The quality of a tea, tea customers usually from these four aspects to identify: taste, soup color, smell and leaf bottom, so the tea black heart business will focus on these four aspects.
Don't think that it is the current tea merchants who have lost their conscience, in fact, in the Guangxu years, there are some disgraceful things recorded in the tea industry. An official in charge of the tea district at that time wrote this:
"Tea is made with talcum powder, making it dark and dark... In addition to dyeing, add talc, white wax and other things, orthotherapy, brown luster, pounds and win."
Well, to get into the point, let's start with the "pigment tea" in the hard-hit area.
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As early as June 2005, the tea industry exploded a large melon, a kind of biluochun that was added with the industrial pigment "lead chrome green", and quietly flowed into the market.
Lead chrome green is also known as "fine art green", this thing is mainly used to produce paints, coatings and plastics and other industrial environmental protection products, is a solid industrial pigment, it looks like this:
This color looks crazy
In order to improve the appearance of some black-hearted merchants, but also in order to use the old tea to pass off as new tea, they will add this pigment green; most of the added tea leaves are imitated into the new "Biluochun" and "Longjing".
In order to give tea "beauty", they are doing everything they can, in addition to the use of lead chromium green, there are "chlorophyll", "germinator" and so on, is also a commonly used additive. The tea leaves that have added these things, the appearance looks bright green, the color is full, some new tea customers do not understand the reason, think that the green tea looks the more green the better, which just happens to be in the "black heart set".
In addition to green, there are also other colors such as lemon yellow, sunset yellow, carmine, etc., which are also commonly used. In general, those loose teas that look very good and have a very low price are ninety percent of the pigment tea that has not run.
I have seen this kind of pigmented tea in the tea market, and my fingers are inserted into the loose tea, and I gently rub the tea leaves, and my fingers obviously have traces of dyeing. We don't go around the bend with him, just say "Boss, you are coloring tea."
The boss is also thick-skinned enough, and he admitted it at the moment, but he has another statement: "This is a food additive, the dosage is qualified by the national inspection, it will not bring harm to the body, we also drink this"
Can be pulled down, about the production of tea, China's relevant laws clearly stipulate that tea is not allowed to be colored, nor can any non-tea substances be added.
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Flower tea is the hardest hit area of flavor tea, China in May 24, 2015 promulgated the "National Standard for Food Safety Food Additives Use Standards" Table B.1, has been included in the "list of foods that must not add food spices and flavors", but some black businessmen can not stand the risk for the sake of profit.
Generally speaking, flower tea is made by weaving, that is, the tea blank is mixed with the freshly picked flowers, the tea blank absorbs the fragrance, and the tea fragrance and the floral fragrance are finally integrated. The production process is time-consuming and costly. This has led some unscrupulous businessmen to take a "shortcut" by using low-quality tea scraps, which are added with flavors and colors, which greatly reduce costs.
For example, the jasmine tea we often drink, if it is brewed with warm water, it can also brew out the fragrance, and the soup color is turbid, which is basically the addition of jasmine essence.
These two cups of tea, can you see which cup is "flavor tea"
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Comparatively speaking, this tea is considered to be "conscience production", after all, it is added with saccharin, and it will have a feeling of sweetness when drinking. However, the real good tea, in the process of roasting tea does not need to add anything at all, good tea will only be fried more and more oily and shiny.
Only those inferior teas, especially scraps, need to add saccharin to increase the color in the process of stir-frying; this kind of tea is generally used inferior tea or ordinary tea to impersonate high-grade tea, so that you spend Cadillac's money, but what you buy back is the Chang'an Golden Cup.
How "explosive" is the huge profit in this? Try to play your imagination and don't limit it. As far as I know, a tea owner who is bent on selling these fake tea leaves is only three years, four suites in Kunming. Of course, the Heavenly Dao is good for reincarnation, and who has the heavens spared, he is still eating prison meals.
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Refurbished tea is not a term in tea science, but belongs to a market concept, refurbished tea is a big concept, strictly speaking, like the above mentioned "pigment tea", "flavor tea", "saccharin tea" can also be classified as refurbished tea.
Renovated tea, the simple understanding is to reprocess the old tea of the next year, impersonating the newly listed tea this year, when the general spring tea is listed, a large number of renovated tea will emerge.
When we say spring tea, we mean the first new shoots that sprout in the spring after winter. The leaf flesh of spring tea is thick, the taste is tender, with the breath of spring, and the slight cold of winter snow remains, a mouthful of spring tea soup underwater belly, suddenly feel the birds and flowers in the abdomen.
Therefore, the demand for spring tea in the market is very huge, but the output of spring tea is very low, after all, the first sprouts of spring are so part, where there is so much to meet the market. This is the same as lafite in 82 years, who knows if they are drinking Lafite in 2021.
In fact, as early as the industry, there is a tacit practice, that is, after the new tea season, what about the tea leaves that are sold? Some black merchants have a crooked mind, they put the remaining seasonal tea in the cold storage, wait until the spring of the next year, add some pigments, flavors and other re-production, in order to impersonate the new tea.
If black merchants with a little "conscience" will not add these harmful substances to the human body, they will mix old tea and new tea together to sell for profit.
We identify whether it is a new tea, generally from these three aspects to see the number:
1, the appearance: look at the following picture,
At a glance, nothing to hide
Compared with the dry tea of the old tea, the dry tea of the new tea looks shiny at a glance, and the bright green color cannot be hidden.
2. Soup color
It looks like an appetite
The soup color of the new tea looks very comfortable and bright, while the soup color of the old tea is relatively cloudy, and the taste is also very bitter.
3. Leaf bottom
The bottom of this leaf looks like a whole dish
The leaf bottom of the new tea is fat and juicy, and it still does not lose appetite after five bubbles; while the leaf bottom of the old tea is generally dark yellow, like a kneaded and discarded cigarette butt.
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So, the question is, how to perfectly avoid the above pits? How do I buy my favorite tea? In fact, it is very simple, old tea customers generally have their own trust, fixed tea purchase channels. Therefore, when buying tea, don't buy a little from this channel today, buy a little from that channel tomorrow, find a reliable channel, and be a regular customer.
Although black-hearted businessmen are disrupting the market, there are still many tea industry, and people who really love tea and make tea with conscience are not like tea merchants, but more like a tea friend.