In recent years, more friends like to use Xinhui tangerine peel to soak in water, whether in spring and summer or autumn and winter, a cup of tangerine peel water is a wonderful enjoyment!
However, some tea lovers will find that tangerine peel has a bitter taste when drinking tangerine peel water, why is this? In fact, Xinhui tangerine peel tea has a bitter taste, which is mainly related to the internal ingredients, the harvesting and grading of Xinhui tangerine peel, the brewing ratio, and the brewing method.
Tangerine peel has a bitter taste and is a characteristic
Chen Pi is bitter, this discovery has been recorded in the annals of ancient times.
There is a record in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "(Tangerine peel) bitterness can release and dryness, hard can disperse, gentle energy, and it cures all diseases." ”
The book "Benjing Fengyuan" contains: "Orange peel is bitter, hard, warm, and non-toxic. Produce Guangdong East New Club, old and good. ”
In the "Medicinal Fu", it is recorded that "tangerine peel is bitter and bitter, warm and non-toxic." ”
The performance and efficacy of tangerine peel is also described in modern times:
The Chinese Pharmacopoeia (2015 edition) records tangerine peel: "bitter, hard, warm." Return to the lungs, spleen meridians. Strengthen the spleen, dry and moisturize phlegm. ”
The textbook "Chinese Materia Medica" records: "Hard work, bitterness, warmth. Attributed to the spleen and lung meridians. In the regulation of qi, dry and humid phlegm, used for spleen and stomach stagnation, wet phlegm, cold phlegm cough, vomiting and hiccups. ”
The "Chinese Materia Medica", edited by the editorial board of the "Chinese Materia Medica" of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, recorded: "Tangerine peel, bitter taste, warm. Return to the spleen, stomach, lung meridian, rationalize qi and reduce reverse, adjust the appetizing, dry and humidify phlegm. ......”
The "Guangdong Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine" contains: "Chen peel is bitter, hard, warm, and belongs to the lungs and spleen meridians." Strengthen the spleen and dry and moisturize phlegm. ......”
According to ancient and modern book descriptions, its performance taste can be summarized as: bitter, bitter, warm.
Harvest time: green skin> two red skin> large red skin
The bitterness of Xinhui tangerine peel tea is closely related to the harvesting and grading of Xinhui tangerine peel. Xinhui tangerine peel can be divided into citrus green peel (green peel), reddish peel (two red skin) and big red peel (red skin) according to the harvesting and processing time.
Because the green peel is harvested and processed when the citrus fruit is not yet ripe, the sugar content is small, and the bitter taste will appear more obvious when used to make tea. The second red skin is second, and the bitterness of the big red skin is relatively lightest, and the taste is milder.
Brewing ratio: More tangerine peel is not better
Although Xinhui tangerine peel tea can be healthy, the more you put it, the better the effect. When the ratio of Xinhui tangerine peel to water is unbalanced, there will be a bitter tea feeling or too weak tea taste.
Brewing method: Avoid prolonged soaking
Tea is strong, and so is tangerine peel tea. In addition to portion size, soaking time is critical. Xinhui tangerine peel taste is hard and bitter, and if the soaking time is too long, it will produce a bitter taste and affect the taste.
Direct soaking method: choose a bowl or cup to brew, tear the tangerine peel into the container, then pour boiling water to wash again, and then pour boiling water again, it takes a few minutes to taste, the ratio of tangerine peel and water is about 1:50. Feel free to add water after drinking.
When the bitterness of tea soup is found, the amount of Xinhui tangerine peel can be reduced, and it can also be combined with hawthorn, laurel balls, red dates and other good things, which not only pampers health, but also effectively relieves the bitterness of tangerine peel.
At present, the heat is not dissipated, and the dryness is ordered. In your spare time, you may wish to brew a pot of Xinhui tangerine peel tea, which has a mellow taste and heals the "autumn dryness" brought by the alternation of seasons in the aroma of aged age.