What is the meaning of all those abbreviations that accompany the tea names?
| GFBOP | Golden Flowery Broken Orange Pekoe. Produced mainly in Assam. A top-rate tea of the broken grade as well as the only broken tippy from Kenya. Very popular in East Frisia. |
| GBOP | Golden Broken Orange Pekoe. The next, second sorting with few tips. |
| CTC BOP | CTC Broken Orange Pekoe. CTC = Cut, Tear, Curl. CTC production is a shortened, machine automated production process. Importance is put on a uniform leaf and a quickly colored infusion. |
| TGBOP | Tippy Golden Broken Orange Pekoe. The finest broken grade produced in Darjeeling and Assam. Highly tippy with smooth leaves. |
| TGFOP | Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe. The main grade of Darjeeling and Assam. |
| FOP | Flowery Orange Pekoe. Plain grade of Indian leaf tea. |
| FTGFOP 1 | Finest Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe 1. Mainly from Darjeeling, some from Assam. The finest grade of production, manufactured with exceeding care; even leaves and tippy (having white or golden tips). |
| SFTGFOP | Special Finest Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe 1. Superlative grade. |
| BOP | Broken Orange Pekoe. The main broken grade of Ceylon, South India, Java, and China. |
| FBOP | Flowery Broken Orange Pekoe. A coarser broken grade with some tips, it comes from Assam, Indonesia, China, and Bangladesh. In South America, a coarse, black, broken tea. In Southern India “Pekoe” is often called FBOP. |
| BPS | Broken Pekoe Souchong. Assam and Darjeeling, pearl-shaped leaves. |
| Pekoe | A Chinese term meaning “white down”, it refers to the character of the tender young leaves. “Pekoe” and “Orange Pekoe” are terms for the grade of tea. |
| BP | Broken Pekoe. A brown to black, heavily broken tea from Indonesia, Ceylon and Southern India; often with very woody, stalky particles. |
| OP | |
| OP Sup. | Orange Pekoe Superior. Tippy. Only produced in Indonesia. |
| GFOP | Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe. The top grade from the only surviving Kenya tea garden that manufactures tippy tea. |
| Fannings | Small particles of tea leaves, about 1 mm in size, used exclusively in tea bags. |
| Dust | The smallest grade of tea, used exclusively in tea bags. |
| Tippy/Tip | The lighter, or golden, tips of the tea (leaf tips of the young, tender tea leaf bud) that do not affect the color in the cup. |
| Broken | smaller leaf, broken or cut. |
| Extraneous Particles | The stem and woody stalks of the tea plant that are sometimes processed along with the leaves. |
| Infusion | Tea leaves after brewing. |
Glossery compiled from Teagschwendner