Brick dark tea: a review of the manufacture, chemical constituents and bioconversion of the major chemical components during fermentation

Phytochemistry Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 499-523

  Zheng, Wen Jun ^a   Wan, Xiao Chun ^a   Bao, Guan Hu ^a  

^a ANHUI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biochemical conversion; Brick dark tea (BDT); Chemical components; Fuzhuan brick tea (FBT); Processing

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; BENZENE; CAFFEINE; CATECHIN; CYTOSINE; EMODIN; EPICATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN; ETHYLBENZENE; FRIEDELIN; GALLIC ACID; GALLOCATECHIN; GENTISIC ACID; HEXADECANE; LIMONENE; LINOLENIC ACID; MATAIRESINOL; MYRCENE; NAPHTHALENE; OCTANOL; ORTHO CRESOL; PENTANOL; PHYSCION; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; PYROGALLOL; TERPINENE; THYMINE; TOLUENE; UNINDEXED DRUG; URACIL;

BIOTRANSFORMATION; BRICK DARK TEA; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHINA; DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION TECHNIQUE; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; HUMIDITY; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEA;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS;

EID: 84929955719     PISSN: 15687767     EISSN: 1572980X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11101-015-9402-8     Document Type: Review

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