What is Oolong Tea?
Had you heard oolong tea? If you are one of many people who like drink tea every morning while taking breakfast, you must know tea types. Lots of people like oolong tea because it stores health benefits. Beside that, this tea has unique process that different with other teas. Oolong tea comes from a tea plant species, Camellia Sinensis. It contains polyphenols as anti oxidant.
Oolong tea has a half oxidation process before curling and twisting and it crushing under the strong sun light. If we look from the degree of fermentation terms, this tea can range from 8% to 85%, depending on the processing style. Caused of the unique process, its color mixed between green and black.
We can find oolong tea easily in Fujian, China and several places in Taiwan. Because of that, some people called oolong tea as Chinese tea. Chinese restaurants usually dish oolong tea out with dim sum (Chinese food). As we know it’s not offhand when brewing tea, if we brewing oolong tea with the proper way, we can get bitter taste but leave little sweetness after drank it.
One of lots oolong tea health benefits is losing cholesterol so it’s useful for people who want to lose their weight. We can drink oolong tea every morning to help decreasing bad cholesterol that disturbs people’s health. Oolong tea also can help hastening metabolism, it means help burning calories faster. There are just a little bit of oolong tea benefits to weight loss, it stores other health benefits so keep reading this blog.
