Chenpi is produced in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Hunan. The product produced in Guangzhou is called Guangdong Chenpi, and the Chenpi produced in other areas is called Chenpi. Among them Xinhui Chenpi is the best.
Xinhui tangerine peel can only be made from the orange peel of Xinhui tea orange produced in Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, dried and stored for more than three years. It is reported that Xinhui has been planting citrus for more than a thousand years, and the processing history of dried tangerine peel has been more than 700 years. Xinhui Chenpi is a national geographical indication product and the first of the "Three Treasures of Guangdong". It has the reputation of "a thousand years of ginseng, a hundred years of dried tangerine peel" and is highly respected by famous doctors in past dynasties.
The short-lived Xinhui tangerine peel will present a bitter, sour and astringent taste, while the aged tangerine peel will present a sweet, fragrant, mellow and old taste. The taste of dried tangerine peel in other places does not change with the increase of years, and most of them are single, bitter, sour and astringent.
Introduction to the selection knowledge points of dried tangerine peel:
1, look at the color, the real Xinhui dried tangerine peel, the color of the peel will gradually become dark brown red or dark gray black with the growth of the year. If what you see is dried tangerine peel, which is black and shiny, then this dried tangerine peel may be fake.
2, look at the oil bag, when buying Xinhui Chenpi, you turn on the portable light of the mobile phone, aim at the endothelium of Chenpi, and then see if the epidermis of Chenpi will have the same phenomenon, which is often called oil bag, mottled and evenly distributed.
3. Looking at the year, the dried tangerine peel less than 3 years old is called "orange peel". This kind of orange peel is mainly sour and slightly fruity. 3-5 years old Xinhui Chenpi has obvious fruit fragrance. 5- 10 Xinhui dried tangerine peel lost its fruity taste and showed an old taste. 10 years later, dried tangerine peel has no fragrance, only old fragrance. If you buy Xinhui dried tangerine peel, the merchant tells you that this dried tangerine peel has a history of 10 years, but what you smell is fruity and has no old fragrance, so you should buy it carefully at this time.