We invite you to see a video of our Oolong Tea Masters at work and take an insider peek into how we produce your fabled Wu Yi Oolong Tea. Find out the relationship between Oolong production and weight loss polyphenols. All is revealed below.

Our Oolong Tea Production Video

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Oolong Is A Difficult Child

Oolong tea is the most difficult of all teas to produce. This is because of the extra processes involved and the degree of knowledge required by a Tea Master to understand and perfect each process.

To take a simplistic view, a simple green tea may require no more than plucking the leaves with a quick steam and dry before it can be sold and a common black tea may just be oxidized for a certain period of time. As stated this is a simplification to illustrate a point and there is a lot of knowledge required in the production of green and black teas.

Complications

The complications with Oolongs is that they use only part processes depending upon the level of oxidization required so obviously knowing when to say “stop” makes quite a difference! The leaves themselves are subjected to varying atmospheric conditions so no crop of plucked leaves are ever exactly the same. It is for this reason that to produce an excellent tea it is not possible to completely automate the process with a rigid checklist.

A good Tea Master has an inbuilt “feel” for what is right and this is demonstrated in the video above. Here’s a brief explanation of the various processes involved when making an Oolong tea.

Quick Note: With regard to the weight loss properties of Oolong tea it has been demonstrated that it is the Polyphenols are the important factor. More on this in another post but it is important to note that Polyphenols are produced by the process of oxidation and the level of oxidation is critical if you want an Oolong that can help you with natural weight loss. Too little oxidation and you have few beneficial weight loss polyphenols and too much oxidation and they have all disappeared.

The Great Oolong Wulong Tea Ripoff: It is a fact that most of the weight loss websites promoting Oolong tea actually have no idea what they are talking about. There are many, many people being ripped off by all the low quality tea dust being sold in bags on eBay specifically, and online in general. If they mention Oprah you know they are scamming you straight away.

Oolong Tea Production

After plucking of the buds and leaves, withering is the process of placing the leaves in the sun for eight or more hours which starts to dry the leaves.

The leaves are then gently bruised by shaking or rolling which starts the oxidation process. The production of low oxidation Oolongs would end here after being pan fried or perhaps air dried. This effectively ends the oxidation and manufacture of this Oolong variation.

A second variation demands slightly more oxidation and as can be seen on the diagram above the leaves are only partially dried and rolled. This rolling can be repeated many times before the leaves are given a final drying and perhaps a baking ending the oxidation process at approx 25%.

The third Oolong variation which produces a high level of oxidation means the Oolong is starting to approach something like a black tea. There is an additional wetting / softening process directly after the rolling. The leaves are then left to rest and dry out partially in the air before being re-rolled and going through a final drying process.

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