Every person at least once in his life thought about what he drinks. What's inside a tea bag? Tea dust or something useful?
What is really in a tea bag? To do this, first you need to understand and consider in more detail the process of processing tea leaves.
Tea leaves are subjected to various mechanical influences during processing. Such as: twisting, tearing, crushing and flattening.
At each stage, there are vibrating platforms or, as they are also called, vibrating sorting machines. With their help, tea leaves are sorted by size. Passing through this platform, the tea leaf is also destroyed and an even finer fraction is created. Even more small sheet and crumbs are created.
Then, during the drying phase, the tea leaves become brittle and more porous, which leads to the formation of small tea leaves, the number of which increases.
As a result, each sorted fraction is divided into grades, depending on the size and quality.
- Large-leaved (OPA, OP, P)
- Medium leaf (FBOP, BOP)
- Small - sowing (Fanings - 1, 1 mm to 0.55 mm)
- Crumb (Dust - from 0.5 mm to 0.4 mm).
All these varieties of tea have the same usefulness, which depends only on the raw materials, on the method of harvesting and processing.
Also, each variety has its own purpose, depending on the brewing method.
- Leaf teas - for brewing in a teapot and enjoying the aroma.
- Packaged - for faster brewing, because this process is much faster and is designed to reduce time.
Therefore, more often small tea is used in bags, it brews faster and will benefit. This is due to physics - the larger the area of contact with water, the more intense and faster the extraction
Seedlings and crumbs are used in sachets. In their work, they are used by titters, which create unique blends and amazing aromatic tea mixtures. Sometimes titters use tea cutters, which grind the tea leaves to crumbs or seedings.
From all it can be concluded that only tea leaves are used in tea bags, which have been crushed to the desired structure. And the quality indicators of tea, such as the content of caffeine, antioxidants and catechins, depend on the original tea leaf, on where it grew and how it was looked after. All this is controlled by special laboratories at tea-making and tea-packing enterprises.
It should be noted that tea leaves less than 0.4 mm, which are also called trifles, are not used.
But tea leaves less than 0.4 mm in size are a trifle and are really not used in production. Tea dust is also not used in production. So you can safely buy both loose leaf and tea bags, focusing only on your tastes and preferences.
