Huangmei Lotus Leaf Tea

Huangmei Lotus Leaf Tea is a specialty of Huangmei County, Huanggang City, Hubei Province. The lotus leaf has the functions of cooling blood, lowering fat, producing fluid, and moistening the intestines. Li Shizhen said that drinking often is "slim." Lotus leaf tea is made from the natural lotus lake - Longgan Lake (ancient name: Leichi) wild lotus leaf, and is refined by 17 procedures such as "chopping, cool green, killing green, simmering, frying dry".

The yellow plum lotus leaf tea "light yellow and bright, the product is soft and mellow, the lotus fragrance is long and long...", with the characteristics of "fragrance, taste, shape, and bubble resistance". Introduction of lotus leaf tea: Since ancient times, China has regarded lotus leaf as a good medicine for slimming. It is recorded in the Ming Dynasty "Compendium of Materia Medica". "The lotus leaf rises in yang, removes fat and slims, spreads blood, and benefits the heart. "Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" also said: often drink lotus leaf tea is "slim." There are eight effects such as “lowering fat, weight loss, fat-reducing and fat-reducing, revitalizing and rejuvenating skin, detoxifying and nourishing skin, cooling blood and lowering fire, laxative body, blood pressure diuresis, hemostasis and solidification”. Huangmei County has a national-level wetland protection zone - Longgan Lake natural lotus leaf base more than 30,000 acres, with an annual output of 2.8 million kilograms of lotus leaves and lotus seeds. The county actively introduced foreign merchants to jointly develop lotus leaf tea project. After many efforts, the merchants invested 20 million yuan to set up Hubei Xing embroidery mother food limited liability company in Dasheng Guanshan Industrial Park of the county, successfully producing lotus leaf tea, the products are in short supply, and the market prospect is promising. . In August 2012, Xing embroidery mother lotus leaf tea was rated as China's red tourism brand product, and the county's Leichi brand lotus leaf tea was awarded the gold medal of the 17th China Food Expo. Currently, it is located in Hubei Xingxiu Niang Food Co., Ltd. in Dasheng Guanshan Industrial Park, Huangmei County. It is a comprehensive enterprise integrating planting, production, processing and sales. Its products have passed ISO9001 international quality management system and national food quality and safety QS certification. In recent years, the company has built modern, standardized workshops, purchased advanced processing and production equipment, combined traditional techniques with modern production models, and developed and produced pure natural health-care tea without any additives after being killed and baked. Xing embroidery mother brand green lotus series lotus leaf tea.

Technical requirements for quality of Huangmei lotus leaf tea 1. The wild lotus leaf of Longgan Lake area within the scope of raw material production. Second, picking from mid-May to mid-August, manual picking. Third, the processing technology 1. Process: cleaning → slitting → draining → killing (steam head green → spreading cold → steaming two green) → dehydration → 揉捻 → drying. 2. (2) Dehydration: hot baking, temperature 180 ° C to 220 ° C, time 20 minutes to 30 minutes. (3) Drying: first fire after the fire, the temperature of the fire is 100 ° C to 120 ° C, the time is 13 minutes to 16 minutes; the fire temperature is 70 ° C to 90 ° C, the time is 30 minutes to 40 minutes. Fourth, the quality characteristics 1. Sensory features: the shape is tightly rolled like a snail, fine and even, the color is grayish green, and there is a lotus leaf fragrance. 2. ) /% ≥1.03. Safety and other quality technical requirements: Product safety and other quality technical requirements must comply with relevant national regulations.

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Producers within the production area of ​​Huangmei Lotus Leaf may submit an application to the Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau of Huangmei County of Hubei Province for the use of the “Special Mark for Geographical Indication Products”, which shall be reviewed by the Hubei Provincial Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision and reported to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine for approval. . The testing mechanism of Huangmei Lotus Leaf Tea is selected by the Hubei Provincial Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision in the testing institutions that meet the qualification requirements.