How Much Do You Know About the Astringent, Bitter, Umami, and Sweet Tastes of Tea?
How Much Do You Know About the Astringent, Bitter, Umami, and Sweet Tastes of Tea? The taste of tea is a comprehensive reflection of various flavor compounds in the tea infusion, including sugars, amino acids, polyphenols, and caffeine. Astringency mainly comes from ester-type catechins, bitterness from caffeine and anthocyanins, umami from amino acids (especially theanine , and s...

Tea News · May 28, 2026