Tea Knowledge - Five Things You Need to Know About Matcha
1. Matcha Cultivation
Although matcha was introduced to Japan in the 12th century by our great China, it was Japan that actually improved and invented the cover planting, and the cover planting of matcha is only four hundred years old.
2. New Matcha Season
As we all know, March, April and May is the spring tea season, and the new tea season in May in Japan mainly refers to sencha, while the new tea season for matcha is in October, and the processed grind tea (the original matcha leaves) picked in May/June has to go through half a year's maturing before it is processed and milled for distribution to the market.
3. Matcha Food Applications
In Japan, the history of matcha used in food is actually very short, and it was only because Haagen-Dazs developed matcha-flavoured ice cream in the 1990s that matcha confectionery started to be recognised by the general public and demand for it arose.
4. Matcha and Tamari
Yakult was actually invented in 1835, 600 years after matcha was introduced to Japan, so Yakult is really a youngster in front of matcha. And the invention of Yuru is also really accidental, because a processing of tea milling time mistakes, kneading the tea leaves, crooked accidentally good, and now become a high-level representative of the Japanese tea.
5. Blended Matcha Tea
Matcha tea in fact, in order to ensure product quality control, is going to be blended, blending and coffee beans is not quite the same, there are several dimensions, old tea and new tea blending, good tea with the second tea blending, varieties and varieties of blending.

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