2008年7月22日火曜日

Barly tea VS Oolong tea

Hot!!Hot!!Hot!!
Recently, everyday is hot!! On a hot day, we cannot miss fluid replacement.
What do you want to drink when you thirst?
Most Japanese drink oolong tea, barley tea, juice and so on. And so, I compare oolong tea and barley tea. Please consult this theme for Hot Summer.

Round 1 ~HISTORY~
There is very old about the relationship between barleycorns and human. About 13000 years ago from now, barleycorn was grown at birthplace of ancient civilization such as Iran, Iraq, and the Indus and so on.
In Japan, about 2500 years ago from now, the Jomon Period, it came down as cultivated plant. And it spread throughout. Japan had custom roast barleycorn. It says that feudal warlord loved to drink barley tea. Barley tea is belly wash to make using barleycorn seed. Barleycorn is decoction. It is called “Mugiyu”. Actually, barley tea doesn’t use tea. So technically, it’s not tea. Barley tea doesn’t have containing caffeine. So baby can drink it. It is known as to have health effect that improves the flow of blood. People who live some area drink it that put in salt or sugar.
Oolong tea:
A long long time ago, china had custom to make emperor a present of best tea. And time of Ming. People thought about we want to make emperor a present of more good aromatic tea. Then they tried various measures. As a result, we made Oolong tea which is half fermented tea. Oolong tea write in Kanji, “烏龍茶”. It is told that “龍” means emperor.
People around the world enjoy many different kinds of teas. But all these teas are made from the leaf of the same tea plant (which originated in China and belongs to the camellia family) Oolong is a semi-fermented tea. Even though the raw ingredient is the same, different teas are produced by different production methods, namely the difference in the extent of fermentation. Unfermented (green) tea is produced without fermenting the leaves; semi-fermented (oolong) tea is made by fermenting the leaves to some extent; while fermented (black) tea is made by fermenting the leaves fully. Oolong tea make from these deep labor hour, skill, experience.

Round 2 ~healthy feeling~
Barley tea:
Barley tea is nature drink, because it isn’t added to artificial preservative and sweet- tasting substance. And it don’have strong substance such as tannin, caffeine and so on. So, mother can give her baby to drink it. In recently, barley tea has important power of our healthy. It is demonstrated by science. If you drink it, your blood is healthy. In other words, it helps blood travel through veins smoothly. It is pyrazine. It prevents high blood and arterial sclerosis. Barley tea promotes the circulation of blood.

Oolong tea:
Generically, it says that oolong tea is known as help assimilate and to move stomach. And it has many healthy feelings.However oolong tea has many good healthy feelings. Oolong tea has great taste and spicy. Oolong tea is half fermented tea. Oolong tea has many substances that caffeine, tannin, vitamin C and so on. And oolong tea has also saponin. Saponin degrades oil content.
It also says that oolong tea prevent metabolic syndrome.
Round 3 ~sort~
Barley:
Barley tea usually use barleycorn. Barleycorn has 2 sorts, two-rowed barley and six-rowed barley. Two-rowed barley is called tow-rowed barley tea. Six-rowed barley is called six-rowed barley tea. In Chain, there is four-rowed barley, too.

Oolong tea:
Oolong tea has so many sorts. Very good taste oolong tea made in Taiwan. Today I introduce you 4 kinds of oolong tea.
First is Seigan tea. It’s like Romanee Conti. I mean it is very expensive. Now the tea tree that this tea is produced has only four of them. And, people can adopt only 4 kilos a year from the tree, Recently, a kind of oolong tea is very popular. It is kouzan tea. I don’t know why it is very popular. But it is very popular.
Third is hosyu tea. This tea is light blue color. This tea is liked by a woman. However, most popular by young woman is jasmine tea. I like it. It is good smell.

I compared barley tea and oolong tea. I prefer oolong tea or barley tea. Barley tea has good smell and not acrid.
I think oolong tea is a little acrid, but I live oolong tea, because oolong tea has many and good healthy feelings. My mother always says that oolong tea is very good for our body. So I think oolong tea is good more than barley tea.

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mashi さんのコメント...

>mashi
I like green tea. I am interested in Chinese green tea. Did you try?