Jasmine Green Tea

Green tea comes in many varieties and flavors. Every fan of it enjoys it in a different way. It’s perfectly understandable why this tea enjoys such a high popularity – green tea is one of the healthiest kinds of tea, and it’s able to give great health benefits to your body easily.

Green tea is packed full of antioxidants, and those in it are actually the strongest antioxidants that we currently know about – ten times as strong as those in Vitamin C, actually! Additionally, green tea is known to stimulate skin cell recovery, and people who drink it regularly usually have stronger, more elastic skin that looks better too.

Add a Little Jasmine Touch

A special mixture of green tea and Jasmine leaves exists, and it bears the name Jasmine Green Tea. What it is in its essence, is just green tea leaves mixed with Jasmine ones to create an interesting and unique aroma.

The process is not a complicated one: Jasmine flowers are picked during the day, and are left in a cool, dry place overnight. As the night falls, the Jasmine flowers start blooming really quickly and strongly, and by the morning, they’ve developed their full fragrance. In the morning, green tea leaves are spread out, and the Jasmine leaves are layered over them and left like that for a while.

The result is a unique combination of the fresh aroma of Jasmine flowers, and the strong scent of green tea. It’s a truly magnificent mixture that anyone must try at some point in their lives.

The quality of the final product depends mainly on the quality of green tea leaves used in the process – Jasmine doesn’t vary that wildly in its fragrance.

A common mistake for novice tea makers is to use too much Jasmine flowers, which tips the flavor balance towards Jasmine way too much, and results in some loss of quality. Generally, a thin layer of Jasmine flowers over the green tea leaves will be sufficient.

All The Other Flavors

Jasmine Green Tea is great, but there are so much more kinds of green tea for you to try – one special kind is called Gunpowder tea, and it takes its name from its shape – leaves are rolled into tiny granules, which resemble old gunpowder.

This allows them to preserve their freshness much longer, but the taste of the tea tends to be a bit grassy – in the end, it boils down to personal preference.