Friday, May 15, 2009

An Ancient Culture Of China- CHINESE TEA


(I would like to share a photo which take from the "HangZhou dragonwell tea")

Tea was considered an elixir in ancient China.Tea has become a part of chinese culture nowadays.Almost all chinese around the world are like to drink chinese tea when they are having their meals. But most of us would not know what are actually ingredients content of the chinese tea.In fact, most of the ingredients of chinese tea have a lot of benifits to our health.

below here are some of the ingredients that can be found in chinese tea:

i) Caffeine
-It has stimulating property and removes mental fatigue.

ii)Tea fibre (from leaf's cell wall)
-prevents the penetration of hydrolyzing enzymes in human body.

iii)Carbohydrates (eg.glucose, fructose, sucrose)
-improve the flavour of the tea

iv)Amino acids(eg. Aspartic, glutamic)
-for aroma of tea.

v)Lipids and fatty acids

vi)Organic acids
-improve quality of tea.

According to research, tea contains more than 300 chemical substances.By drinking tea it can improve our immune system, lowering our blood chorestrol,prevent tooth decay,freshen breath, prevent arteriosclerosis(hearth stuck) and etc....

sources:www.fmltea.com

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1 comment:

  1. Awww...a photo of Hangzhou's tea-producing tourist site...I have fond memories of that. Been to Hangzhou before as my 2nd honeymoon...that was in 2007. Will go on tour to China again when I have more money and when my child is much older. ^ ^

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