Recently, an Assam tea estate sold India’s first commercially-produced matcha tea, marking a significant shift from conventional teas.
About Matcha Tea:
Matcha is a finely ground green tea powder made from specially processed, shade-grown tea leaves of Camellia sinensis.
Origin: It originated through cultural exchanges between China and Japan during the premodern period.
It developed from earlier powdered tea practices in China that were later introduced to Japan by Zen Buddhist monks.
Production process
It is made after shading tea leaves for three to four weeks before harvest.
Blocking 90% of sunlight from the leaves boosts their chlorophyll and amino acid levels, and gives them a distinct colour and flavour.
The young leaves are harvested and steamed, then dried and de-stemmed into a flaky leaf called tencha.
The tencha is slowly stone-ground into the fine powder we know as matcha.
The shade-growing process gives matcha its characteristic bright green colour and rich umami flavour.
Unlike regular green tea, where the leaves are steeped and discarded, matcha is whisked into water and consumed entirely, providing higher levels of antioxidants, amino acids, and natural caffeine.
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