How to identify good tea

Drinking tea is a very popular way of maintaining health in life, because tea has very high nutritional value and has health-preserving effects. For people with poor health, drinking tea regularly can significantly improve immunity. There are many types of tea in life. If people don’t understand tea, it is easy to buy some inferior tea. Let’s take a look at some ways to identify good tea. Those who are interested can find out more.

There are many types of tea, which are mainly divided into six categories: red, green, yellow, white, black and oolong. After consumers choose the right tea, they should pay attention to identifying the quality of the tea. They can identify it from the shape, color, aroma of dry tea, etc. If conditions permit, they can also brew it, smell its aroma, taste its flavor, observe the color of the tea soup and the tenderness and color of the tea dregs.

⑴Color. Including the color of the appearance and the color of the soup. The new tea looks dry, hard and loose, with a fresh color, generally a light green. Old tea leaves are tight, dark and soft. When purchasing tea, the color should be pure and lustrous, while mixed and dark colors are inferior. The color of tea soup should be bright and clear, which is good, while dark and deep is bad.

⑵Fragrant. Good quality tea usually has a pure aroma that is refreshing. If the tea has a weak aroma or no aroma at all, or has a strange smell, it is not a good tea. For example, jasmine tea is loved by many consumers. This tea has a strong jasmine fragrance. If there is no such aroma or there are other smells, it means that the jasmine tea is of poor quality.

⑶Taste. Refers to the taste of tea. The soup of new tea is clear and has a strong aroma, while the soup of old tea turns brown and has a weak aroma. As for green tea and black tea, good quality green tea tastes slightly bitter, but feels fresh and sweet after drinking, and the aftertaste becomes stronger as time goes by. If it has a strong bitter taste and less sweetness, it is inferior tea. The best taste of black tea is sweet, while bitterness is inferior.

⑷ shape. Refers to the appearance of tea leaves. Each famous tea has its own appearance characteristics, in various shapes and forms. Different varieties have different identification methods: some varieties depend on the amount of fuzz, the more the better, the less the worse; some varieties depend on the tightness of the strips, the tighter the better, the looser the worse. Good quality tea should have a uniform appearance and contain few broken tea leaves and impurities.