Originally Posted by
Terex
Oh, and matcha is just powdered green tea..... Plus, you're probaly ingesting a lot of the powdered leaf that you don't ingest when brewing whole leaves. .
If you buy the cheap stuff from china its just powdered green tea. If you buy the real stuff from japan it has a very specific harvesting method that makes it a lot different from plain green tea. They cover the plants for a month prior to harvest,, blocking 90% of the light. That makes the leaves pump out chlorophyll by the bucketload. Then only the end two leaves are harvested, dried, veins removed, and stone ground so no heat is introduced. Its just powdered green tea the same as grass fed organic fillet mignon is just non ground safeway hamburger
And yes you ingest all of it, thats the point. You don't steep it like regular tea, you dissolve it so you get 100% of it.