Will i start to like green tea after a while?
Friday, July 9th, 2010 at
6:15 am
I want to start drinking green tea but i dont like the taste of it. I love normal tea and have been drinking it since i was very young (Im 16 now). If i drink green tea everyday will i start to like it? How long will it take before i start to like it? Thanks
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Most people begin to like it after they’ve been drinking it for a while. It’s kind of like beer or wine, most people don’t like the taste of those things right away either but it grows on you.
You can always sweeten it up with a little honey — or better still, try some white tea. It has even more health benefits than green tea and is naturally sweet.
I’m assuming that since you don’t like the taste but continue to drink it – that you are doing so for the added health benefits. While it is true that there are health benefits to be had from drinking green tea, these health benefits are greatly increased by eating the whole tea leaf. Most of the antioxidants are not transferred over to the water in brewed tea. In fact there are 95 times more antioxidants in the whole leaf than brewed tea. Finding ways to work the whole leaf into your diet is going to give you more of the plant’s nutrition. Depending on how you use it, it’s flavor can be easily masked too. http://www.eatgreentea.com/category/tea-recipes/
You will definitely get used to it. It used to make me feel sick at first, but I got used to the taste a small teaspoon of sugar will help. It will take around 2 weeks to get used to the taste.
Yeah, you will start to like it after a few days. I think it would be better if you add first some milk and sugar to go with it then you can stop adding it when you got used to the taste.
I had to get myself used to green tea over the course of a few weeks – it took me a while to find a good brand (some are really really bitter), plus I found that if I only kept the tea bag in the hot water for a short time and didn’t squeeze the bag, this also prevented that bitterness that you can get.
I now love green tea and find regular tea….heavy. That’s the only way I can think to describe the difference.
You may if you flavor it right. I didn’t like it at first either, green tea has a green flavor and not anything like black tea. I learned to put lemon juice or mint in it when I make it and that gives it great flavor. I drink it because it makes me feel better.
start drinking sweetened green tea then when you start to get used to it switch over to unsweetened.
you’ll start to like it. just like any other food or drink your taste buds start to adapt to it. green tea is really good for you too. it’s proven to assist in weight loss, and i’m pretty sure it cleanses your intestines too.
I personally think it’s an acquired taste, so yes you will get used to it. For now, add a bit of sugar or honey and slowly reduce the amount each time.
Tea is a very complex, refined, and beautiful art. While many people drink it as a fast and convenient drink like coffee, and without much regard to the many senses to which tea can appeal, there are others who enjoy savoring the subtle differences in each individual tea. Before I became interested in tea, I was just like you probably are now, unaware that there is a whole art behind tea. Below is a general summary of what I have learned about tea in my relatively short time that I have been exposed to the tea world. It is mostly a compilation of the many answers I have given to people on this website asking questions very similar to yours, and while it is lengthy, I suggest that you read it in order to open your awareness to a whole new way of thinking about something that you might have taken for granted before. I hope it answers your question thoroughly enough!
I will always recommend loose leaf tea. When you use bagged tea, all you have are the tea fannings and dust, whereas with loose leaf, you have the whole leaf. Using anything less than the whole leaf would be a major factor in having bitter tea. Loose leaf tea tends to have a superior quality and flavor and will help you to find the tea that you like. There are also many more types of tea out there then you would probably think including the literally thousands of varieties of each of the six general types: white, green, yellow, oolong, black, and pu-erh.
It is very important to prepare teas properly, even when using bagged tea. When you use tea bags, many of the same principles apply as loose-leaf tea, including the temperature of the water and the amount of time spent steeping. For green tea, the water temperature should be around 170-180º F / 76-82º C (temperature is crucial), and it should be steeped for less than 2 minutes. Also, you should use only one cup (8 oz) of water per tea bag so that the tea won’t be too light or too strong. Do not add anything (including milk or sugar) to your teas, especially the first time you try them. Doing so tends to ruin the flavor of most teas and make them unpalatable. There are very few flavors/scents that go well with teas and almost none of them can be done at home. If you want flavored/scented tea, you will probably have to buy it pre-flavored. Preparing the tea properly can have a major effect on the final quality of the tea. I’m sure that once you learn to prepare it in the right way, you will come to love it.
I never add anything to my tea; I enjoy savoring the unique and subtle differences in each tea, noticing the differences according to where the tea was grown/prepared, when it was plucked, and how it was brewed, among many other variables. There’s no way I can choose just one favorite tea, but I would recommend Tieguanyin Anxi "Monkey Picked" oolong. It’s one of my favorite oolongs. I love the deep, richly sweet flavor and the very fresh, stone-fruit aroma. Soft yet complex, this wild-grown Tieguanyin is oxidized slightly less than the traditional 50-70%, more like the modern-style Tieguanyins. This is the type of oolong that is often referred to as ‘Monkey-picked Oolong’, one of the more confusing terms in all of Chinese tea vernacular. I tend to believe the tales of tea-plucking in such remote places and on such rugged terrain that it required the assistance of trained monkeys to access the plants. The fable is also considered to be a possible antithesis to the white tea of the Emperors, plucked only by white-silk-gloved-virgins. Who knows definitively about the lore, but the tea tastes fantastic!
If you start using loose-leaf tea (which is a much better value when compared to bagged tea), you should do some research on the proper brewing techniques (such as on this webpage: http://www.cooksshophere.com/products/Product_Info/tea-steeping.htm ) to be able to enjoy your tea to the fullest extent.
In order to make loose leaf tea you will need a few things. Most importantly, you will need quality water. The quality of your water greatly affects the quality of your finished tea, so much so that the same tea prepared with different water types can taste and look like two completely different teas. I have done many experiments with water for tea, and I have found that natural spring water works the best. You want your water to be very pure and free of most minerals, but you don’t want it to be too pure. Tea needs some amount of minerals in the water to really bring out the flavor. I have tried tea with distilled water (which is pure H2O and has nothing else in it) and was very dissatisfied with the taste. You don’t want to use tap water as it will have many minerals and/or chlorine and other chemicals depending on where you live. You could use a reverse-osmosis water filter on your sink or another generic kind of filter to get pure water, but I have never tried these methods. I simply buy gallons of spring water that I use solely for my tea.
There are so many different types of tea out there and so many different ways of preparing each one, weather in formal ceremonies or just everyday drinking, that it is hard to tell you what other materials you will need. If you just want materials for everyday drinking, I would recommend a good teapot, a strainer, a second (lower quality) teapot, small teacups (about 6 oz), an electric or stovetop water heater, a thermometer that you can find the temperature of your heating water with, and a timer.
While there are many different types of teapots each with their own qualities, I would recommend a cast iron or ceramic. These are pretty generic and can be used with most any type of tea. You would need either a strainer to place over the second teapot while pouring the finished tea from the first pot into it to block the leaves, or a basket infuser inside the first teapot. I recommend the former as it will allow the leaves to unfurl fully in the pot and give better overall flavor.
Obviously, you will also need quality tea leaves. This may seem easy enough, but it is actually hard to find quality leaf at the proper price for that quality. One tea website I have found that has quality leaf and price can be found here: http://www.teatrekker.com/main.htm . I also recommend reading up on the subject of tea. There are many different tea books out there explaining so many interesting things about tea that you probably have never known about. Most of them have different explanations on how to brew tea properly, so it is interesting to see what they have to say. They also will usually explain about the many different tea ceremonies that exist, and what you will need for them. I recommend "The Story of Tea" by the owners of the tea shop I mentioned above.
On a side note, any "tea" made from anything other than the Camellia sinensis (tea bush) is not a tea, and should not be referred to as tea. This means that the beverages commonly referred to as "herbal teas" are not really teas at all, but are "herbal tisanes." The only types of tea are white, yellow, green, oolong, black, and pu-erh–they all come from the tea plant, and it is how the leaves are processed that yields the many different types. Do not mistake herbal tisanes for teas. Herbal tisanes do not have nearly the same characteristics or qualities that tea does, so they should not be thought of as the same, nor should they be compared to each other.
Enjoy your journey into the Tea World!