Method of manufacturing a tea beverage olive tea that is manufactured by the manufacturing method and a method of olive tea as a main raw material

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide olive tea having mild taste and flavor, easy to drink while having greenery smell peculiar to olive leaves, slight astringency and bitterness, and to provide a tea beverage from which an olive tea beverage can be obtained, maintaining its clarity for a long period, and slightly causing contamination and precipitation. PSOLUTION: The olive tea is produced by the following processes: a steaming process where plucked olive leaves are steamed to deactivate an oxidizing enzyme, a cooling process where the steamed leaves are cooled by removing moisture on the surface of the leaves, a rolling process where the moisture content in the leaves is made uniform by rotating the leaves while pressing without a tea leaf-beating process and a rough rolling process respectively performed in an ordinary tea manufacturing processes, and a medium rolling process where hot air is given to the leaves while rolling the leaves. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO