yellow mountain maofeng strong green tea

Huangshan Maofeng is one of the top ten famous teas in China.

Its tea leave has a slivery green color and bird’s tongue strip shape, its tea soup is bright clear with yellowish green color, has a pleasant orchid aroma and sweet mellow taste.

Maofeng Green Tea has benefits in clearing away summer heat, promoting defecation, preventing from radiation injuries and so on.

Legend of Huangshan Maofeng tea

According to local legend, a young scholar and a beautiful local girl fell madly in love. A local landowner saw the girl picking tea and wanted her for himself. He forced the girl's parents to make their daughter marry him. On the night before the wedding, the young girl snuck out of the landowners house only to find that the landowner had murdered the scholar. She went to his grave and cried until she became the rain. The scholar's body became a tea tree.

mao feng green tea health benefits

1, Increased Brain Power

2, Work out fuel and fat burner

3, Fight Cancer

4, Kill Bacteria

5, A Lower Risk of Type II Diabetes

6, Reduce Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

7, Health and Beauty – Anti-Ageing

Drinking tips:

• Do not steep green too long. Green tea is non-fermented and has a lot of tea polyphenols, alkaloids and other nutrients, if you drink it too strong the nutrients have a too strong reaction it will irritate the stomach or dilute the stomach acid causing digestion problems or stomach aches. For more experienced green tea drinkers a strong brew will be fine.

• If brew green tea with hot water, drink the tea while still hot. We suggest drinking all the green tea you brewed within 60 - 90 minutes. If the green tea sits too long it will oxidize lose the nutrients. If you want drink cold tea, use cold water to brew. It will take about 20 minutes to 90 minutes to steep. Once the tea turns green and brown color, it is ready to drink.

• We suggest drinking the green tea 30 - 60 minutes after meal. Drinking too soon after the meal, the tea will reactor with the nutrients of the food, especially the iron and protein. So if you have anemia, do not drink green tea, black tea, oolong tea, and pu-erh tea.