Artificial flavor & tea

Today, one of my friend gave me some Chinese Oolong tea from HongKong
- Fenghuang Shuixian. Oh such a beautiful long twisted leaves, full of
fruity fragrance. But he also told me, now a days lots of teas are
scented by artificial fruity flavor. They just use the lapsang
Souchong style- spray artificial fruity smell on dry tea leaves,
especially Oolong, rose and jasmine tea. Too bad.

Would like to know your comments. Thanks.

Ripon
(Dhaka, Bangladesh)

"Ripon" <nstextil@dhaka.net> wrote in message
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> Today, one of my friend gave me some Chinese Oolong tea from HongKong
> - Fenghuang Shuixian. Oh such a beautiful long twisted leaves, full of
> fruity fragrance. But he also told me, now a days lots of teas are
> scented by artificial fruity flavor. They just use the lapsang
> Souchong style- spray artificial fruity smell on dry tea leaves,
> especially Oolong, rose and jasmine tea. Too bad.
>
> Would like to know your comments. Thanks.
>
An abomination!

Agalena

If I'm not mistaken, Ripon was talking about secretly scenting oolongs
with fruit flavors to make the teas seem to be fruitier. A way to
"cheat." If this is indeed true, it is a crime in my book.