WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
HOT TEA MONTH
Profile America — Sunday, January 22nd. In the depths of winter, many Americans find soothing warmth in a cup of hot tea, be it herbal, ginseng, black, green or some exotic specialty blend. Lumped together, this appreciation of the brew underlies January's National Hot Tea Month. Tea is the only beverage commonly served either hot or iced and in any season. While tea has been consumed for thousands of years, Americans made two important contributions — inventing tea bags and iced tea — both in 1904. Recently, the U.S. has led in the development of ready-to-drink forms of tea in bottles and cans. There are 558 tea and coffee manufacturing establishments in the U.S., employing almost 18,000 workers, and doing $12.6 billion of business annually. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.
Sources:
Occasion/accessed 10/27/2016: http://coffeetea.about.com/od/teaandtisanebasics/a/31WaystoCelebrateHotTea.htm
First prepared/accessed 10/27/2016: http://www.brynmawr.edu/chemistry/Chem/mnerzsto/Marshall-Tea.html
Tea facts/accessed 10/27/20165: http://www.teausa.com/14655/tea-fact-sheet
Coffee and tea firms and employment/County Business Patterns/NAICS 31192: http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/BP/2014/00A1//naics~31192
Coffee and tea value of shipments/Annual Survey of Manufacturers/NAICS 31192: http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ASM/2014/31GS101//naics~31192
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu).
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
