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You know those big Venti-sized matcha lattes with whipped cream from Starbucks? They’ve got a lot going on: 43 grams of sugar, ...

Though most varieties of Japanese green tea are made from the same tea plant (Camellia sinensis), each holds its own distinctiv...

If you’re looking for something different than your usual tea that yields a mild grassy note, the Hojicha roasted green tea is ...

If you’re new to matcha, you might think that a chasen (or also known as bamboo whisk) is needed to make matcha tea. Well, that...

While there are several factors that can affect the taste of your matcha tea, the condition of your matcha bamboo whisk or chas...

Kagoshima was historically the source of cheap “filler” teas that big, traditional tea houses in Uji would use to blend and bal...

The answer may not surprise you, but Japanese people actually consume matcha in all forms. The traditional tea ceremony remains...

More than 70% of all tea plants grown in Japan are genetically identical. This is because they were propagated from cuttings ra...

In America and Europe, organic foods are typically perceived to be of higher quality. Based on the volume of enquiries we recei...

In the first week of May each year, there is a palpable energy in the tea growing regions of Japan. It is time for the annual f...