How many types of reprocessed tea are there?

Reprocessed tea refers to tea that is reprocessed by certain means using the six basic tea types as raw materials. It mainly includes scented tea, pressed tea, extracted tea, fruity tea, medicinal health tea and tea-containing beverages.

Scented tea is also known as smoked flower tea, fragrant flower tea, and fragrant tablets. It is made from green tea, black tea, oolong tea and edible and fragrant flowers as raw materials, and is made by a cellar-making process. In fact, the practice of adding spices or fragrant flowers to tea has been around since ancient times, and it is an original creation in China. Cai Xiang of the Northern Song Dynasty mentioned spiced tea in "Tea Records": "Tea has a real fragrance, and those who pay tribute slightly use borneol and ointment to help its fragrance." Shi Yue's "Buyue·Jasmine" lyrics in the Southern Song Dynasty It records the history of using jasmine hojicha at that time: "It was produced by Caililing table...the ancients used this flower to melt tea." According to the records in "Tea Book" written by Gu Yuanqing in the Ming Dynasty, the flower that could be used for tea making at that time was osmanthus. , jasmine, rose, rose, orchid, gardenia, woodsy, plum blossom and more than ten kinds, and the production technology of scented tea has basically matured.

During the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty (1851-1861), people began to make scented tea on a large scale. By the 1890s, the production of scented tea was very common. Now, the types of scented tea are more abundant than before, and new varieties such as chrysanthemum tea, nasturtium tea, lily tea, thousand day black tea, lantern flower tea, roselle tea, white orchid tea, and pearl orchid tea have appeared.

According to the variety of flowers used, scented tea can be generally divided into sub-categories such as jasmine tea, magnolia tea, pearl orchid tea, etc. Each sub-category is divided into special grade, first-grade, first-grade, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4, Level 5, Level 6 (some do not have Level 6). The basic process of scented tea is: tea blank refire, flower base, smoked and combined, through flower heat dissipation, blooming, refire, jacquard, uniform stacking and boxing, etc. Scented tea is loved by people for its fragrant aroma, health care and long-lasting storage.

The raw materials and processing techniques of pressed tea have changed greatly over time compared to the past. The ancient pressed tea is made by steaming, grinding, pressing and drying the fresh leaves of the tea tree, such as the steamed green tea cake in the Tang Dynasty and the dragon and phoenix group tea in the Song Dynasty. However, modern pressed tea is made by reprocessing black tea, green tea, and rough-processed black tea, and autoclaving it, such as Yunnan Tuocha and Hunan brick tea.

The production method of extracted tea is to extract the water-soluble matter in the finished tea with hot water, and filter out the tea residue. If the remaining tea soup is directly put into bottles or cans, it can be made into liquid "canned beverage tea"; if only the remaining tea soup is concentrated, it can be made into "concentrated tea"; if the remaining tea soup is concentrated, After drying, a solid "instant tea" can be made. China's instant tea mainly includes instant black tea, instant green tea, instant oolong tea, instant health care tea, etc.

Fruit-flavored tea is made from black tea, green tea extract and fruit juice as the main raw materials, adding sugar and natural flavors, and modulated by scientific methods. Such as lemon tea, fresh orange juice tea, banana tea, strawberry tea, apple tea, etc. This new-flavored beverage is sweet, sour, sweet and delicious, and has the effect of refreshing and quenching thirst. It is a drink suitable for all ages.

Medicinal health tea focuses on health care and is made by adding certain Chinese herbal medicines or foods to tea leaves. Such as warm tea made of black tea with ginger, licorice and honey, herbal tea made of oolong tea and honeysuckle, Huoxiang tea juice for removing bad breath, Kuding tea for lowering blood lipids, barley tea for weight loss, refreshing mint tea, tonic Cordyceps sinensis tea . Today, health tea, like fruit-flavored tea, is loved by more and more people.

Tea-containing beverages can be made by adding tea juice to beverages. Common ones include mixing chrysanthemum, sweet-scented osmanthus, and jasmine with tea, adding milk, peanuts, and walnuts to black tea, and adding sugar to tea leaves.

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