Lately, after the green tea trend that is now almost in every home, new varieties of tea from China have come forward, often difficult to find in supermarkets, but which are making a lot of talk about themselves because of their incredible benefits. Even slimming. After talking about Oolong tea and Matcha tea (by clicking on the links of the names you will read the reviews), let’s see today to discover a particular type of tea, Puer tea or Pu Ehr, Pu-Ehr or Pu ‘er tea .
First let’s see what it looks like: it is a post-fermented tea from the Yunnan province, that is, it is a tea that undergoes a particular processing of the leaves and subsequent fermentation that gives it a darker color than other teas, until it becomes a black tea (red according to the Chinese). Depending on how seasoned or fine the leaves are, the tea will be more or less good and effective. So it is a tea that we can buy according to various degrees of freshness and seasoning.
When fresh, Puer tea is a white or green tea. From aged, it becomes a black tea, and the fermentation process enriches it with a particularly strong flavor, which not everyone likes. 
This is its peculiarity.
But is it effective at what? Like oolong tea and green tea varieties, Puer tea has also been attributed specific qualities.In summary: it is rich in antioxidants, therefore it fights free radicals and strengthens the immune system and would even have anticancer properties as they say for all foods with antioxidant properties.

According to Chinese medicine, Puer or Pu Ehr tea is a “cleansing” tea, a tea that aids digestion and natural detoxification, but many claim that this tea has “fat burning” properties. How much truth is there in this?
The problem with the word fat burner is that it is an inappropriate term: it makes everyone think that the fat burning substance can attack adipocytes and destroy them , thus eating away the flab. In fact, the term fat burner often refers to the properties a food has to lower blood triglycerides and cholesterol.
Which in fact Puer tea does, at least according to a study on a sample of mice, which was followed by others, always on guinea pigs: according to this study, the most slimming tea in mice was Oolong tea, followed by tea. by Puer. The most useful tea for lowering cholesterol and triglycerides was Puer tea.
However, it is necessary to know that specific matured varieties of both teas were used for the study : both Oolong and Puer tea had had “ a full degree of fermentation” and a long maturation. Even in subsequent studies, if you want to read them all, Puer is the one with a high degree of seasoning and fermented ( T he quality and taste of pu-erh tea is believed to depend on the length of  the aging period, and the longer the process , the better  the quality and tast e ) 

Therefore the teas we examined were of the aged type. The variant of Puer tea under study would be exclusively the one called shu-puer or shu -cha, the aged one of the “pressed raw” type. The price for such a tea? Tall.

Where the hell to find it?