Does Puerh tea belong to black tea or green tea?

Does Puerh tea belong to black tea or green tea?

Is Puerh tea a black tea or a green tea? This question may be really boring and harmful to many Puerh tea lovers! Don’t you laugh, for most people who don’t know Puerh tea, this is really a question. Today, let’s find out whether Puerh tea belongs to black tea or green tea?

What is Green Tea?

Green tea is the most common tea in our life. Green tea is the most popular tea and is produced in all provinces of China. Therefore, even people who don’t usually drink tea know that green tea exists. Green tea looks green, the soup color is also green, the bottom of the leaf is also green, and the taste is fresh and sweet. So when people who don’t know Puerh Raw Tea drink Puerh Raw Tea, the first reaction is green tea. Professionally speaking, green tea is made from fresh leaf buds through three main processes of greening, kneading and drying. Green tea is unfermented and retains the natural substances of fresh leaves, containing tea polyphenols, catechins, chlorophyll, caffeine, amino acids, vitamins and other nutrients. The green color and tea broth preserve more of the green tone of fresh tea leaves, hence the name.

　What is black tea?

The production of black tea ranks second to green tea, which is considered the second largest tea, and black tea has the characteristics of red leaves and red soup, which is also better to distinguish. Therefore, it is normal that Puerh ripe tea, which shares the same soup color, is regarded as black tea. Professionally speaking, black tea is a fully fermented tea, which is refined by a series of processes such as withering, kneading (cutting), fermentation, drying and so on, taking the new buds and leaves of the tea tree as raw materials. Black tea in the processing of chemical reactions centered on the enzymatic oxidation of tea polyphenols, the composition of the fresh leaf changes, the tea polyphenol reduced by more than 90%, resulting in theaflavin, thearubigin and other new components and aroma substances, with black tea, red soup, red leaves, sweet and mellow flavor characteristics.

What is Puerh Tea?

Pu-erh tea is a specialty tea of Yunnan, with Yunnan large-leafed species of fresh leaves, one bud, two or three leaves as the picking standard, after killing, kneading, drying to make Pu-erh raw tea and Pu-erh ripe tea raw materials, also known as the Maocha, sun-dried green tea as raw materials and then through the traditional technology of steaming molding known as Pu-erh raw tea. The tea made from sun-dried green woolen tea is called Puerh Ripe Tea after fermentation. Pu-erh tea is characterized by high quality raw materials, exquisite craftsmanship and good storage conditions, and the more it ages, the more fragrant it is.

Puerh raw tea production process: through the fresh leaves picking, drying, killing, kneading, i.e. sun green tea, and then continue to sun green tea high temperature steaming, and then placed into a fixed mold qualitative, sun-drying made of tightly pressed (cakes, bricks, tuo) tea; Puerh raw tea brewing, the soup color, taste are similar to the green tea, so for many people do not understand the Puerh Tea, Puerh Tea raw tea is green tea.

Puerh ripe tea production process: after the sunshine green tea, artificial ovo-pile fermentation, that is, loose ripe tea, and then after steaming, pressing stereotypes, become ripe tea pressed tea. After Puerh ripe tea is brewed, the soup color is red and thick, which is similar to the color of black tea soup, so when new tea lovers drink Puerh ripe tea, they have the illusion that Puerh ripe tea is black tea.

Puerh raw tea has the characteristics of green tea, Puerh ripe tea has the characteristics of black tea, but Puerh tea does not belong to the black tea, nor does it belong to the green tea, so what kind of tea does Puerh tea belong to? In fact, this issue is more controversial, and each has its own reasoning. A more recognized point of view is: the current national standard defined Puerh tea, can not be directly in accordance with the six major categories of tea classification method simply to which category, the root cause is “Puerh raw tea” and “Puerh ripe tea” in the production method and quality of the huge differences that exist! The fundamental reason for this is the huge difference between “Puerh Raw Tea” and “Puerh Ripe Tea” in terms of production method and quality.

However, sometimes we also respect consumers or tea lovers to define Puerh tea by their own understanding. After all, the world is diverse and rich.

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