A bush tea product is provided in which a bush tea prepared in substantially conventional manner by chopping harvested tea； subjecting the tea to wetting, fermenting and drying, optionally removing oversized particles and so-called dust as may be necessary or required and subjecting the tea to sterilisation has included therein at least 10 percent by weight of bush tea in a pulverised form resulting from a mechanical pulverising action performed thereon. Preferably, all of the bush tea present is in a pulverised form although as an alternative, a proportion of normal bush tea product is admixed with the pulverised bush tea. Typically, at least 50 percent by weight of the pulverised tea has a particle size selected to pass a 0.5 millimetre mesh screen and at least 10 percent by weight is in powder form that passes a 0.15 millimetre mesh screen.
