Introduction: Official exposure: The 3 black-listed teas are all inferior teas, are you still drinking them?
Some friends like to drink boiled water, while others prefer to add some tea leaves to the water. In fact, drinking more tea has many benefits. However, everyone needs to be carefully screened when choosing tea, otherwise it is easy to overturn and step on thunder. For example, the three blacklisted teas recently exposed are all inferior teas, and many people can easily buy them without knowing how to distinguish them.
Nowadays, the tea market is mixed, and moldy tea, pigmented tea, and expired tea, as the three major teas on the blacklist, are likely to be mistakenly purchased by everyone. After reading the following introduction about these three kinds of tea, maybe it can help you to keep your eyes open and effectively identify when you buy tea next time.
1. Moldy tea
Everyone knows that food cannot be eaten if it is moldy. Tea leaves are moldy. However, some unscrupulous merchants did not dispose of it, but after a series of chemical processing, packaged it into new tea just picked, and put it on the market for sale. You need to be careful to avoid buying moldy tea leaves, which are usually soft and cannot be easily broken. We can bend it a bit before buying, so that we can easily identify whether it is moldy tea.
2. Pigmented tea
Pigmented tea, as the name suggests, is to add dyes to the tea leaves, which will make the color of the tea leaves more vivid. Under normal circumstances, unscrupulous merchants will add pigments to refurbished tea that has been hoarded for a long time. After the tea has been left for a long time, it looks gray and even has some mildew on it. But by adding pigment, it can be sold on the market for the same price as new tea. It is also relatively simple to avoid buying pigmented tea, just rub it in your hand when picking tea leaves, and see if there is any discoloration on your fingers.
3. Expired tea
Expired tea refers to tea leaves that have expired and deteriorated and cannot be drunk. What many people don’t know is that tea leaves will also expire, and different varieties of tea have different shelf lives. So usually, tea should be stored in a cool place. The flavor and taste of expired tea will change greatly. If you want to judge whether the tea is expired, you must first observe its luster. If it’s dark and dark, it’s usually not fresh tea. The second step is to smell the smell. Usually expired tea leaves are accompanied by a rancid smell, while fresh tea leaves will smell a faint fragrance.
If you see the three types of inferior tea leaves in the above blacklist, try to stay away from them, because they not only have no pure tea flavor, but may even bring harm to the body damage on. Friends who like to drink tea should choose tea leaves from big brands or old brands as much as possible. After all, the brand reputation is still guaranteed to a certain extent. The following two kinds of tea are old brands, I don’t know if you have ever drunk them? Let’s take a look~
1. Keemun Black Tea
It belongs to premium tea and is one of the three major mountain teas in the world. In addition to the unique Keemun fragrance , the aftertaste still has a touch of pine wood fragrance. It comes from the Qimenyuan tea garden with a superior geographical location. It is made through 15 traditional processes, and no other harmful pigments are added in the whole process. The quality of the tea is strictly controlled in strict accordance with the food-grade quality inspection standards. Due to the geographical advantage where the tea grows, you can taste the rich pine wood aroma in one sip.
After brewing, there is no tea residue, the tea water is light golden yellow, and the tea leaves are very tender. Since the tea leaves are all individually packaged, it is convenient and elegant, and it also allows us to taste the taste of authentic black tea anytime, anywhere.
Second, Yunnan Pu’er
Pu’er tea contains a variety of active ingredients such as tea polyphenols and vitamin C, which can assist in the decomposition and digestion of fat, so everyone If the fairy also likes to drink tea, you can taste the Pu’er tea from Yunnan. The brand of this tea is an old brand, and the tea lovers of the older generation should all know its existence. It has a pure taste in the entrance, the effect of returning to Ganshengjin, the bottom of the cup is rich and long-lasting, and it is very resistant to foaming.
Nowadays, there are many kinds of desserts. When you eat some heavy or sweet food, you can accompany it with a cup of Pu-erh tea. This can not only help us lose weight better but also help us get rid of tiredness. Compared with the calorie matching of food and milk tea, we might as well replace the drink with Pu’er tea, so that when summer comes, we can still maintain a beautiful figure.
Drinking tea properly can not only change the monotony of drinking boiled water, but also have many benefits for our body. However, everyone should carefully distinguish when choosing tea. The three blacklisted teas should pay attention to avoid lightning. If you accidentally buy them, don’t drink them reluctantly.