The right brewing tea is better in taste, but for those who don't know much about tea, they will feel tasteless if they drink it at will. So in order to make us drink better tea, how can we brew the benefits of Pu'er pressed tea? What are the benefits of Pu'er pressed tea and raw tea?
1、 Brewing water and temperature
Choose mineral water or purified water, and the water temperature is 90oc-100oc boiling water.
2、 Selection of brewing apparatus
First of all, Zisha pot: Zisha pot is more suitable for brewing Pu'er tea.
Secondly, cover bowl and cup: it is recommended to use porcelain cover bowl. The cover bowl is elegant and convenient. It can be regarded as the selection of utensils and cups for brewing Pu'er tea. It is better to choose larger ones.
The basic steps of brewing raw Pu'er tea are as follows:
1. Preparation: prepare tea set and Pu'er tea.
2. Amount of tea: gently pry the tea cake with a tea knife along the layer, and the amount of tea can be determined according to the number of tea drinkers. If the number of people is small, 8-10 grams of Pu'er tea can be taken, and 15-20 grams of Pu'er tea can be taken for more people.
3. Teaware: put boiling water into the teaware to warm the teapot and the cup, and wash the teaware at the same time（ Here's a trick. Before making tea, scald the cup / teapot with hot water, pour out the hot water and put the tea in it for 3 seconds. The tea will be more fragrant.)
4. Wake up tea: put the tea into a covered bowl, then pour in hot water (in addition to wake up the tea, it also has the effect of improving the tea cleanliness) and then pour it out.
5. Moisten the tea: pour boiling water into the covered bowl and quickly remove to wake up the tea.
6. Brewing time: master the brewing time according to the actual situation. The first 10 seconds out of the soup, the second 15 seconds out of the soup, until five bubbles, the appropriate extension of brewing time, but the longest recommended not more than 30 seconds Oh, generally can soak about 15 bubbles, according to personal preferences to adjust.
7. Divide the tea: pour the tea soup in the pot into a fair cup, keep the tea soup uniform, and then divide it into small cups.
Taboo of Pu'er tea drinking:
It is not suitable to drink Pu'er tea during menstruation
Women's menstrual blood will take away part of the iron, at this time should add more iron containing foods, such as spinach, apples, grapes and so on. However, tea contains as much as 30% to 50% tannic acid, which will hinder the absorption and utilization of iron in intestinal mucosa. It is very easy to combine with iron in food or blood tonic drugs in the intestinal tract to produce precipitation. Therefore, it is best not to drink Pu'er tea.
Avoid using tea to deliver medicine
Tannin and theophylline in tea can react with some drugs. Therefore, when taking hypnotic and sedative drugs, and drugs containing iron and protein, do not take them with tea, so as not to affect the efficacy. Traditional Chinese medicine ginseng, dangshen, Yuanhu, Datura stramonium, Achyranthes bidentata, ephedra, uncaria, Coptis should not be mixed with tea. Generally speaking, it is not suitable to drink tea within 2 hours.
Avoid bad Pu'er tea and toudao tea
Improper storage of tea, easy to mildew due to moisture absorption, deterioration of tea contains a lot of harmful substances and bacteria, is absolutely not drinkable. In addition, the current tea in the process of planting, processing and packaging will inevitably be polluted by pesticides, chemical fertilizers, dust and so on. In fact, toudao tea is the water for washing tea. It should be poured out as soon as possible before adding water, so that the tea can be drunk.
Avoid overnight Pu'er tea:
The best way to drink tea is to soak and drink it now, because the tea will not only lose vitamins and other nutrients, but also be easy to sour and deteriorate and get sick after drinking it for a long time.
Drinking overnight Pu'er tea will not cause cancer, but from the perspective of nutrition and health, after brewing tea for a long time, vitamin C and other nutrients in tea soup will gradually oxidize and decrease. In addition, the protein and sugar in tea are the culture medium of bacteria and mold. The tea soup is not strictly sterilized, and it is easy to breed mold and bacteria, which will lead to the deterioration of overnight Pu'er tea soup. The deteriorated tea soup will affect our health and is not suitable for drinking.
Avoid drinking Pu'er tea before going to bed
It's better not to drink tea within 2 hours before going to bed. Drinking tea will excite the spirit, affect the sleep quality, and even lead to insomnia. Especially for the newly picked green tea, the nerves are easily excited after drinking, and insomnia is more serious.
People with heart disease should not drink Pu'er tea
Drinking too much tea, will make the heart beat faster, some can also appear arrhythmia. In addition, people with poor liver function should also avoid drinking Pu'er tea. The vast majority of caffeine is metabolized by the liver. Drinking tea for people with poor liver function will increase the burden on the liver.
Effect of raw Pu'er tea:
1. After each meal, a cup of raw Pu'er tea can effectively stimulate metabolism, accelerate fat decomposition, so as to achieve the effect of weight loss. So raw Pu'er tea is also a good choice for girls who want to lose weight.
2. Like green tea, untransformed raw tea has a certain stimulating effect on the stomach. It has more active ingredients and can clean up the intestines. It has good curative effect on constipation friends.
3. Raw Pu'er tea did not undergo artificial rapid fermentation, which preserved more quality characteristics of sun dried green Mao tea. Its aroma is lotus or grass in the fragrance, with rich taste and golden yellow tea soup. It is a good choice for tea lovers.