You can't just make tea with hot water! South Korea, Japan and other places are popular in making tea with cold water. In Japan, herbal tea also has a proper term "cloud water tea".
First, the benefits of herbal tea
1, completely retaining beneficial substances.
Tea itself contains more than 700 kinds of nutrients, but after being brewed with hot water, many nutrients will be destroyed and lost instantly, which will reduce the substances with unique effects such as lowering blood sugar, resisting cancer, preventing hypertension and cerebral thrombosis in tea, while herbal tea can avoid the damage of water temperature to the cell structure of tea and completely retain the beneficial substances in tea.
2, the anti-cancer effect of lowering the four highs is outstanding.
Tea polyphenols are the general name of polyphenols rich in tea, which have been proved to have the effects of lowering blood sugar, lowering blood lipid, preventing hypertension, cerebral thrombosis, arteriosclerosis and cancer.
Tea pigment is an oxidized polymer of tea polyphenols, which can also prevent and treat diabetes to some extent like tea polyphenols.
Tea pigment also has the function of lowering cholesterol, and also has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on diabetic complications, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and arteriosclerosis.
3, does not affect sleep
Although drinking tea is good, it is easy to fall asleep at night. Caffeine in tea has a certain refreshing effect, which is an important reason why many people lose sleep at night after drinking tea.
When green tea is soaked in cold water for 4-8 hours, catechins beneficial to the body can be effectively soaked out, while caffeine that affects sleep is only below 1/2. This soaking method can reduce the release of caffeine without hurting the stomach or affecting sleep.
In addition, the bitterness of herbal tea is not as obvious as that of hot tea, because the released tannic acid is reduced.
Second, how to make herbal tea?
Cold tea making is to make tea with cold water, which can be cold boiled water, mineral water or pure water. The water temperature is normal temperature, and the mineral water-cooled bubble has the best taste. A good cup of herbal tea, without sugar, has natural sweetness and mellow taste.
3. What kind of tea is suitable for making cold tea?
After cold soaking, the efficacy of tea leaves has greatly increased, but the requirements for cold brewing tea are higher. It is best to choose new tea for cold soaking. Green tea, light fermented oolong tea, Baihao Yinzhen in white tea and Bai Mudan are all suitable for cold soaking.
Black tea, Tieguanyin tea and Pu 'er tea are highly fermented, so they are not suitable for cold soaking and taste bitter and tasteless.
Four or three steps to make healthy herbal tea.
1. Prepare tea, cold boiled water (or mineral water), glasses and other containers.
2. The ratio of water to tea is about 50 ml to 1 g, which has the best taste, but it can be increased or decreased according to your own taste.
3. After standing at room temperature for 2-6 hours, the tea soup can be poured out for drinking. Tea leaves taste sweet and delicious (or put them in the refrigerator after filtering). Green tea takes a short time to taste in 2 hours, while oolong tea and white tea take a long time.
After cold soaking, tea has great effects of lowering blood fat, blood pressure, blood sugar, uric acid, protecting blood vessels and preventing cancer, and easily removes all obstacles to the health of middle-aged and elderly people. Of course, everyone's drinking habits are different and may not be suitable for everyone. If you are interested, try this new drinking method.