Whether entertaining guests or drinking by yourself, Pu-erh tea is a good choice. According to the processing technology and quality characteristics, Pu’er tea is divided into “Raw Pu’er Tea” (“raw Pu” for short) and “Ripe Pu’er Tea” (“cooked Pu” for short). What is the difference between them?
Both raw Pu-erh tea and cooked Pu-erh tea are made from sun-dried green tea from Yunnan. The fresh leaves of the tea tree are dried to obtain sun-dried green tea.
Raw Pu’er tea is made of sun-dried green tea with large leaves from Yunnan, which is steamed at high temperature to soften and pressed into various shapes of pressed tea, such as cake tea, brick tea, and tuo tea.
Changjiang Yongwen, deputy director of the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that the appearance of freshly processed Pu’er raw tea is green or dark green, and the soup color is yellow-green or green. The quality characteristics are generally close to sun-dried green tea, and its tea polyphenol content is high. , so the taste is strong, bitter and irritating.
During storage, the tea polyphenols will be oxidatively polymerized or degraded, and the content will gradually decrease. The appearance of raw Pu-erh tea will turn brown, the soup color will change to yellow or red, and the taste will change from strong and bitter to mellow.
Ripe Pu’er tea is made from sun-dried green tea, which is fermented and dried. Ripe Pu’er tea is reddish brown or brown in appearance, and the soup color is dark red or maroon.
Because most of the polyphenols in the tea leaves will aggregate or degrade during the fermentation process of Pu’er cooked tea, the quality characteristics of Pu’er cooked tea are close to that of black tea, and the taste is strong and mellow. Drinking Pu’er cooked tea can help digestion and remove greasy. Not only will it not stimulate the stomach, but it can also protect the stomach. Pu-erh cooked tea can be divided into loose tea and pressed tea according to its shape. Pressed tea is made of Pu-erh loose tea as raw material and steam-pressed into different shapes of Pu-erh cooked tea.
In summary, the quality characteristics of raw Pu-erh tea and cooked Pu-erh tea are obviously different. The choice of tea should be determined in combination with one’s physical condition and flavor preference. If you are easy to get angry and have a good gastrointestinal function, you can choose raw tea.
