What is in Matcha Green Tea?

Properties Matcha Green Tea

What is in matcha green tea? Like all other varieties of tea in the world, Matcha tea also has different properties that guarantee its quality.

Matcha tea quality depends on the quality of the primary product, ie Tencha tea. Depending on the growing region, the situation and altitude (plains, mountainous region, hilly), specialization of tea growers and the type of the tea plant, different categories of quality are obtained Tencha tea. Following the different qualities of leaves

Tencha, which are ground in stone mills, different categories of Matcha are obtained. There are three main criteria to differentiate quality: aroma, appearance and content.

Appearance

Matcha tea is characterized by its intense green jade. The green tea powder may have a yellowish brown color. These differences are due to the quality of the raw material: to prepare the Matcha tea leaves only Tencha used. This tea has a deep dark green color, because the plants are grown in the shade long before harvest. The tea is ground Tencha exclusively granite stone mills and becomes an ultra fine powder Matcha. The particle size is 5-17 micrometers, which is so fine that the granules can not be seen or touched or mouth.

Instead, the green tea powder is made from common tea varieties that are not covered during their growth or only for a short time. In this case, a current sheet of the tea plant is ground, including the veins and stems, and no mills for grinding stone, but all kinds of machines are used. Therefore, a degree similar to Matcha tea powder, which is ground in stone mills fineness, is not achieved. The faux tea powder is usually thicker and gray, which can be verified by touch or by testing.

Content

Matcha tea contains amino acids, including L-Theanine, which occurs due to prolonged growth in the shade. Amino acids have a calming effect and give a soothing tone to the stimulating nature of the protein.

The effect of green tea powders mimicking Matcha, however, hardly be seen, and these imitations not possess the same as the original Matcha healthy ingredients.

Aroma

Matcha tea is sweet, creamy, soft and just slightly bitter taste. The sweet taste is due to the high concentration of amino acids, especially L-Theanine and vegetable fibers.

Unlike quality with respect to cheap imitations of Matcha it is noticeable in the green powder contains almost no imitations amino acids, so it has a very bitter taste.