Tea drinking is no longer just a part of British culture. It has firmly entered our life. Now it is difficult to imagine breakfast without tea or birthday cake without it. In addition, now you can buy not only tea, but also tea drinks. How is one different from the other?
Instructions
Step 1
Tea is a tonic drink with pronounced taste and aroma characteristics. Its consumption has a positive effect on the digestive, heart and nervous systems. Tea helps to eliminate toxins from the body.
To get the tea, you need to collect the upper shoots (flushes) of the evergreen tea plant. The age of the plant and the time of collection determine the taste and quality of the tea. The topsheet and bud of the tea plant have high levels of caffeine. It is no longer possible to obtain first-class high-quality tea from old and rough shoots.
Depending on the technology of preparation, tea is divided into long tea or loose and granulated. In turn, long tea can be black, green, white, red.
Step 2
Tea drinks are a blend of some sort of tea with herbs, fruits or berries. Also, tea drinks include simply mixtures of dried leaves, flowers and fruits. Unlike tea, tea drinks are consumed with the aim of obtaining any healing effect.
Step 3
There are these types of tea drinks:
• fruit drinks. Such a drink may contain pieces of berries and citrus peels. The most common filling for such drinks is: rose hips, currants, strawberries, cranberries, lemon, orange. This drink is well suited for the treatment of colds.
• leaf drinks. This species will receive their taste characteristics due to rose petals or cornflowers, marigolds, jasmine. As a rule, the attractiveness of this type of tea drink lies precisely in its taste and aroma characteristics.
• herbal drinks. This type of tea drink has the largest number of varieties. He also holds the record for healing effects. Traditional medicine recipes are used to make tea drinks from herbs.
Step 4
When buying tea or tea drink, you need to remember that there is a difference in their consumption. While tea can be drunk daily, the situation is different with tea drink. Herbal drinks should be taken according to a specific system, and not randomly and on a whim. For example, motherwort, chamomile, and mint have a calming and sedative effect, so taking them all the time is not advisable.
