What are the famous green tea producing regions? A full analysis of the benefits of drinking green tea
Many people today pay attention to health and wellness, so green tea is essential. Green tea is China's national drink and ranks first among the six healthy beverages recommended by the United Nations. So what are the famous green tea producing regions? What are the benefits of drinking green tea? Let's find out together.
What are the famous green tea producing regions?
1. West Lake Longjing
One of the most distinctive and most famous varieties of green tea, named after Longjing Village near West Lake in Hangzhou.
2. Dongting Biluochun
Produced in the Dongting Mountains on the shore of Taihu Lake, it is a tender pan-fired green tea, famous for its "four excellences": beautiful shape, bright color, rich aroma and mellow taste.
3. Huangshan Maofeng
Produced in the Huangshan Scenic Area and the adjacent areas of Tangkou, Gangcun, Yangcun, Fangcun, Changtan, Chongchuan and Qianjintai, among which the four producing areas of Tangkou, Gangcun, Yangcun and Fangcun are the best.
4. Lushan Yunwu
Produced in Lushan, Jiangxi, it is named after the mist-shrouded Lushan Mountain.
5. Lu'an Guapian
One of the famous green teas, named for its flat, melon-seed-like shape, produced in Jinzhai County and Huoshan County of Lu'an City, Anhui, in the Dabie Mountains tea region of western Anhui. Because it is mainly produced in Qiyun Mountain, it is also called Qiyun Guapian.
6. Xinyang Maojian
Named for its tightly rolled, straight, fine and round shape, with obvious downy hairs and exposed peak tips, and because it is produced in the Xinyang area of the Dabie Mountains in southern Henan.
7. Wuyuan Mingmei
Produced in Zhanggong Mountain, Xitou, Jiangwan, Dafan, Tuochuan, Gutan, Duanxin and Qiukou in Wuyuan County, Jiangxi.
What are the benefits of drinking green tea?
1. Beauty and skin care
The tea polyphenols in green tea are water-soluble substances. Washing the face with green tea can remove facial grease, tighten pores, and to a certain extent has disinfecting, sterilizing and anti-skin-aging effects, and can also reduce skin damage caused by ultraviolet radiation in sunlight.
2. Lowering blood lipids and losing weight
Drinking tea can lower blood lipids and cholesterol in the blood. This is the result of the combined coordination of phenolic derivatives, aromatic substances, amino acid substances and vitamin substances in tea. The combined effect of tea polyphenols with tea catechins and vitamin C can promote fat oxidation and help digestion, lower blood lipids and lose weight.
3. Sun protection
The catechins in green tea have a very strong antioxidant function. After applying skin care products containing green tea ingredients to the skin, even when exposed to strong sunlight, they can reduce by about 1/3 the peroxides that cause skin sunburn, sagging and roughness.
4. Refreshing the mind
The caffeine in green tea leaves can stimulate the central nervous system, enhance the excitation process of the cerebral cortex, and have the effect of refreshing the mind, benefiting thinking and calming the heart.
5. Diuresis and relieving fatigue
The caffeine in green tea leaves can stimulate the kidneys, prompt urine to be excreted quickly, increase the filtration rate of the kidneys, and reduce the time harmful substances remain in the kidneys. In addition, caffeine can also excrete excess lactic acid in the urine, helping the body eliminate fatigue as quickly as possible.
In daily life, drinking tea is good for health, and green tea is a popular kind of tea. Drinking green tea appropriately in daily life can improve the body's resistance and clear viruses, and it is good for men and women, young and old alike.
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