Saed News: Black Tea Alone Is A Delightful Drink, But By Adding A Few Natural Ingredients, You Can Multiply Its Flavor Many Times And Enrich Your Tea-Drinking Experience.
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Tea is the most consumed beverage worldwide and the most popular drink among Iranians, with most Iranians drinking it daily. Drinking a cup of tea relieves the fatigue and stress of a workday. If you are a tea lover, you can make your tea more enjoyable and beneficial by adding various flavorings such as cardamom, cinnamon, saffron, dried fruits, and more. In this section, we will tell you which flavorings you can add to black tea and what benefits they have.
Cardamom tea is one of the most common types of tea in Middle Eastern countries. To prepare this tea, add cardamom in the desired amount to the teapot and let it brew.
Cardamom is the second most expensive spice in the world and has a warm and dry nature. It soothes irritable bowel syndrome, eliminates bad breath, helps maintain a balanced weight, promotes heart health, and induces happiness and a good mood.
Cinnamon is a flavoring that enhances the taste of tea. To make cinnamon tea, add cinnamon along with black tea leaves to the teapot, pour boiling water over it, and let it brew for 10 minutes.
Cinnamon has a warm and dry nature and is beneficial for weight loss, people with cold temperaments, and for treating various diseases such as cancer, fever, malaria, stomach issues, nausea, and more.
Saffron tea is one of the tastiest and most popular teas. To prepare saffron tea, mix some saffron with regular tea and brew. Note that the amount of saffron depends on personal taste.
Saffron has a warm and dry nature and many benefits. One of the most important properties of saffron is its calming and mood-enhancing effect, significantly improving people's mood.
Many people add Damask rose petals to black tea for flavor. To prepare, add some rose petals to black tea and brew.
Damask rose and rosewater have a warm nature and numerous medicinal benefits such as eliminating bad breath, relieving constipation, fighting infections, aiding weight loss, and more.
You can flavor your tea using various dried fruits. One common way to prepare fruit tea is to add fruit flavors to common teas like black tea.
Fruit teas are usually rich in vitamin C, which helps boost your immune system. Adding fruit to tea also reduces sugar consumption, which is beneficial for patients and those who are overweight.
Ginger tea is popular worldwide. It has a warm and slightly spicy flavor with a pleasant aroma. To prepare, peel fresh ginger, slice it thinly, add it with some black tea to water, and let it brew on low heat for 20 minutes.
Ginger has a warm nature and is ideal for people with cold and moist temperaments. Ginger tea offers many benefits such as aiding digestion, reducing nausea, soothing cold and flu symptoms, and providing anti-inflammatory effects.
One of the most popular flavorings for black tea is citrus. You can add a slice of lemon, orange, or other citrus fruits to soften the bitterness of the tea and enjoy it with honey.
Add mint to black tea and brew to enjoy both its flavor and remarkable benefits. Mint has a warm and dry nature and many medicinal properties. It helps eliminate bad breath, prevent gum disease, and treat bloating, stomach cramps, nausea, and diarrhea.
Milk tea is a drink made by combining tea and milk. Traditionally, black tea is used to make milk tea, and adding milk reduces the bitterness of black tea. Milk is not used in large amounts and acts as a flavoring. You can also use plant-based milks like almond, soy, or coconut milk instead of dairy milk.
You can add jasmine flowers to tea for flavor. Jasmine tea has a fragrant aroma and a sweet, delicate taste. Drinking jasmine tea can reduce the risk of heart disease, brain failure, and some cancers, and it helps with weight loss, oral health, and brain function.
Maple trees store starch during cold seasons, which gradually turns into sap that rises to the tree trunk in late winter or early spring. This sap can be harvested by making holes in the tree trunk.
Maple syrup’s important benefits include heart protection, antioxidant properties, cancer prevention, anti-aging, improved digestion, and cold treatment.
Many people add berries like strawberries, raspberries, mulberries, and blueberries to black tea. Adding berries imparts a sweet and sour flavor, giving tea a fresh and summery feeling.
Stevia is a natural sweetener extracted from the leaves of the stevia plant. If you love drinking black tea but usually add sugar or sweeteners, stevia is the best alternative. With zero sugar and calories, stevia is the ideal choice for everyone, especially those with weight issues, diabetes, or heart conditions.
