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Agronomists Borrowed Oolong's Trade Secret, Not for Tea
A 2026 peer-reviewed study took the shaking-and-withering step that makes oolong oolong and ran it on tobacco leaf instead. The tobacco came out smelling less like itself and more like the process that shaped it.
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Two Reactions Start When the Leaf Is Bruised, Not One
Shaking bruises the leaf once, but it starts two separate reactions on two different substrates. One reddens the edge. The other, mapped only in the last few years, manufactures the floral scent.