Tagged: nerolidol

The Stem Concentrates Floral Compounds the Leaf Does Not

A 2025 tissue-level study found oolong's stem holds more of the compounds behind its floral scent than the leaf beside it. A 2022 study found adding stem to the blend lowers one of those same compounds in the finished tea. Neither team was answering the other's question, and nobody has reconciled the two.

In One Taiwanese Tea, the Bite Mark Is the Flavor

Oriental Beauty oolong is made only from tea leaves a small leafhopper has already bitten. The plant's response to that bite is now mapped to a single gene switch, and it is not the same chemistry a shaken, unbitten leaf ever produces.

Oolong Aroma

More than 300 volatiles have been identified in oolong, and most of them were not in the fresh leaf. What the stress route, the locked glycoside pool, and the roast each contribute, and why the received account of the second one is contradicted by direct measurement.