Deciphering superior quality of Pu-erh tea from thousands of years' old trees based on the chemical profile.

Food Chemistry
Yahui GeZhi-Hong Jiang

Abstract

Pu-erh teas from thousands of years' old trees (TPT) equip with both superior flavors and powerful antioxidative capacities. With UHPLC-Q-TOF-MS approach, TPTs' chemical profiles were characterized by comparing with Pu-erh teas from ecological trees (EPT). TPTs are discovered to possess higher contents of amino acids, fatty acids, phenolic acids, nucleosides and nucleobases but lower contents of flavonoids and caffeine congeners based on 117 discriminative constituents from 305 identified ones. Particularly, a series of caffeic acid congeners including ten new hydroxycinnamic acid depsides with higher contents in TPTs are discovered, and caffeic acid with a fold change of 638 is the foremost discriminative component. Furthermore, distinguishing constituent proportion including caffeic acid congeners in TPTs are found to take great responsibilities for their more powerful antioxidative abilities and superior flavors especially more aroma and pleasant bitterness. This research provides information for deciphering formation of TPTs' superior qualities based on chemical profile.

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