tea culture or other western tea cultures carry Ceylon, but there are also numerous tea companies that specialize specialize exclusively in teas from the Sri Lanka region, which have a much bigger selection.

 If you are seeking the best Ceylon teas, you would do well to begin buying and sampling single estate and single-harvest loose-leaf teas from Ceylon. Not only do these teas tend to be higher-quality than most of the blends available in mainstream stores, but sampling single estate teas and single-harvest teas can enable you to experience nuances of flavor and aroma that you would not notice if you only drink blends.

 Most teas contain large amounts of polyphenols, which are plant-based substances that have been shown to have antioxidant, anticancer, and antiviral properties. Ceylon Green tea burns fat and boosts your metabolism rate naturally. It can help you burn up to 70 calories in just one day. That translates to 7 pounds in one year.

 Black Ceylon tea is a variety of tea obtained from the Camellia sinensis plant. Of the four different varieties of teas produced from the plant - namely White tea, Oolong tea, Green tea, and Black tea. Among them Ceylon Black tea is the most popular.

 Black Ceylon tea owes much of its popularity, especially in the US, to the fact that it is most widely available as tea bags, and is the tea used to make iced tea. It is also being touted to have much health benefits, since the tea is a host for high antioxidant content. The tea also holds traces of quite a number of trace elements needed by the body.