Did you know how white tea is made? The way how to dry the leaves of Camellia sinensis makes different kinds of teas. Not like green tea and other teas from C. sinensis, white tea isn`t roasted nor fermented. The fresh leaves are dried in the sun without any pretreatment. That`s why the leaves` downy hair is left after being dried, and the dried leaves` color seems white. White tea is classified as cold food in Oriental medicine due to this fact. It is revealed that drinking white tea lowers heat in the body. Also, white tea`s active ingredients effectively suppress elastase and collagenase which leads to anti-aging effect.