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...quality. The grades fall into four basic groups: whole leaf, broken leaf, fannings, and dust. Fannings consists of even smaller leaf sizes than the brokens.

...[Crush, Tear, Curl]]'') or ''orthodox.'' The CTC method produces leaves of fannings or dust grades that are commonly used in [[tea bag]]s and are processed by ...''sorted'' into ''grades'' according to their sizes (whole leaf, brokens, fannings and dust), usually with the use of sieves. The tea could be further ''sub-g

...g may also be tasted, which can detract from the tea's own flavor. Because fannings and dust are a lower quality of the tea to begin with, the tea found in tea