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49erFaithful
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 Posted: Oct 10, 2008 2:33 pm Post subject: Matcha questions! |
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Hello everyone, first post here. I'm new to matcha and just had a few questions regarding it. Can someone please help me?
1. Can (and should) it be refrigerated? I've heard conflicting opinions.
2. I have read that 1 cup of matcha is equal to 10-20 cups of regular green tea, in terms of nutritional value. Is this true? If for nothing more than the health benefits, can I ditch drinking my 5 cups of green tea and instead opt for just a single cup of matcha per day?
3. I recently bought my first matcha: DoMatcha Second Harvest, and I like it, but I haven't bought anything else to compare it to so I dont know if that brand is considered good or bad. After I bought it, I found out about this site and from some of the things I've read out there on the internet, this site has a pretty good reputation. What would you recommend for me to buy off of this site?
Thank you very much for reading!
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Kevangogh
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| Posted: Oct 10, 2008 3:10 pm Post subject: Re: Matcha questions! |
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| 49erFaithful wrote: | Hello everyone, first post here. I'm new to matcha and just had a few questions regarding it. Can someone please help me?
1. Can (and should) it be refrigerated? I've heard conflicting opinions.
2. I have read that 1 cup of matcha is equal to 10-20 cups of regular green tea, in terms of nutritional value. Is this true? If for nothing more than the health benefits, can I ditch drinking my 5 cups of green tea and instead opt for just a single cup of matcha per day?
3. I recently bought my first matcha: DoMatcha Second Harvest, and I like it, but I haven't bought anything else to compare it to so I dont know if that brand is considered good or bad. After I bought it, I found out about this site and from some of the things I've read out there on the internet, this site has a pretty good reputation. What would you recommend for me to buy off of this site?
Thank you very much for reading!
Go Niners. |
Regarding question #1, if it's completely sealed, then you can refrigerate it but you are better to let it warm up slowly (hours) after pulling it out of the refrigerator, otherwise it will clump up easily.
Regarding question #2 - Not true at all. Matcha and regular loose leaf sencha have different levels of ECGC, polyphenols, amino acids, etc, due to how they are grown. Sencha actually has higher levels of polyphenols, matcha has higher levels of theanine. Next, people "assume" that because matcha is a powder that it's more concentrated but it's not exactly clear how much of this the human body can consume. Leaves, wood, ect, are mostly cellulose which is not digestible in the human body.
Regarding question #3 - When it comes to matcha, anything past the 1st harvest is unworthy and can barely be called matcha. They mostly use that for "food grade" matcha. Buy a can of our lowest quality (but not low quality) Uji Matcha "Kiri no Mori" and compare the color of it side-by-side to that DoMatcha for a new perspective. |
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Oni
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| Posted: Oct 10, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| For tea to absorb better try consuming tea sweets before or during or after your tea session, glucose enhances the absorbtion, and please try usucha grade matcha, not food grade, and maybe later you can move on towards koicha. |
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49erFaithful
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| Posted: Oct 11, 2008 3:39 am Post subject: |
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Thank you both for the quick replies! I'll give the kiri no mori a try.
What do you folks drink on a daily basis? I'm assuming most people do not buy the most expensive matcha as their "daily matcha."
Is there a tea on this site--whether it is matcha or sencha or another green tea--that people enjoy 5 cups a day with.
What I'm getting at is this------matcha is a tea I would like to have every couple of days, simply because of the price. But I would still like another tea that I can drink all day long, all week long.
Sorry for the noobish questions, I appreciate all the help! |
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okimasa
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Joined: 15 Mar 2008
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Location: Elora, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Oct 11, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: |
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| 49erFaithful wrote: | Thank you both for the quick replies! I'll give the kiri no mori a try.
What do you folks drink on a daily basis? I'm assuming most people do not buy the most expensive matcha as their "daily matcha."
Is there a tea on this site--whether it is matcha or sencha or another green tea--that people enjoy 5 cups a day with.
What I'm getting at is this------matcha is a tea I would like to have every couple of days, simply because of the price. But I would still like another tea that I can drink all day long, all week long.
Sorry for the noobish questions, I appreciate all the help! |
I always drink at least one bowl of Matcha a day. But I also drink a lot of Sencha too.
As someone like Chip would tell you, you could get 5 infusions with some kinds of tea. So if you make like 3 or 4 cups per infusion, that's like 15 - 20 cups from the same leaves! I enjoy about 12 cups of Kagoshima Sencha Yutaka Midori a day.
I think you'd like Sencha. |
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Oni
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| How much does your cup hold. I drink sencha from 100cc cup filled to about 80 cc, and gyokuro from a 30cc cup, if I am alone I drink 15 cups of gyokuro with one session, total 500 cc, and sencha 600cc within an hour or more, just keep the tea flowing. |
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okimasa
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Location: Elora, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Oct 11, 2008 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Oni wrote: | | How much does your cup hold. I drink sencha from 100cc cup filled to about 80 cc, and gyokuro from a 30cc cup, if I am alone I drink 15 cups of gyokuro with one session, total 500 cc, and sencha 600cc within an hour or more, just keep the tea flowing. |
Mine? They hold about 120cc and I fill them to about 100-110cc. I don't know why, but I usually brew 4 cups at a time, so that's like 400cc brewed at once. (I'm considering getting a faircup!) |
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