Tea cold knowledge: don't lie to you, Pu'er tea really has sugar!
Pu-erh tea really has sugar
In the words used for the tasting taste of Pu'er tea, raw tea is indispensable to sweet and delicious, rock sugar rhyme, cooked tea is indispensable to thick and smooth mellow, a sweet word, depicting the sweetness of Pu'er tea soup. Sweetness is the taste embodied in sugar, is there sugar in Pu'er tea?
Does Pu-erh tea have sugar?
Of course, the sweetness of tea comes from sugar, of course, it is the sugar naturally contained in Pu'er tea, which is the material basis of sweetness, not the acquired processing and addition of synthetic sugar. The standard academic expression is as follows: "The flavor substances in tea give tea a characteristic flavor, and the flavor substances in tea are composed of a variety of different types of compounds."
The important material basis of the sweet and mellow taste of Pu'er tea: sugar substances in tea
Tea contains a variety of carbohydrates, monosaccharides, disaccharides and a small number of oligosaccharides can produce sweetness, similar to the sweetness of rock sugar; sugar substances in tea account for 20% to 25% of dry matter, monosaccharides and disaccharides are usually soluble in water, so it is generally called soluble sugar, with a sweet taste. Water-soluble pectin dissolved in tea soup can also enhance tea soup concentration, sweet taste and smoothness. The determination of 155 commercially available Pu'er tea samples showed that the minimum content of soluble total sugar was 5.25%, the highest was 11.74%, and the average content was 9.23±1.40%, which was an important material basis for the sweet taste of Pu'er tea.
Pu-erh tea really has sugar!
Some amino acids in Pu'er tea not only show umami taste, but also show sweetness. Theaflamin and thearubi are brownish red in color, which are the main ingredients of the "red" color of Pu'er tea soup, with sweet and mellow taste and sweet aroma.
This is also the scene that daily reception tea friends usually have, "Pu'er tea tea soup is sweet and sweet!" "Did you add sugar to the tea?" "No added sugar, tea candy is originally in the tea, don't lie to you, Pu'er tea really has sugar!" ”