Do you know about Yuza-tea? If it’s Africa, it’s coffee, if it’s Germany, it’s beer, and if it’s France, it’s wine, what’s Korea? There are many different kinds of drinks around the world, but if it’s Korea, it’s Yuza-tea, right? It is a tea made by diluting Yuza syrup, which is made by marinating citron in sugar or honey, and has been eaten in Korea for hundreds of years.
When making Yuza-tea, wash the Yuza first, cut it thinly, boil it in boiling water, taste it with additives such as sugar or honey, and make it into tea. In some areas, additives such as ginger, tangerine skin, and mugwort are used.
Yuza-tea is rich in natural vitamin C and antioxidants, so it has a good effect on strengthening immunity and recovering from fatigue. It also helps relieve stress by causing a refreshing feeling due to the sour taste and scent of citron.
Because of its unique sour taste, it is said that it is drunk as a mouthwash after meals or when you catch a cold because it is rich in vitamin C. In particular, giving citron syrup or making citron tea to lovers with a cold includes classical expressions of affection. However, there is a theory that vitamin C is destroyed by heat, so it is better to drink it in lukewarm water than too hot water. However, there is also a point to be careful that the sugar content is enormous because the food itself is made of sugar.
In hot summer, they drink in warm water while turning on cool air conditioning, or in cold winter, they drink in cool water while turning on warm heating. When you drink coolly, you need to put more syrup than when you drink warm, that is, it tastes better when you burn it sweeter. Sweetness is less likely to be felt when it’s cold.
Since citron syrup itself is similar to marmalade, it doesn’t matter if you eat it as a substitute for jam, and it tastes good. (During market jam/marmalade, gelatin (agar) and pectin may be added to make it more sticky to prevent it from flowing down, so the manufacturing method may be a little different, but the degree of boiling is different, and the methods and ingredients are the same.) In fact, these days, the instruction manual says, “You can put it on bread.” However, do not apply too much. The viscosity is low and pectin is not added, so if you apply a lot, it will flow out of the bread gap.
And if you mix citron syrup with eggs and milk and freeze it, it becomes a pretty good ice cream. The sweet and sour taste is quite excellent, but the negative factor is that it has a bitter taste.
There is also citron slush as a good recipe to eat in summer. If you add 1 cup of ice to a blender, 2 spoons of citron syrup, and half a cup of cider (change it to carbonated water if you want to reduce the sweet taste), it is a refreshing and refreshing slush.
Yuja cheong, which has the name Yuja tea, is pickled in sugar (in some cases, honey is used), but it is less preserved because it is less boiled than jam, so it low sugar content. It can go bad if left at room temperature after opening, and what you eat can go bad if left in the refrigerator for too long. If you have received a large amount and you can’t eat it soon, it is recommended to boil it and divide it into a sterilized bottle (=bottled) and open it in a cool and shady place and drink it one by one.
Recently, with the increasing popularity of Korean culture, Yuza-tea is also becoming one of the popular tea drinks overseas. Especially in some regions such as Japan, China, the United States, and Europe, more and more people import and consume Korean Yuza tea
In China, with the spread of the Korean Wave and the increasing demand for healthy fruit drinks, more and more people are looking for Korean Yuza tea, and it can be easily found in local large discount stores and online shopping malls. On May 17, 2020, China’s representative Wang Hong promoted Yuza tea through a live mobile broadcast, and within a minute and 20 seconds of the broadcast, all 52,173 bottles of Korean Yuza tea were sold out, generating 600 million won in sales.
There are also many favorable reviews of Korean Yuza tea in Japan, and they are selling well in Japan.
This year (February 01, 2023) Japan’s イナヒ育で News has listed Korean Yuza tea, and it is recommended to the people of Japan to enjoy Yuza tea on a cold day.
Drinking Korean Yuza tea, which is well-received around the world, is one of the choices in daily life, and it is not a bad idea to use Yuza tea when asking a friend.
Those of you who live in Korea, if you want to taste Korea’s unique sweet and sour taste, let’s go straight to Yuza tea!
