MAOFENG

Maofeng is very delicate in picking, and the special-grade tea is picked from Qingming Festival to Guyu. The picking standard is based on the first buds and leaves. The picked buds and leaves must be selected and made on the same day.

Maofeng finished tea has a thin, flat and slightly curly shape, like a bird's tongue, with exposed pekoe. It is ivory-like in color, yellow-green and oily, with golden fish leaves (commonly known as tea slips). After brewing, the mist will condense on top, and the fragrance will be refreshing. The taste is rich and mellow, the tea soup is clear, the bottom of the leaves is bright, and the flowers are tender and even.

Green tea is a non-fermented tea. Due to its characteristics, it retains more of the natural substances in the fresh leaves. Among them, tea polyphenols and caffeine retain more than 85% of the fresh leaves, and chlorophyll retains about 50%, with less vitamin loss, thus forming the characteristics of green tea: "clear soup, green leaves, strong astringent taste". It has special effects on anti-aging, anti-cancer, anti-cancer, sterilization, anti-inflammatory, etc., which are beyond the reach of fermented teas.

 

Regular drinking is good for the body. The main benefits are:
1. Promote blood circulation: It has certain benefits in promoting blood circulation, lowering cholesterol, increasing capillary elasticity, and enhancing blood anticoagulation;
2. Enhance thinking ability: Mental workers can improve their brain agility, keep their minds clear and full of energy, and enhance their thinking ability, judgment ability and memory;
3. Reduce the harm of harmful substances: Workers who are often exposed to toxic substances can choose green tea as a labor protection drink;
4. Helps lower blood sugar: Diabetic patients are generally advised to drink more green tea;
5. Helps prevent cancer: The tea polyphenols contained in green tea can destroy cancer cells. Middle-aged and elderly people drinking green tea also have anti-cancer and anti-cancer effects.
6. Prevent various diseases: Green tea contains a large amount of vitamin C and tea polyphenols, which have strong effects on inhibiting bacterial growth and reproduction, resisting radiation, preventing vascular sclerosis, lowering blood lipids and increasing white blood cells; people with cholecystitis, cholecystitis, Patients with prostatitis, arthritis, hypertension, heart disease, neurasthenia and other diseases, as well as people who have been exposed to radiation for a long time, are advised to drink green tea.

 

BREWING SUGGESTION

Temperature — 90-95°C
Weight — 4 / 6g
Water — 30% / 40%
Brews — use the swirling water injection method. First, use the swirling brewing method to pour 30% to 40% of the water in each bowl in counterclockwise order, and then let it sit for 2 to 3 minutes.

 

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