Will drinking Tieguanyin hurt your stomach?

Tea drinker Xiao Lin said that the clear soup and green water hurt the stomach and made him feel nauseous after drinking it.

Tea drinker Lao Zhang said it does not hurt the stomach and is quite nourishing for the stomach. I like Tieguanyin.

Is Xiao Lin right, or is Lao Zhang right?

In fact, both Xiao Lin and Lao Zhang make sense. Because they drank different types of Tieguanyin produced with different processing techniques.

Let’s first take a look at why some teas hurt the stomach while drinking some teas nourish the stomach?

Drinking tea hurts the stomach. The main reason is that drinking tea causes hard "irritation" to the stomach, especially on an empty stomach.

In some unfermented and lightly fermented teas, such as green tea. Tea contains a relatively large amount of incompletely converted tea polyphenols and is cold in nature. People with weak gastrointestinal function or suffering from various gastric diseases such as stomach pain and gastric ulcer may in some cases feel more obvious stomach discomfort after drinking.

How about drinking tea to nourish your stomach? The main reason is that the presence of caffeine in tea has the functions of digesting food, relieving greasiness, removing fat, and aiding digestion.

After you are full, have a cup of semi-fermented, heavily fermented or post-fermented tea, and you will feel comfortable all over. Moreover, after entering the mouth, the mellow and smooth tea soup easily forms a thin film in the intestines and stomach, which also has a protective effect on the intestines and stomach. .

As we all know, Tieguanyin has three types according to its technology: light fragrance, strong fragrance, and old fragrance. Among them, light-flavor tea has differences in roasting, neutralizing, and pickling due to different production techniques.

Tea drinker Xiao Lin said that if drinking Tieguanyin hurts the stomach, it should be because he drank the "sour-producing" fragrant Tieguanyin. This type of tea deliberately delays the production time of the tea leaves, so that the tea leaves naturally produce a sour taste. If the production technology is passed, Tieguanyin will add a flavor and directly expand the taste map of Tieguanyin tea; if the production is not good, it will become an unacceptable sour taste. Because the greens are shaken less often and the degree of fermentation is not sufficient, the soup is like the "clear green water" of green tea.

What type of Tieguanyin will not hurt your stomach?

First of all, there is the old saying "Don't drink tea on an empty stomach and don't drink tea before meals."

Secondly, people with weak gastric function or stomach problems should drink less or even no tea with a lower degree of fermentation. Tea with a higher degree of fermentation should be consumed in moderation and pay attention to the amount of tea added.

Furthermore, for people with normal gastric function, there are roughly three types of Tieguanyin that do not hurt the stomach.

The first is charcoal-roasted strong-flavor Tieguanyin. After being roasted by fire, the degree of fermentation is higher, the taste is mellow, and it has a stomach-warming effect.

The second is the old-flavor Tieguanyin, which is actually a certain age of old tea. The tea is mild in nature, has a mellow taste, and has an obvious stomach-warming effect. In folk areas of southern Fujian, old tea is used to treat stomach discomfort.

The third is to mix Tieguanyin, such as: Tieguanyin honey tea, strong-flavored osmanthus oolong tea, etc., or add chrysanthemum, tangerine peel, etc. to the tea. Short, with richer drinking experience and health benefits.