I am so proud to introduce about this very special unique tea to you.
This golden flower dark tea only found in my hometown Hunan Anhua in the central of China, where deep inside the mountains.
The yellow fungi formed in the tea you can visibly see called “golden flower” make the tea so special. So much information about the benefits of this tea from the fungi ‘Eurotium cristatum’ in Chinese on Baidu, but we couldn’t find much official statement on google, few pieces you can find.
Here what I share is just some of my personal experiences.
My grandparents, my father they were tea farmer, my earlier life mostly related to the tea, I wake up in the morning, go to pick up the tea before the school, check the dehydrate level of the tea leaves before the bed. Our 90% income depend on the tea…
Now the cousins, relatives who live there are still tea farmers.
The day I decide to bring this tea to you is that I come cross a tea shop in Madison CT.
One day I went to the Savvy Tea Gourmet in the Madison, a fine tea shop with hundreds type of tea from all over the world. I was so surprised saw the little dark bricks are displayed in the front entrance of the shop called ‘Golden flower dark tea’, the girl told me that is the best seller in their shop. How excited to see the tea from my hometown!
I went back again to meet the owner Philip. He is such knowledgeable, such an expert about tea.
About 10 years ago, he got a suite case of 100 Golden flower dark tea with him travelled back to U.S., over 1 year, he didn’t sell any of them, after two years, he sold few pieces; Then that few people who drunk the tea felt big different with their health. One of them gave feedback that the tea really helpful for his health condition but really not taste good.
Nowadays the Golden flower become the most popular one because of that few people gave it a try, they spread the information out to their family, their friends. Even the doctors recommend the patients to drink this dark tea. By the way, he did some change to make the tea taste great without reduce the benefit of the tea.If you live in that area, I encourage you to check the Savvy Tea shop out. They have weekend tea tasting events, you may like to listen to the story told by Mr. Philip. You can also check out their web:https://savvyteagourmet.com/golden-flower/.
Anyway, After the story I heard from Mr. Philip. I decide to share our great golden flower dark tea with you, the tea from my hometown, from our own family tea farm.
Eurotium cristatum, a new fungi probiotic from Fuzhuan brick tea, alleviated obesity in mice by modulating gut microbiota
Obesity is one of the major public health problems worldwide, mainly resulting from unhealthy lifestyles and diet. Gut microbiota dysbiosis may also lead to obese humans and animals. Modulating gut bacteria through fecal transplantation, the use of probiotics or certain dietary supplements, could normalize gut microbiota and subsequently alleviate obesity. Daily consumption of Fuzhuan brick tea (FBT) or its extracts have been observed to alleviate obesity in humans and experimental animals. In this study, high-fat diet-induced dysbiosis of gut microbiota in C57BL/6J mice was partially reversed by consumption of Eumtium cristatum, the dominant fungi during the manufacturing and storage of FBT. E. cristatum was able to modulate both gut fungi and bacteria composition, based on the analysis of microbiota composition of mice fecal samples. E. cristatum increased acetate and butyrate-producing bacteria in mice gut, and produced five times more butyrate than both obese and normal mice. Our results suggested that E. cristatum may be used as a fungi probiotic to beneficially modulate gut microbiota and to alleviate obesity in humans.
Source from:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/518068v2
E.cristatum is a sexual type of Aspergillus cristatus
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