Turkish tea
Tea is one of the most important and most popular beverages in the world and is part of the culture of many peoples. Tea is known for its many benefits and its delicious taste. It contains many antioxidants such as tannin, guanine, purine, esters such as xanthine, caffeine, , And many minerals, such as potassium, manganese, fluoride, carbohydrates, and polyphenols.
Statistics show that the Turkish people are the world’s most consumed tea consumers. The Turks have a special way of making tea, making it a special flavor and using special tools to make it.
Benefits of Tea
- Useful for the heart and blood vessels.
- Protects the body from cancer infection, to enable it to eliminate the free radicals of the cells.
- Strengthens the body’s immunity.
- Boosts oral and dental hygiene, containing natural antibiotics such as polyphenols and tannins, which helps kill bacteria that cause tooth decay, and contains fluoride, which gives breathless breath to the mouth.
- Strengthens memory, stimulates brain and nerve work, contains caffeine, stimulates the nervous system, and is a booster booster to the energy and efficiency of the body.
- Useful for the digestive system, because it contains a substance called “tannins”, which facilitate digestion, and helps the stomach and intestines to get rid of toxins, and prevent the incidence of diarrhea, and reduces the activity of bacteria in the intestine, reduces intestinal inflammation, and relieve irritable bowel syndrome.
- Useful for bone health, connective tissue.
- Helps in weight loss.
- Reduces the harmful cholesterol in the body and the level of triglyceride in the blood.
- Delays the onset of diabetes in the body.
- It helps protect skin from sunburn and reduce dark circles under the eye.
How Turkish Tea Works
Ingredients
- Original Turkish tea.
- Special pitcher for Turkish tea.
- Special cups for drinking Turkish tea “You can use the cups of tea known.”
- Water .
- Sugar to taste.
- Fresh mint.
How to prepare
- Put the water in the bottom of the Turkish pitcher – the special teapot – and raise it on the fire until the water boils.
- Put a tablespoon of Turkish tea, in the top part of the Turkish teapot, add boiling water to it.
- Add more water to the bottom of the pitcher and leave on low heat for a quarter of an hour until the tea is soaked and ready at the top, due to steam rising from the bottom.
- Add sugar to taste.
- Put tea in special serving cups, and add fresh mint leaves “as desired”.