How to identify the flavor ingredients in tea?

Fragrant tea contains flavor ingredients, how to distinguish the flavor components in tea leaves? Some unscrupulous merchants not only add flavor, but also some unscrupulous merchants not only add flavor, but also some have pesticide residues.

If you have already bought tea and want to identify whether the flavor has been added, then there are still methods, so take Tieguanyin as an example to explain.

The first point, because of the special processing technology of Tieguanyin, the fragrance of Tieguanyin in dry tea is not high, if you hold a handful of Tieguanyin and put it under the nose to smell, the aroma is quiet and natural, then it is generally not added, on the contrary, if the fragrance of dry tea is strong and tangy, and the fragrance does not disperse in the nose for a long time, then the possibility of adding flavor is very high.

The second point is that you can knead the tea leaves with your hands, and if there will be some powder or color attached to the palm of your hand, then some additives are also added.

The third point is that after brewing with 80 degrees of water, the tea soup is turbid, or the aroma is very high, then the flavor is basically added. Because Tieguanyin must be brewed with water above 95 degrees, the aroma and taste will come out, and most of the flavors have quickly dissolved into incense at a water temperature of 80 degrees.

Fourth, after brewing, if the aroma of each brew of tea declines quickly, and the aroma of the tea lacks change, even when brewing to the third brew, there is no aroma of tea, and it may be that the flavor is added.

Fifth, after the tea is drunk, you don't need to wash the cup, overnight, the next morning you will find that there will be a thick layer of tea stains in the teacup, if the color of the tea stains is light yellow, dark yellow, orange and other yellow-orange colors can mean that the tea does not contain any additives, on the contrary, if the tea stains show other colors such as light green, dark green, dark green, etc., it means that the tea may contain additives.

The fragrance of the tea itself is different from the flavor of the flavor, but it is easy to distinguish between the fragrance of the tea itself and the taste of the essence, but it is easy to distinguish it from those who often drink tea.

Normally, tea will not add flavors, because it is not easy to have the right flavors. The most direct way to distinguish whether there is flavor or not is to start from the tea brewing, and the flavor change of the three brews will be very obvious (mainly because the aroma disappears quickly).

Summary. First: tea flavor, black tea flavor, oolong tea flavor, green tea flavor, winter melon tea flavor, jasmine tea flavor, herbal tea flavor.

Second: fruit flavor strawberry flavor, mango flavor, peach flavor, lychee flavor, watermelon flavor, passion fruit flavor, guava flavor, kumquat flavor, lemon flavor, cranberry flavor, red raspberry flavor, apple flavor, sugarcane flavor, blueberry flavor, grapefruit flavor, etc.

First: tea flavor, black tea flavor, oolong tea flavor, green tea flavor, winter melon tea flavor, jasmine tea flavor, herbal tea flavor. Second:

Fruit flavor imitation flavor strawberry flavor, mango flavor, peach flavor, lychee flavor, watermelon flavor, passion fruit flavor, guava flavor, kumquat flavor, lemon flavor, cranberry flavor, mangrove potato flavor, apple flavor, sugarcane flavor, blueberry flavor, grapefruit flavor, etc.

In life, the tea drinks we drink usually include Yanli black tea, oolong tea, green tea, winter melon tea, jasmine tea, and herbal tea. However, with our pursuit of taste, there are more and more tea drinks, and now there are a variety of more and more novel and delicious fruit-flavored tea drinks, such as peach oolong tea drink, Minxiang lemon black tea drink, kumquat winter melon drink, jasmine lychee drink, etc.

Some will have, and the way to distinguish it is: tea with flavor is brewed only 2 to 3 times and has no taste, but tea without flavor can be brewed many times and still taste.

Some tea leaves have. For example, some Tieguanyin.

If you want to distinguish it, you mainly rely on smell, if you feel that the fragrance is unnatural, it is best not to buy. If you can make the soup, you will be more sure.

How to tell if tea has added flavor? No one in the industry tells you, and few people know.

How to tell if there is any added flavor in the tea:

1.It can be distinguished by smelling the taste of dry tea, and the fragrance of dry tea is natural and generally will not be added. If it is fragrant and the taste is a bit special, it is easy to choke, so be careful.

2.Touch the tea leaves with your hands, then pinch or rub them to see if they will be stained.

3.Brew with boiling water, and then smell the aroma of the lid, if the aroma is elegant, it is generally tea, if the aroma is strong, the taste is not pure, you should pay attention.

4.Continue to add water and brew to see if the tea soup is different, as well as the change in aroma, you can also see the clues.

Dangers of flavored tea:

Flavors are chemicals, and when you drink them, they will first affect your digestive system.

Drinking tea with poor quality or flavor for a long time will reduce resistance and endanger health.

Precautions: Pay attention to the identification of tea leaves to prevent shoddy tea. Do not buy tea with flavors, and when you encounter illegal traders, you must protect your rights in a timely manner, report and complain, and protect your own interests.

Nowadays, many jasmine tea teas on the market are added with jasmine flavor, and it is not easy to buy really good smoked flower tea without jasmine flavor.

You can crush the tea leaves with your hands, and smell it with your nose if it is not particularly fragrant, and if it is too fragrant, it proves that there is added flavor.

It can be distinguished by smelling the taste of dry tea, which is fragrant and natural and generally not added. If it is fragrant and the taste is a bit special, it is easy to choke, so be careful.

After adding flavor to the tea, there is a great taste, not the fragrance of the tea itself, and you can choose the tea with more money, and you get what you pay for.

1. Smell the dry fragrance.

Because of the special processing technology of tea, the fragrance of dry tea is not high, if you hold a handful of dry tea and put it under your nose to smell, the aroma is quiet and natural, then it is generally not added; On the other hand, if the aroma of dry tea is strong and lingers in the nose for a long time, then there is a high possibility that flavor will be added.

2. Brew at low temperature and smell the fragrance.

After brewing with 80 degrees of water, the tea soup is turbid, or the aroma is very high, then it is possible that the flavor has been added. Because most of the dry tea is brewed with water above 95 degrees, the aroma and taste will come out, and most of the flavors have quickly dissolved into the fragrance at a water temperature of 80 degrees.

3. Observe the durability of tea aroma.

After brewing, if the aroma of each brew of tea declines quickly, and the aroma of the tea lacks change, or even when brewing to the third brew, there is no aroma of tea, which may be the addition of flavor.

It smells very good, but it doesn't have the aroma of tea when it is brewed, which suggests that you may have bought "flavored tea". Especially in the season when spring tea is on the market, flavor tea is more common.

How to tell if tea has added flavor? No one in the industry tells you, and few people know.

If you add flavor, just soak it in boiling water and you will know, if any. The tea leaves will look like there is a lot of tea foam. If there is not a lot of tea foam, it means that there is no flavor.

Now it is true that some unscrupulous merchants add flavors to shoddy. My method is to smell first, whether the aroma of dry tea is normal, and it is generally a relatively light tea fragrance. The most important thing is that after brewing, it is very obvious whether the aroma of the tea in the first and second and third courses has weakened a lot.

Tea leaves with added flavors can't run three or five dishes, and the taste is completely lost].

If you suspect that there is a flavor added to the tea, you can use the brewing method to distinguish it: put the tea leaves in a cup, add one-fifth of the boiling water in the teacup, smell the tea when the tea is fragrant, if there is a pungent and strong miscellaneous smell, it is possible that the flavor has been added. If brewed to the first.

In the second or third time, there is no aroma of tea, and it may be that the flavor is added.

If you suspect that there is a flavor added to the tea, you can use the brewing method to distinguish it: put the tea leaves in a cup, add one-fifth of the boiling water in the teacup, smell the tea when the tea is fragrant, if there is a pungent and strong miscellaneous smell, it is possible that the flavor has been added.

What are the characteristics of flavored tea?

Dry tea with a strong aroma:

The dry aroma of real tea is not high, hold a handful of dry tea and put it under the nose to smell, the aroma is quiet and natural; Conversely, if the aroma of dry tea is strong and tangy, then there is a high probability that flavors will be added.

After brewing with warm water, the tea soup is turbid, or the aroma is very high, and it is very likely that the flavor is added. Normal tea generally needs more than 80 to brew the fragrance.

Poor persistence of tea aroma:

After brewing, if the aroma of each brew of tea declines quickly, and the aroma of the tea lacks change, or even when brewing to the third brew, there is no aroma, and it is very likely that the flavor is added.

How to distinguish flavor tea?

Put the paper towel into the tea caddy, close the lid, leave it for half an hour to an hour and then take it out.

Due to the strong adsorption capacity of paper towels on flavors, if the paper towels have the peculiar smell of chemical flavors, they can be identified as flavor tea, and the longer the sealing time, the stronger the flavor taste. And for tea leaves without added flavors, paper towels have the same taste as tea.

If you want to shorten the judgment time, you can use the vapor adsorption method.

Take a handful of tea leaves and put them in a flat-mouth glass to brew with hot water, cover the mouth of the cup with a paper towel, take off the paper towel and cool it after about a minute, and then smell whether the aroma is attached. Flavor tea generally contains a solid fragrance agent, and the pungent flavor will adhere to the paper towel with the steam when heated, and it is not easy to disperse.

This method can also be applied to other foods.

Tea aroma is the natural flavoring agent of tea, which makes us drink more sweet and delicious. Artificially added flavors will always have flaws, as long as you feel them with your heart, you can still distinguish them. The flavor tea on the market is mainly divided into the following types:

1. Inferior tea leaves are brewed well.

In the poor quality tea, add flavor to make the tea more full, and then pass off as high-grade tea**; This kind of flavored tea is difficult to distinguish, but it is also a common means for unscrupulous merchants; Because the tea itself is **, and there is no big defect in quality, consumers are easily deceived.

2. Scraps tea residue.

Tea residue is the scraps left in the process of tea processing, that is, the edges and feet like cloth, such tea is often abandoned by people, but some people will prefer such a taste, which is a burnt taste. Because of the small size of the tea residue, it is difficult to grasp the heat of the roasted tea, and after the flavor of this tea residue is added, the taste will be stronger, so many small restaurants will choose such a tea residue to encourage soaking water drinking. In fact, this kind of tea, long-term drinking is still very harmful to health.

3. Spoiled tea leaves.

Many unscrupulous merchants will add some flavors to some aged tea and spoiled tea, and then circulate them as high-grade tea to enter the market; If consumers accidentally buy this kind of flavor tea and drink it for a long time, it will inevitably be harmful to their health. FYI.

Flavor tea refers to the addition of flavor to tea leaves and leaves, which is harmful to the human body when drunk. There are mainly the following types of flavored teas on the market.

Inferior tea is shoddy.

Adding flavor to poor-quality tea leaves makes them smell compelling, and sells them as high-grade tea. This flavor tea is difficult to distinguish, which is the most common means of unscrupulous merchants. Since the tea itself is **, the average consumer is easily deceived.

Scraps tea grounds.

Tea residue is the leftover material left over from the tea processing process, and tea merchants generally do not drink it. But there are also people who like this taste and think that the taste of tea grounds is strong. Actually, it's not tea, it's burnt.

Because of the small size of the tea residue, it is difficult to grasp the heat of the roasted tea. This tea residue has a stronger flavor when added to the flavor, and many small restaurants often buy this tea residue in order to save money, brew it into free tea and provide it to customers. This kind of tea is very harmful to the human body when drunk for a long time.

Spoiled tea leaves. Unscrupulous merchants add flavors to aged tea and spoiled tea, and package them into tea leaves to enter the market. Consumers accidentally bought this kind of flavored tea and went back, and drinking it was extremely harmful to the body.

The food flavor itself is also self-limiting, a little bit will produce a great aroma, if you put too much, the taste will be very pungent, both a waste of cost and no benefit. Therefore, as long as the food flavor is added in accordance with the standards and requirements stipulated by the state, it will not cause harm to the body, and everyone can drink tea with confidence and enjoy the fragrance brought by tea. Tea flavor is basically harmless to the human body, but when added to tea, it improves the fragrance of tea.

Although the food flavor is very harmful to the human body or not, but the addition of tea violates the essence of tea itself as a traditional original health drink. China has been a big tea-producing country since ancient times, with many varieties and categories, and the tea itself has formed different colors, aromas and tastes due to different processing techniques. These different "color and aroma" are the biggest feature of their respective teas, and they do not need to be enhanced by adding flavors and pigments.

However, the market is still full of unscrupulous traders who add various pigments and flavors to the tea in order to achieve the effect of both color and flavor, so as to obtain high returns. Although it is said that we ordinary people are unlikely to have direct contact with the raw material forms of flavors and pigments, and there is not much relevant knowledge background to support it. However, to identify whether additives such as pigments and flavors are added to tea, we still have some methods and tricks.