Tea Storage

Why to do we need more information on Chinese tea?

The American public is confused with the half trueinformation published in the civil media. One of the last items entitled "Soaked in Confusion" on green tea published in the Wall Street Journal (Monday, January 26, 2004, in the section of Personal Health) by Jennifer Saranow illustrates the confusion the readers of these items do facing. For example, the anticancer effects of green tea observed in the laboratories always are not reproductibles among the green human tea drinkers. Few editors, the authors or the scientists attempted to address this disagreement.

Chinese tea To summer introduces to the public American by the merchants of British tea and the Chinese restaurants, that are of ordinary worked ones by American Chinese of which the ancestors came from the towns of the province of the south of Guangdong, Taiwan and Hong Kong where most of the inhabitants always reject green tea as a drink. These descendants of cultivate of the workers of China of the south only skating rink oolong tea, As ordinarily served in the Chinese restaurants.

Consequently, the American Chinese tea The drinkers were not exposed to authentic green tea. All writings on green tea published in the United States puts newspapers are based on the news of occasion to the better one. The TeaForHealtha„c the mission is to disseminate scientific the news, based and reliable proofs to the consumers that are interested in to drink green tea as a conventional food for the health protection. The this is a tea green global movement for knowledge broadcasting inaugurated by a medical doctor with a bottom and more than 40 crosscultural years of experience in the medical practice in this country.

Which type of tea the Americans do drink now?

The British brought black tea and the Chinese restaurants brought oolong tea To America. Some ofthe oolong teas Are sold in the special stores of tea under the name of oolong green tea, or green half tea. No in the water to prepare drinks of tea, principally for the "detoxification" and in the religious or funeral ceremonies. The leaves fresh of pulled out tea always were used at least on the special occasions among the elite of intellect in the ANNOUNCEMENT of 1500, as paints in the poem writes on a Chinese of dynasty of classical Ming painting entitled "Drinking Tea" now exposed in the Museum of Palace, Peking.

As tea became a commodity to exchange, the it was necessary to preserve the quality of the leaves of tea fresh by a report heating and the drying process for the transportation and for the emmagasinage. The tea leaves must undergo a treatment of initial heat for the quality preservation. Now, we know that his goal was to inactivate the polyphenol oxidase in the tea leaves to stop the oxidation process to preserve the catechins of tea of antioxidant. The tea leaves that immediately were not treated would turn the chestnut, just as a cut apple in split undergoing when exposed bleaching to the air.

The brown leaves of tea were treated with the high temperature heating and supported in the cakes and the bricks as the salvage products, that were considered teas of low degree and especially were sold to the minority Chinese lives in the North or to the foreign merchants. Historically, the "tea" always referred itself to green tea in the environment Kingdom.