Once people are old, it is inevitable that they will pay more attention to their own health, and many friends have begun a more healthy lifestyle, such as proper exercise, eating seven points full, not staying up late, maintaining a pleasant mood, etc., and some people will choose to make tea every day.
Among them, in the brewing of tea, the most common and simplest is to use goji berries to make tea. Many people know that goji berries are a very medicinal material, and the main components of goji berries are betaine, goji polysaccharides, goji pigments, etc., which have certain benefits for the human body.
Drinking water with goji berries is a very good way to eat, but many people do not know how to brew goji berries. There are also many people who do not do well enough when they brew goji berries, and even if they drink more, it may not be of much use.
How to brew goji berries is the right one?
Step 1: Goji berries need to be rinsed once before proceeding to the next step. Why? Because goji berries may be stained with dust and some dirty things during the drying process, and there may even be insect excrement and eggs on it. Therefore, when we want to brew goji berry tea, we must rinse it to remove dirty things.
Step 2: How to wash the goji berries? Add warm water, soak for 10 seconds, shake slightly to let the dirty stuff fall off and pour it out of the water.
Why use warm water? Many people will pour boiling water directly when brewing goji berries, which is actually not good, because the high temperature water may cause the nutrients contained in goji berries to be lost. Goji polysaccharides and goji berry pigments are active ingredients that can be destroyed at high temperatures. Therefore, the water used for cleaning and soaking goji berries before soaking goji berries should not be boiled water, it is best to use warm water, generally 40 to 50 degrees of warm water. The temperature of cold boiled water does not soften dirty things to make them fall off, so warm water is very suitable.
Step 3: Pour out the warm water from the first rinse of the goji berries. Many people do not rinse, directly add water to brew goji berries, which may drink dirty goji berry tea and may cause unnecessary trouble.
Step 4: Re-add warm water, soak the goji berries, so that the effective composition of the goji berries is analyzed, until the soaked water turns light yellow and can be drunk. If the goji berries are normal, they will generally dye the soaked water light yellow, if it is sulfur smoked goji berries, the soaked water is very dark, we must pay attention to whether the use of normal goji berries (the following will talk about how to identify).
Why are goji berries light yellow?
Because goji berry pigment is mainly carotene, lutein and other substances, soaking in water will turn light yellow.
A cup of sweet and delicious goji berry tea is brewed, and there is no difficulty at all. After the goji berries are brewed in tea, it is not advisable to wash or brew goji berries with boiling water, it is best to soak them in warm water.
Use warm water to let the nutrients in the goji berries precipitate out, that is, to retain more nutrients.
In winter, it is a good idea to brew a cup of warm goji berry tea, but because goji berries have a warming effect, people with three heights should not drink it. On the contrary, normal people can drink one cup a day. Goji berries can be soaked up to 3 times, and the water soaked in the fourth time will become very clear, at this time you can eat the goji berries, and you will not waste it.
The premise of brewing a cup of valuable goji berry tea is to buy good goji berries, someone will take the sulfur smoked goji berries out for sale, in fact, this sulfur smoked goji berries are harmful, and using it to make tea will definitely affect health. So when buying goji berries, you must distinguish clearly, and teach you 5 methods below.
1. Look at the color, normal goji berries, the color is relatively dark purple, dark red. The dyed goji berries are more colorful and bright red. Goji berries smoked with sulfur are yellowish.
2. Smell the smell, normal goji berries smell quite fragrant. And the sulfur smoked will have a pungent smell, and there is a goji berries that are deteriorating, and there will be a fermented wine smell.
3. Touch, normal goji berries are scattered one by one. The past-colored or sulfur-smoked goji berries will stick together and have a sticky feeling.
4. Taste the taste, normal goji berries, eat up, is the more chewy the sweeter. Sulfur-smoked goji berries, on the other hand, are slightly sour and bitter.
5. Soak it, normal goji berries, soak in water, the water will turn light yellow. Smoked goji berries, on the other hand, turn red or yellow in color.
If you want the effect of making goji berries to make tea is better, you can also add cassia seeds, dates, chrysanthemums and other materials. The role has its own advantages, you may wish to check it yourself.
Goji berries brew tea, in the end how to brew is the best? Teach you the right way, sweet and nutritious. Well, the above is the right way to soak goji berries, if someone around you is doing something wrong, be sure to tell him/her Oh, don't do it wrong and waste it. Finally, thank you for reading, please give a thumbs up for supporting it.