Re: White tea

"Lewis Perin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ASchamisso) writes:
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> > THIS IS NOT AN ADVERTISEMENT!
> > :)
> >
> > Linus Pauling Institute Study on White Tea:
> >
> > http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/new/whitetea.html
>
> No, it isn't an ad, but it does claim that white tea is steamed, which
> is pretty strange.  It also asserts that white tea has a high bud
> content, which is true of some but hardly all white (or, for that
> matter green) teas.
>
> /Lew
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> Lew Perin / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Exactly. White tea is definitely not steamed. The process consist of
withering and low temperature drying. Polyphenolic components undergo a
light oxidation. I am not a chemist, but the author of the essay surely has
never entered in a tea manifacture.
L

Lew: I found out that also Shuixian bud and leaves can by processed in white
tea

By the way:
MARCO, are you from Italy?