While many times green tea is prepared to be consumed while hot, it can also be enjoyed as a cold beverage. There are some benefits to cold brewing your tea, ranging from less caffeine to easier to...

Green tea has various health benefits. In particular, catechins are known to have various health functions. One of them is antibacterial / sterilizing and antiviral action. The influenza virus gets...

As you can imagine, the taste of green tea will be different based on when it is harvested and other factors such as how much sunlight it has been exposed to. In Japan, there are 3 harvests of gree...

The tea leaf, just like most of plant leaves, is made of blade and stem.   Both the blade and stem are processed to make refined tea, but through the refining process, they are usually separated. T...

Bancha is another type of green tea found in Japan. Bancha is harvested from the same plant as sencha, but it is harvested between summer and autumn, whereas sencha is harvested between spring (the...

Sencha is a kind of Japanese green tea that is made by putting processed whole tea leaves in hot water. It has a great balance of sweetness, bitterness, richness, astringency, and smell.   The Pro...