Tea beverage is hard to find "tea trail" experts remind: can not be tea drinking.
Lu net May 6th news (reporter Wang Wenting) as the weather turned hot, tea beverage became a hot selling product, occupied half of the beverage market, some people simply use it instead of tea to solve the summer heat. How much tea is there in the tea drink? Reporters visited a number of supermarkets in Ji'nan today, and found that most of these tea drinks were not seen in the ingredient list. Experts have warned that tea drinks can not be served as tea.
tea beverage sales are far ahead of the
the reporter visited many supermarkets in Ji'nan. There are ten or twenty kinds of tea drinks. Besides the common green tea and black tea, there are also Tieguanyin, oolong tea, jasmine tea, and tea containing drinks including milk tea.
"when the summer comes, the sales of tea drinks will go up." The salesman of a supermarket drink area on Lishan road said that especially the frozen tea can not be sold. "Almost 40% of the total beverage market share."
"tea drinks are the most popular among all kinds of drinks, followed by carbonated drinks." A salesman at a large supermarket on Wen Wen Road said.
"when the weather is hot, you don't want to drink the brewing tea. The more you drink, the hotter you get, the more tea you drink, the more fragrant you can get." Mr. Sun, who is buying tea drinks, said that his family liked tea very much.
tea drink composition table did not indicate the content of tea polyphenols
the reporter saw that most of these tea drinks, most of which are not identified in the composition table, are the most important nutritional components of tea beverage - the content of tea polyphenols.
in the beverage area of a large supermarket, there are nearly ten kinds of tea drinks. The reporter carefully check, most of these tea drinks in the packaging on the "original tea", "tea polyphenols" and other words, in the composition table marked with water, white sugar, food additives, edible essence, sodium citrate, vitamins and so on. The content of tea polyphenols, which is related to tea components, is not clearly labeled. Only two kinds of tea beverages marked "tea polyphenols content greater than 200 mg / kg", "tea polyphenols content is more than 450 mg / kg" and so on.
the reporter then consulted the salesperson. "How much tea is there in the tea drink? How to view it? " The salesman said that there was a label on the package. The reporter consulted a brand of tea that did not mark tea polyphenols, and the salesperson was not clear about it.
tea drinks can not be used as tea to drink
"tea polyphenols are one of the main ingredients to form tea color and fragrance, but also one of the main components of health care in tea. It also has the effect of detoxification and radiation resistance." Mr. Liu, who has been engaged in tea planting and sales for many years, said that the content of tea polyphenols in tea drinks (tea soup) is that the content of tea polyphenols in tea drinks should be 500 mg / kg, and that the content of polyphenols in Oolong tea should be 400 mg / kg; black tea, flower tea and other tea polyphenols should be 300 mg / kg; fruit The content of tea polyphenols in the flavoring beverage of juice, fruit flavour, milk and milk taste should be 200 mg / kg, and the content of polyphenols in carbonated flavoring tea beverage should be 100 mg / kg. "But this standard most consumers do not know, and the national standard does not require the product packaging on the clear content, so many manufacturers also hit the 'edge ball."
"I don't agree with people drinking tea instead of tea." Liu said that no matter how much tea ingredients there are in tea drinks, tea can not be replaced by boiling water. "Tea drinks contain a variety of food additives and sugar, and can only serve as casual drinks. Tea contains good natural vitamins and minerals, which is beneficial to the body after drinking.