饮料行业的有关专家预测,未来5年,全球健康饮料将以高于普通饮料1倍以上的速度增长。具有强身和保健功能的保健茶产品更是受到市场欢迎,其前景越来越好。有关专家认为,继茶饮料市场迅速扩大之后,保健茶饮料有望成为21世纪饮料世界的主流。中国是中医药的故乡,用中草药养生及治病已有数千年历史,至今相沿不衰。在中国各种医书中,就曾记录了1100多种有治疗作用的“茶”类饮品,而近一二十年有案可查的各类药茶就有350种之多。近年来,饮料业专家和中医药界专家携手,以中国传统中 Experts in the beverage industry predict that in the next five years, global healthy beverages will grow at a rate that is more than one times higher than that of ordinary beverages. Health tea products with health and health functions are welcomed by the market and their prospects are getting better and better. Experts believe that after the rapid expansion of the tea beverage market, health tea beverages are expected to become the mainstream of the beverage world in the 21st century. China is the hometown of traditional Chinese medicine. It has been used for thousands of years to maintain health and treat diseases with Chinese herbs. Among the various medical books in China, more than 1,100 kinds of therapeutic “tea” drinks have been recorded, and there are as many as 350 types of medicinal teas that have been documented in the past one or two decades. In recent years, beverage industry experts and experts in the field of traditional Chinese medicine have joined hands in the traditional Chinese