Basic 4 steps to identify pure & nature quality tea vs. flavored tea

p_20161113_163902There are four basic steps to identify the tea you bought is flavored or nature pure quality tea:

  • The nature and pure quality tea does not have very strong aroma from dried leaf, the flavor will be transformed with the aging process.  On the contrary, the aroma from flavored tea will stay strong and unchanged.
  • Is there powder if rubbing the dried leaves.  If yes, then definitely it has been blended with extra additives or coloring
  • If the flavor is very strong and being quickly released with the water temperature higher than 80C, then the chance of being flavored tea is big.
  • If the flavor and taste dropped very fast after the first infusion, otherwise the taste starting from the 2nd infusion is very different from the 1st infusion, then the chance that tea you bought is flavored tea definitely is very big.
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By Mei Lan Hsiao

Even though her family has nothing to do with tea, but she learnt the importance of consuming tea correctly in daily healthy diet based on the Chinese traditional medicine principles in Yin-Yang and 5 elements from her family when she was very young. She entered the tea learning in Taiwan since 1985, left her root because of marriage in 1991 helped her to expand her learning from original inward-out views to 360 degree. She started to promote the authentic knowledge about tea and wisdom in Chinese tea culture in Belgium since 1995. Tea has always been and will continue be her best teacher. In front of Nature and Tea, she remains as an innocent child, a life-time learning student.

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