Is there any fake tea? How to tell if spring tea is real or fake?

Tea brewing and drinking not only has a unique aroma, but also has certain health benefits. There are many types of tea and different origins, such as the famous Pu'er, Biluochun, Tieguanyin, etc. The most popular teas are often counterfeited, and unscrupulous merchants use this to make profits.

Is there any fake tea?

In fact, there is no such thing as real or fake tea, only quality and authenticity. Some common types of fake tea include:

1. Non-tea substances are mixed into tea. This situation usually occurs more often in compressed tea. Unscrupulous tea merchants mix leaves, branches, dust, etc. into tea bricks or tea cakes. Tea novices generally don’t understand this. The national standard has a special indicator for this type of tea, which is the tea stem content. If it exceeds the standard, it is unqualified and adulterated tea.

2. Marking the grade as high. The tea labeled as special grade on the product label is actually not of grade one or two. This is also a fraudulent and deceptive act.

3. Faking geographical indication teas, selling teas from outside the producing areas as famous teas, such as West Lake Longjing, Anji White Tea, Nanjing Yuhua Tea, Dongting Biluochun, etc. Most of them are teas from outside the producing areas. This phenomenon is very common. Generally, when a tea novice goes to buy tea, the boss takes out two kinds of tea for you to taste, and tells you that one is the real one and the other is from another place of origin, and lets you choose for yourself. No matter which one you choose, he can make money.

4. Tea companies in famous tea producing areas will purchase tea of ​​similar quality from other producing areas and put the company's packaging on it to sell to customers because the local famous tea has low output and huge market. In order to avoid risks, well-known tea companies will clearly mark the origin on the outer packaging, but the lettering is very small and ordinary consumers will not notice it.

How to tell if spring tea is authentic

Appearance

Spring tea leaves are brighter and in the shape of strips; high-quality ones have the appearance of "dragonfly head, frog legs", and the grains are firm and not loose!

color

Spring tea is dark green, thick, uniform and bright. After brewing, the tea soup is bright orange and shiny.

fragrance

The aroma of spring tea is rich and long-lasting, with a faint orchid scent.

taste

Spring tea tastes sweet and refreshing. The advantage of spring tea lies in the water, and the water here refers to soup!

How to choose high-quality tea

There are six major tea systems in my country: green tea, white tea, yellow tea, oolong tea, black tea and dark tea; the methods of identifying and judging different tea systems are different.

There are too many details to explain each one, so to put it briefly, there are four main points!

1. Color

It includes the color of dry tea, the color of tea soup, and the color of the leaves after brewing.

2. Incense

Similarly, it is the aroma of dry tea and the aroma of tea soup.

Three: Taste

The taste of tea.

Many people like to chew some dry tea, and many people think it is for tasting the flavor. In fact, this method is more used to identify the dryness of the tea.

Four: Type

The shape of the dry tea and the shape and freshness of the leaves after brewing.

In general, it is to look at the appearance, mainly to observe the color, tenderness, strands, purity, wholeness and aroma of the tea leaves. Generally speaking, the buds and leaves are tender, clean, uniform in color, oily, the strands and grains are firm, the thickness is consistent, the aroma is rich and pure, and there is no smoke or burnt smell, which is a high-quality tea!

In addition to looking at the dry appearance, you must also combine it with the wet quality, that is, after the tea leaves are brewed, you should smell its aroma, taste its flavor, observe the color of the tea soup, and look at the bottom of the leaves!