Before drinking tea, you can understand your physique and needs, as long as you don't overdo it, choose caffeine ingredients, overnight problems, choose your own drink to like, and feel comfortable physically and mentally. I heard that drinking tea also depends on the time? Do you know how to "drink tea" correctly if you love tea?
How to drink tea correctly?
Is it better to drink green tea than black tea?
The efficacy of black tea and green tea is about the same, but the composition of black tea is more complex than that of green tea, black tea is a fully fermented tea, although the content of tea polyphenols is small, but theaflavin, thearubigin and theabrownin are produced during the fermentation process. It is recommended to choose according to the season: from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, black tea is mild, has good compatibility, is suitable for adding milk, roses, honey, red dates, etc., and can warm the stomach in winter; green tea is rich in vitamins and tea polyphenols, but the properties are cool, suitable for summer tasting.
Choose tea according to your physique, work and rest
It is recommended that the daily caffeine intake per person should not exceed 300 mg, and it is better to brew it in 3 to 4 times. Pregnant women, children, nervous breakdowns, and arrhythmias should appropriately reduce the amount of tea they drink, or reduce the concentration of caffeine release, such as making tea for a shorter time, or choosing decaf tea.
People who often use computers and use their brains excessively should pay special attention to maintaining their nervous system, and it is recommended to drink an appropriate amount of American ginseng tea, cassia tea or Ganoderma lucidum tea; However, patients with high blood pressure, kidney disease, and ulcer disease are not recommended to drink tea, especially strong tea.
There are contraindications for drinking tea...
1. No need for tea every other night
If the tea is brewed for too long, the vitamin C and other nutrients in the tea will gradually decrease due to oxidation, and the dissolution of too much tannic acid is easy to hurt the stomach.
2. Drinking tea on an empty stomach will hurt the stomach
Because tea contains caffeine, it has the effect of invigorating the nerves, so if you drink tea on an empty stomach, it will overstimulate the stomach, it is recommended to drink tea 1 hour after eating, if it is afternoon tea time, it is recommended to match dim sum better, in order to maintain the normal peristalsis of the stomach, do not cause harm.
3. Is drinking tea addictive?
The main factor of tea addiction is that the tea soup contains caffeine, caffeine is a plant alkaloid, but also a central nervous system stimulant, which can refresh and eliminate fatigue, long-term excessive intake of caffeine may bring caffeine anxiety disorders, such as nervousness, anxiety irritability, insomnia, heart palpitations, etc.
If you want to reduce the caffeine in tea, in addition to not steeping for too long, you can also change the way or variety of tea to reduce your intake. For example, the higher the degree of fermentation, the higher the caffeine content of tea, such as black tea, the caffeine content is greater than oolong tea and green tea, and the caffeine content of cold brew tea is also 1/2 to 1/3 of that of hot brew tea.
4. It is easy to lose sleep when drinking tea at night!
Tea can excite the nerves, drinking tea before going to bed is not conducive to sleep, especially for people who have poor sleep, it is recommended to avoid drinking tea before going to bed, or choose decaf fruit tea. There are special breakfast teas, afternoon teas and good night teas on the market, breakfast tea emphasizes awakening, afternoon tea is mainly flower and fruit tea, and good night tea emphasizes the effect of sleeping.
The expiration date of the tea leaves
Tea according to the grade or type of different, the shelf life is also different, although most of them can be preserved for 2 to 3 years, but all kinds of packaging will be related to the deterioration of tea, if the storage container is damaged, the temperature and humidity of the space are too high, or due to the oxidation of time, it is possible to make the tea deteriorate, it is recommended to drink it within half a year, in order to drink the most complete tea aroma, otherwise the time is too long, the aroma is easy to run away.