铁观音品种分类 　安溪铁观音的保健功效

　铁观音品种分类

　　铁观音成品依发酵程度和制作工艺，大致可以分清香型、浓香型、陈香型等三大类型。

　　1、清香型铁观音

　　清香型口感比较清淡、舌尖略带微甜，偏向现代工艺制法，目前在市场上的占有量最多。清香型铁观音颜色翠绿，汤水清澈，香气馥郁，花香明显，口味醇正。由于新茶性寒，不可过多饮用，否则会有一定程度的伤胃、失眠。

　　2、浓香型铁观音

　　浓香型口味醇厚、香气高长、比较重回甘，是传统工艺炒制的茶叶经烘焙再加工而成产品。浓香型铁观音具有“香、浓、醇、甘”等特点，色泽乌亮，汤色金黄，香气纯正、滋味厚重，相对清香型而言，浓香型铁观音性温，有止渴生津、健脾暖胃等功效。

　　3、陈香型铁观音

　　陈香型又称老茶或熟茶，由浓香型或清香型铁观音经长时间储存，并反复再加工而成，亦属半发酵茶叶。陈香型铁观音具有“厚、醇、润、软”等特点，表现为色泽乌黑，汤水浓郁，绵甜甘醇，沉香凝韵。其特质和口味接近普洱茶及红茶、黑茶，且有沉重的历史与文化沉淀。

　　炭焙的铁观音，是铁观音浓香的一种，这也是成品乌龙茶加工的最后一道改变质量的工序，是铁观音清香型的茶叶在经过用木炭后的焙制过程。焙制的时间、次数与火候看个人口感和市场而定。

　　铁观音的保健功效

　　1、减肥瘦身

　　铁观音是可以减肥瘦身的，很多人在吃完油腻的食物的食物之后，会感到很难受，这个可以喝一点铁观音，可以减少血脂和胆固醇，对瘦身有帮助。

　　2、抗衰老

　　铁观音的功效成分茶多酚不仅可提高脂肪分解酶的作用，而且可促进组织的中性脂肪酶的代谢活动。因而饮用铁观音能改善肥胖者的体型，有效减少肥胖者的皮下脂肪和腰围，从而减轻其体重。

　　3、防治龋齿

　　铁观音茶叶中的氟化物极易与牙齿中的钙质相结合，在牙齿表面形成一层氟化钙，起到防酸抗龋的作用。由此可见，饮用铁观音对未得龋齿的人有预防作用，对已得龋齿的人有治疗作用。

　　4、杀菌止痢

　　安溪民间早有效铁观音治疗痢疾和脖子痛，古代医学书本也有不少记实操作茶叶来治疗细菌性痢疾、赤痢、白痢、急性肠炎、急性胃炎。铁观音能起到杀菌止痢浸染，首要是茶多酚进入胃肠道后，能败坏求助的肠道，凝固肠道卵白质，使得细菌即行衰亡，因而能有用治疗肠炎。

　　5、清热降火

　　饮用安溪铁观音能润泽口腔，生津止渴，还能清热降火。据报道，饮用一杯热茶通过出汗披发的热量，相等于这杯茶的50倍，能使人风凉解暑。

Classification of Tieguanyin varieties

According to the degree of fermentation and the production process, the finished products of Tieguanyin can be roughly divided into three types: light fragrance, strong fragrance, and old fragrance.

1. Fragrant Tieguanyin

The fragrance type is relatively light in taste, slightly sweet on the tip of the tongue, and tends to be made by modern technology, and currently has the largest share in the market. The fragrance-type Tieguanyin is green in color, the soup is clear, the aroma is fragrant, the floral fragrance is obvious, and the taste is mellow. Due to the cold nature of new tea, do not drink too much, otherwise it will hurt the stomach and insomnia to a certain extent.

2. Luzhou-flavored Tieguanyin

The Luzhou-flavor type has a mellow taste, a high aroma, and a relatively sweet taste. It is a product of traditionally roasted tea leaves that are roasted and then processed. The strong-flavor Tieguanyin has the characteristics of "fragrant, thick, mellow and sweet". The color is dark and bright, the soup is golden, the aroma is pure and the taste is thick. The spleen warms the stomach and other effects.

3. Chen Xiang type Tieguanyin

Chen-flavored tea, also known as old tea or cooked tea, is made from strong-flavored or light-flavored Tieguanyin after long-term storage and repeated reprocessing. It is also a semi-fermented tea. Chenxiang type Tieguanyin has the characteristics of "thick, mellow, moist and soft", which is characterized by black color, rich soup, sweet and mellow, and agarwood condensed. Its characteristics and taste are close to Pu-erh tea, black tea, and dark tea, and it has a heavy historical and cultural precipitation.

Charcoal-roasted Tieguanyin is a kind of strong fragrance of Tieguanyin. This is also the last process of changing the quality of finished oolong tea. It is the roasting process of Tieguanyin tea with charcoal. The time, frequency and heat of roasting depends on personal taste and market.

Health benefits of Tieguanyin

1. Lose weight

Tieguanyin can help you lose weight. Many people feel uncomfortable after eating greasy food. Drinking a little Tieguanyin can reduce blood fat and cholesterol, which is helpful for weight loss.

2. Anti-aging

The functional component of Tieguanyin tea polyphenols can not only improve the function of lipolytic enzymes, but also promote the metabolic activity of neutral lipase in tissues. Therefore, drinking Tieguanyin can improve the body shape of obese people, effectively reduce the subcutaneous fat and waist circumference of obese people, thereby reducing their weight.

3. Prevention and treatment of dental caries

The fluoride in Tieguanyin tea is very easy to combine with the calcium in the teeth, forming a layer of calcium fluoride on the surface of the teeth, which plays the role of anti-acid and anti-caries. It can be seen that drinking Tieguanyin has a preventive effect on people who have not had caries, and has a therapeutic effect on those who have caries.

4. Sterilize and stop dysentery

Tieguanyin has long been effective in treating dysentery and neck pain in Anxi folks. Ancient medical books also have many records of using tea leaves to treat bacillary dysentery, red dysentery, pullorum, acute enteritis, and acute gastritis. Tieguanyin can sterilize and stop dysentery. The main reason is that after tea polyphenols enter the gastrointestinal tract, they can destroy the intestinal tract and coagulate the intestinal protein, so that the bacteria die immediately, so it can effectively treat enteritis.

5. Clear heat and reduce fire

Drinking Tieguanyin can moisten the mouth, promote fluid and quench thirst, and also clear away heat and reduce fire. According to reports, drinking a cup of hot tea through sweating heat is equivalent to 50 times that of this cup of tea, which can make people cool and relieve the heat.