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Matcha tea has come into the mainstream in recent years, and it is touted for its health benefits. The tea leaves are harvested and then ground down into a bright green powder. They can be dissolved and whisked into hot water or cold milk. Unlike regular tea leaves that are brewed, matcha powder retains more of its nutritional value — matcha has 137 times more antioxidants than traditional brewed green teas. So recently I was browsing around and saw this Matcha Green Tea from PureChimp (interesting name, I thought…) Anyway, I went ahead and bought it as it was fairly cheap relative to other ceremonial grade teas.
Matcha naturally contains caffeine, so the vast majority of matcha powders are caffeinated. Some brands sell decaf matcha, but it's uncommon. A serving of matcha contains 40 to 70 milligrams of caffeine on average. Despite how detailed these processes seem, good matcha can be made by simple, even crude, means. Puyane told us: "I get a lot of questions like, 'How do I make matcha at home?' 'Do I need special tools—a bowl, a whisk?' When it comes down to it, you can make matcha in a protein shaker if you wanted to." The region that a matcha powder comes from is a baseline way to discern its quality, especially for new buyers. The best-case scenario is a single-varietal tea (meaning it comes from only one area) sourced in a primary matcha region of Japan: Uji, Kagoshima, Shizuoka, and more. Many products, particularly inexpensive ones, will be sourced outside of Japan—a sign of lower-quality matcha.I also haven’t found it to make me queasy when I drink it on an empty stomach as can happen occasionally with sencha green tea. The Matcha Konomi powder is organic, stone-ground, and harvested from the heralded Uji region of Japan. Michelle Puyane, co-founder of Chalait says Uji match "tends to have more depth to the flavor; it can be very savory. The other two popular regions are Kagoshima, which might be grassier and have a lighter flavor, and Shizuoka, which is milder, not leaning one way or the other." But maybe you’re new to the world of green tea and you’re saying to yourself: “matcha, sencha? I’ve no idea what you’re talking about, I just drink green tea…”
Matcha is a fine, rich powder, that is full of antioxidants. The deep green color is from its high chlorophyll content. A little bit about PureChimp Matcha Green Tea Product And The Brand Ethics PureChimp matcha green tea has a very pleasant and savory taste while being mildly sweet and gentle on the taste buds.Then you can top it up with hot water (make sure it's not boiling!) Or you can use hot milk which makes an amazing latte! I use hazelnut milk which I really like as the nuttiness of the milk complements the earthy tea really well. Color is a bright green and the taste (or smell as probably few actually compared taste with grass?) is grassy as expected. I did get a few cups with a very slight pinch of bitterness. Perhaps it's from being in a transparent container that's had to go to the UK first. However, pricing for the jar individually is very competitive. I followed the instructions on the jar that said to put in about half a teaspoon of matcha into a little cold water and stir to mix it in. Once that’s done, you can pour in the water from the kettle to fill the cup and continue to mix it. I get the feeling whoever is in customer service shouldn't be there. Yes a mistake was made but blaming the customer for it in a rather curt fashion and then only responding to direct requests, trying to push the work onto them at any given chance, I hope they get a professional in to do this job instead. The attitude wasn't great and performance only a notch above mediocre. If you have the chance to see a matcha's color, even looking up pictures online, you can get a better sense of its taste and quality. Brighter usually means better. Striking green hues indicate more flavor and less bitterness, while duller colors or yellowish tints are signs that matcha is either lower quality or better used for cooking purposes.
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