Sunday, May 24, 2009

Other Type of Tea


Herbal teas

Herbal teas produced from flowers, bark and seeds. Since do not contain the plant Camellia sinensis, in its composition do not have caffeine. This makes them a suitable drink for children and adults at any time of day. During preparations, herbal tea should be allowed longer to hot water, and filtering after ten minutes.


Fruit teas

Fruit teas produced from flowers, seeds, bark and various fruits. Since newspapers do not contain the plant Camellia sinensis, in their composition is not caffeine. This makes them a suitable drink for children and adults at any time of day. During preparations, fruit tea should be allowed longer to hot water, and filtering after ten minutes. Can you drink and completely cold.


Oolong tea

Somewhere halfway between red and green is Oolong tea. This half fermenting tea is produced mainly in China and Taiwan. Tea leaves should not be too young or too old, and immediately after pick exhibited direct sunlight and allow it to fade. So tender leaves shaking in bamboo baskets while their peaks do not shoot. After that, the tea is drought in the shade. Process shaking repeatedly and drying is repeated several times, whereby contusion margins of leaves due to fermentation become red, while the central part of leaves remain green. The procedure is repeated until you fermenting 20% of list, the so-called green Oolong, or 60%, for classic Oolong tea. When you reached the desired level of fermentation, the process is immediately stopped annealing sheets at high temperature. Due to the positive effect on metabolism, this type of tea is known as "aromatic killer fat".

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