How to tell the true and false of rose tea
1. Check the color of dried flowers
Whether it is sun-dried rose tea or directly dried rose tea, the color of rose tea without sulfur fumigation is purple, slightly reddish, and the outermost petals have some colors similar to purple-black, and the color will be purple as you go deeper. The rose tea smoked by sulfur is pink and bright, and there is no black purple formed by natural drying.
2. The color of the soaked rose tea
Just now, we talked about whether it belongs to sulfur-smoked rose tea by the color of dried flowers, and whether it belongs to sulfur-smoked rose tea by the color after soaking. After normal roses are soaked in hot water, the color change is slightly faster than that of sulfur-containing roses, because sulfur has the effect of fixing color, and the color is light yellow. If you don't drink it after soaking in wet water for 2 minutes for a long time, the color of water will turn brown. However, the color of rose tea smoked by sulfur changes slowly and is dark, and there is absolutely no natural yellowish color.
3. Check the color of the receptacle
Rose tea that has not been smoked with sulfur, only the receptacle near the petals is green with a little brown, and the petal between the receptacle and the petals is yellow, which is the trace left by baking. However, if it is a sulfur-smoked rose, the color of the receptacle is brownish yellow, without any green, and the petals near the receptacle are white, which is a very obvious feature of sulfur-containing rose tea.
4. Distinguish by the smell of dried flowers
When buying rose tea, pick up a few flowers with your hands and put them under your nose to smell them gently. The rose tea that is really dried and smoked without sulfur has a strong fragrance of roses. I once heard someone say that good-quality rose tea only has a very light rose fragrance, and those very strong ones are all spiced. Ladies and gentlemen, you can understand if you don't believe me by drying some roses yourself. Really naturally dried rose tea really has a very strong rose fragrance. And the rose tea smoked by sulfur, hold it in your hand and smell it. The aroma of roses is almost absent, but it has a sour taste.
5. Integrity of roses
Roses smoked with sulfur are easily broken, and there are often many pieces in a box of rose tea. In the mouth of some sellers, only naturally dried roses will be easily broken, and those roses with better integrity are added with some artificial preparations. If you hear these remarks, don't believe that the integrity of rose tea, whether it is quickly dried or sun-dried, is better.
6. Identify the smell after making tea
Put three or five roses in a cup, rush into hot water of about 9 degrees, and then quickly smell at the mouth of the cup. The roses that have not really been smoked with sulfur will give off a very strong rose fragrance during the time when boiling water rushes in, and there is a special fragrance belonging to flowers and plants. This is very easy to identify. When hot water rushes in, the roses smoked with sulfur, There are also some sulfur-containing roses that give off an abnormal aroma when they rush into boiling water. This is definitely not the aroma of roses, but an essence to cover up the smell of sulfur.
7. Identify by taste
If you have drunk rose tea that is really naturally dried, the taste of rose tea must be deeply remembered on the tip of your tongue. When you take a sip of rose tea, there will be a slightly lighter rose fragrance in your mouth, as well as the slightly astringent taste of flowers and leaves, especially slight, but this taste exists. However, the rose tea smoked by sulfur will feel a spicy feeling on the tip of the tongue after drinking it, which is very important to distinguish whether the rose tea contains sulfur residue.