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Tea Under the Microscope, So Beautiful!

Tea News · Jun 09, 2025

 Tea lovers drink tea every day, but have you ever wondered what tea leaves and tea soup look like under an electron microscope? Someone conducted an interesting experiment on tea, brewing several major types of Chinese tea in a standard way, taking out the tea soup most suitable for daily drinking and the fully expanded tea leaves, placing them on a slide, and observing them under a 1500x electron microscope...

Thus, a magical 'interstellar travel' journey begins

1

Raw Pu-erh Planet

Tea type: Yi Wu loose tea

Tea amount: 7g

Water amount: 110ml

First brew: 15 seconds

Fourth brew: 10 seconds (Fourth brew used for observing tea soup)

 


 

Raw Pu-erh tea soup: I am opaque, with many small black dots.

The tea soup of raw Pu-erh does not have transparent round dots but tends to have black spots, which are irregular in shape.

 


 

Raw Pu-erh tea leaves: Like glass balls covered in mud.

The texture of raw Pu-erh tea leaves resembles dried, darkened soil, without bubbles or stripe shapes.

 


 

2

Ripe Pu-erh Planet

Tea type: Yi Wu ripe Pu-erh

Tea amount: 7g

Water amount: 110ml

First brew: 5 seconds

Fourth brew: 10 seconds (Fourth brew used for observing tea soup)

 


 

Ripe Pu-erh tea soup: I am a lonely little planet in the Milky Way.

The transparent round dots in ripe Pu-erh tea soup are not distributed throughout the image but appear in a line like the Milky Way, reminiscent of flowing water.

 


 

Ripe Pu-erh tea leaves: The upper half looks like water ripples, and the lower half resembles mountain ridges, with distinct features!

 


 

3

Green Tea Planet

Tea type: Lu An Gua Pian

Tea amount: 3g

Water amount: 110ml

First brew: 15 seconds

Second brew: 20 seconds (Second brew used for observation)

 


 

Green tea soup: Looks calm but is actually turbulent.

The green tea soup appears solidified on the slide but is constantly flowing under the microscope.

 


 

Green tea leaves: Numerous straight lines form countless irregular shapes.

 


 

4

White Tea Planet

Tea type: Bai Mu Dan

Tea amount: 3g

Water amount: 110ml

First brew: 15 seconds

Second brew: 10 seconds (Second brew used for observation)

 


 

White tea soup: The most dynamic water ripples are here.

The white tea soup is very thin, and some of the mottled patterns are actually from the slide, but its round dots are not obvious, almost transparent.

 


 

White tea leaves: Small bubbles shine like stars.

 


 

5

Black Tea Planet

Tea type: Dian Hong

Tea amount: 3g

Water amount: 110ml

First brew: 10 seconds

Second brew: 10 seconds (Second brew used for observation)

 


 

Black tea soup: The tea soup with the most round dots in the tea family, you know? The black tea soup shows many round dots, densely packed.

 


 

Black tea leaves: Don't think I'm Mars!

After 1500x magnification, black tea leaves look like small hills standing on the leaves or clouds floating above.

 


 

6

Yellow Tea Planet

Tea type: Meng Ding Huang Ya

Tea amount: 3g

Water amount: 110ml

First brew: 15 seconds

Second brew: 10 seconds (Observe tea soup, observe leaves after fifth brew)

 


 

Yellow tea soup: I will represent the 'moon' to eliminate you!

Although not much different from green tea, it is indeed yellow tea, with very small green dots, different from black tea.

 


 

Yellow tea leaves: My appearance is most like Earth, but I'm not the 'big cousin'.

 


 

7

Dark Tea Planet

Tea type: An Hua dark tea

Tea amount: 7g

Water amount: 110ml

First brew: 10 seconds

Fourth brew: 10 seconds (Fourth brew used for observing tea soup)

 


 

Dark tea soup: Full of irregular small round dots, so beautiful!

The round dots in dark tea are the most attractive, varying in size and visually clear, with cell-like patterns inside the larger dots.

 


 

Dark tea leaves: The stripe patterns are very special!

Under the microscope, dark tea leaves do not show bubbles or circular patterns but uniform stripe patterns, resembling wood grain.

 


 

8

Oolong Tea Planet

Tea type: Niu Lan Keng Rou Gui

Tea amount: 3g

Water amount: 110ml

First brew: 10 seconds

Third brew: 10 seconds (Third brew used for observing tea soup)

 


 

Oolong tea soup: The most stable liquid inside.

 


 

Oolong tea leaves: The mysterious spiral shapes are very enticing.

Different from previous tea leaves, the leaves do not have water bubbles but are composed of circles of different sizes, some single circles, and some semi-closed curves and circles combined.

 


 
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