Tea (Camellia sinensis): A Review of Nutritional Composition, Potential Applications, and Omics Research

Tea (Camelliasinensis) is the world’s most widely consumed non-alcoholic beverage with essential economic and health benefits since it an excellent source of polyphenols, catechins, amino acids, flavonoids, carotenoids, vitamins, polysaccharides. The aim this review to summarize main secondary metabolites in tea plants, content distribution these compounds six different types organs plant were further investigated. application on food processing, cosmetics industry, pharmaceutical industry was reviewed study. With rapid advancements biotechnology sequencing technology, omics analyses, including genome, transcriptome, metabolome, used detect their molecular regulatory mechanisms plants. Numerous functional genes factors have been discovered, studied, applied improve Research advances, metabolites, applications, research, gene mining, are comprehensively here. Further exploration trends briefly described. This provides a reference for basic research