CHAI TEA LATTE: WHAT IT IS, PROPERTIES, HOW TO PREPARE IT

In the winter period, made up of cold, short days marked by frenetic rhythms between work or study commitments, what better idea than to carve out a moment of relaxation and indulge in a cuddle, something that warms the body from within, without missing a good new and delicate taste ?

Whether it’s for breakfast, mid-morning or in the afternoon, or even in the evening, a good idea could just be to prepare a good Chai Tea Latte , an excellent hot drink that comes from Asia.

Chai Tea Latte is a drink of oriental origin still not very well known in Italy, with varied aromas and numerous properties: let’s find out what it is!

What is Chai Tea Latte?

Chai Tea Latte is a hot drink that comes from the East (precisely from India) based on milk and black tea , which can be seasoned and enriched as we like with spices and aromas , which intensify its flavor by increasing its healthy properties and beneficial effects on the body. It is characterized by a very delicate flavour , based on black tea and milk, despite the presence of aromatic spices with a strong flavour. Thanks to the presence of milk, their strong taste is in fact diluted, while maintaining their excellent and well-known health properties.

The Chai Tea Latte has come to have notoriety and spread also in the rest of the world, also conquering our palates with its slightly spicy but not intrusive notes for the taste, in recent times, but it is never too late to insert a good and healthy food habit in daily routine. Even better is when this habit tastes as inviting as that of Chai Tea Latte.

What are the properties and what are the benefits of Chai Tea Latte?

Generally, Chai Tea Latte contains ginger, cardamom and cinnamon : all spices with a strong taste, sometimes spicy, which go in perfect combination with black tea, all sweetened by the softer taste of milk.

The beneficial properties for health reside precisely in this combination rich in antioxidant spices , which act on aging, inflammation, headaches and other ailments. Chai Tea Latte is therefore an excellent remedy to relieve these ailments, like any spice-based drink.

Looking carefully at the aromas present in Chai Tea Latte, in fact, ginger is famous for its anti-inflammatory properties, it counteracts headaches and nausea, helps the intestinal bacterial flora and the entire digestive process, with important positive effects also on mood .

Second spice present in Chai Tea Latte: cardamom , which instead represents an excellent ally to fight the seasonal evils that depopulate in this cold period, such as colds and flu.

Finally, cinnamon has, like the two previous spices, important anti-inflammatory characteristics, moreover, from a traditional point of view, it is known above all as an aphrodisiac spice (together with chilli pepper), capable of also alleviating stomach aches and menstrual pains, its use is therefore recommended to people suffering from these disorders.

Moving on to black tea , the basis of Chai Tea Latte, the antioxidant and purifying properties of tea are now established, which act and improve the functionality of the kidneys and facilitate digestion.

The innumerable beneficial effects of this oriental drink, the Chai Tea Latte, therefore can only make it even more captivating, given all the positive effects on our body, in addition to the particular flavour, which despite the presence of these three aromatic spices is not excessive or unpleasant.

Chai Tea Latte in capsules

Chai Tea Latte can be prepared at home , just get all the loose ingredients in the right doses, but nowadays it is also possible to prepare it more comfortably with an excellent final yield with the coffee machine, thanks to the DolceVita line of capsules .

The DolceVita capsules of Chai Tea Latte compatible with Dolce Gusto® allow you to quickly and easily prepare an aromatic drink such as sugar-free Chai Tea Latte, which will give you an excellent boost to start the day or recharge with a spiced cuddle during the day , representing a healthy and tasty alternative to classic tea and coffee.