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What’s the most flavorsome and healthiest tea? - Coggle Diagram
What’s the most flavorsome and healthiest tea?
What makes tea ___?
Flavoursome?
catechins
soluble in water
Acidic
Bitter
flavonols
soluble in water
Tastes Bitter
Amino Acids
L-theanine
Tastes Umami
Healthy?
Tannin
Acidic
Soluble in water
What is tea?
What is the pH of tea?
4.9-5.5 (Vahdam Teas)
Tea is a beverage produced by steeping young leaves and leaf buds of the tea plant,
Camellia Sinensis
in freshly boiled water. (Britannica)
What kinds of Teas are there?
Black
A fermentation of the leaves before drying
Green
Dried Leaves without a fermentation process
Herbal
A infusion of favorite herbs
Oolong
Semi-oxidation of tea leaves and drying
White
Minimal processed tea leaves
How to make tea?
Process of Steeping tea
Dried tea leaves are put into water
The leaves are rehydrated and the extraction of soluble compounds are dissolved. The driving force is the process of diffusion, where the concentration of these compounds move from the high concentration in leaves and the low concentration of the water (Tea Epicure)
What to test?
Independent Variable
Temperature of boiling water and how it effects the amount of compounds diffused into water over a period of time
Surface Area to Volume Ratio and how it effects the amount of compounds diffused into water over a period of time
Types of tea
Chamomile
Black Tea
White Tea
Green Tea
Dependent Variable
Titre Value
Controlled Variables
Time tea is steeped in water
Constant work environment
Same kind/brand of tea used
How to test ___?
Flavorsomeness
Tasting it
TItration
Healthiness
Titration
Back Titration
An experiment of multiple individuals
drinking different teas and observing
the effect on their Body Mass Index