Feel like a cup of tea, but don’t have the time to brew one up? Pop a "tea pill" instead. Indian tea scientists have produced a tea-flavored pill that can be chewed or quickly dissolved in hot or cold water. The brownish tablet weighs 0.3 grams and consists of 80 percent tea and 20 percent other flavors - a combination the inventors at the Tocklai tea research center in India’s northeastern Assam state say peps you up just like a traditional cuppa. "You can suck it, chew it or dissolve it in water the way you like to have it and still feel the taste of a real cup of tea," said the center’s director, Mridul Hazarika. "As the liquid tea refreshes, this tea pill will also refresh the people because it contains pure tea ingredients." Hazarika said the center had applied for a patent and the pill, with a bit more fine tuning, should hit the market in six months. Indians drink a lot of tea but in recent years its tea business, the world’s largest, has faced growing competition from soft drinks.
想喝茶却又没有时间泡一杯吗?那就来一颗“茶丸”吧。印度的茶叶科学家已经制造出了一种茶叶味道的丸子,可以嚼服,同时又能迅速在热水或冷水中溶解。这种褐色的丸子重0.3克,由80%的茶和20%的其他香料组成。它的发明者来自印度东北部阿萨姆邦的托克莱茶叶研究中心,他们认为茶叶与香料的这种组合能像传统的杯泡茶一样振奋人的精神。“你可以吮吸它、咀嚼它,也可以按你喜欢的方式把它化在水里。不管怎样,你都能感受到跟一杯真正的茶相同的滋味,”该中心主任姆里达尔·哈扎里卡说。“液体的茶令人神清气爽,这种茶丸也有同样的功效,因为其中含有提纯的茶叶成分。” 哈扎里卡还说,中心已经为此申请了专利,而茶丸将在稍经改良之后于六个月内上市。印度人喝茶喝得很多,印度的茶叶产业也位居世界第一。不过,近些年来,软饮料对茶叶行业的冲击正在日益加剧。 Remarks:杜甫曾有诗云:“落日平台上,春风啜茗时,石栏斜点笔,桐叶坐题诗……”个中风味,实有服茶丸所不能尽者。
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