Green Tea
WHAT IS GREEN TEA? Green tea hails from China where it’s been cultivated since the Han Dynasty (206-220), though it was used primarily for medicinal purposes at that time, it wasn’t until China’s early Tang Dynasty (600-900) that green tea started being consumed as a sipping tea. While many people assume that green tea is a variety all on its own, it is in fact, made from leaves of the very same plant as Black, Oolong, and English Breakfast teas, Camellia sinensis. Read more >
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Extreme Green Yerba Mate is made with ginseng, matcha, yerba, guarana and green tea to provide antioxidants and energy. This premium organic tea is packed in unbleached tea bags and the yerba mate is dried using a low heating process to protect the natural enzymes of yerba mate. This not only protects the integrity of the plant but enhances its natural flavour and keeps it from having a smokey ...
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This combination of yerba mate, Japanese sencha, matcha, American ginseng and echinacea provides a tea that's packed with antioxidants and flavour. This blend is excellent at supporting mental and physical fatigue and stress and increases the immune system. This premium blend is organic and uses unbleached tea bags for better quality. This blend is dried using a low heating process to prot...
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New Roots organic and non-GMO matcha is shade-grown and hand harvested. Unlike traditional green tea, matcha offers a vibrant green colour and creamy taste and texture. The matcha leaves are subtly steamed and then stone-ground into a fine powder. New Roots matcha has an exquisite and savoury taste. It can be prepared by adding 1/2-1 tsp to a cup of hot water or can be added to shakes, lattes, ...
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New Roots organic and non-GMO matcha is shade-grown and hand harvested. Unlike traditional green tea, matcha offers a vibrant green colour and creamy taste and texture. The matcha leaves are subtly steamed and then stone-ground into a fine powder. New Roots matcha has an exquisite and savoury taste. It can be prepared by adding 1/2-1 tsp to a cup of hot water or can be added to shakes, lattes, ...
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Sip on this roasted and full-bodied Organic Gunpowder Green Tea that’s packed with antioxidants to fight off free radicals, help prevent inflammation with a medium boost of caffeine. Within hours of being plucked, Numi Tea’s Organic Gunpowder Green Tea is gently rolled into small tight pearls on a wok, then custom crafted for Numi’s tea bags. This process preserves its smooth, full-bodied flavo...
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Fragrant and smooth, Numi’s Organic Jasmine Green tea offers a medium strength caffeine tea that’s sweet and balanced. They scent fragrant, smooth green tea leaves three times with night-blooming jasmine to make this delicate tea. In Jiangxi Province, China, rich soil and fluctuations in daily temperature yield a fragrant leaf. Jasmine flowers gently cover the tea until their scent is fully abs...
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THE ORIGINAL SD'S TEA (GREEN TEA) Naturally take care of constipation problems with a delicious tea. In China, herbs have been used for thousands of years. People of the Orient, India and Greece have used a variety of herbs for medicinal use. S D's Tea, is prepared according to a special Chinese formula, and it contains choice of herbs and leaves. The medicinal and non-medicinal herbs and spic...
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Stash Tea Asian Pear Harmony is the perfect blend of Japanese-style green tea with a crisp Asian pear flavour. Green tea is known to have less caffeine than a cup a coffee and contains naturally occurring L-theanine to give a boost of energy. Stash Tea sources only the best ingredients from around the world and makes every tea bag from sustainable, unbleached natural fiber and GMO-free cotton s...
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Stash Tea Asian Pear Harmony is the perfect blend of Japanese-style green tea with a crisp Asian pear flavour. Green tea is known to have less caffeine than a cup a coffee and contains naturally occurring L-theanine to give a boost of energy. Stash Tea sources only the best ingredients from around the world and makes every tea bag from sustainable, unbleached natural fiber and GMO-free cotton s...
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Chai Green Tea from Stash Tea is a highly unique tasting chai tea. Chai Tea is typically made using black tea but Stash Tea decided to try it with green tea instead! The bold flavours of cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, ginger root and sarsaparilla blended perfectly with the flavour of green tea leaves for a whole new Chai experience that you are sure to love. Stash Tea sources only the best ingredi...
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Stash Tea formulated a decaffeinated rendition of their popular Premium Green Tea. Flavoured with a blend of naturally decaffeinated green tea leaves and using a completely natural European process that removes 99.5% of the caffeine without taking away all the flavour, colour or aromas. Decaf Premium Green Tea is so delicious it can be enjoyed at any time of day. Stash Tea sources only the best...
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Stash Tea formulated a decaffeinated rendition of their popular Premium Green Tea. Flavoured with a blend of naturally decaffeinated green tea leaves and using a completely natural European process that removes 99.5% of the caffeine without taking away all the flavour, colour or aromas. Decaf Premium Green Tea is so delicious it can be enjoyed at any time of day. Stash Tea sources only the best...
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Ginger Peach Tea from Stash Tea is the perfect blend of spicy and sweet. With all the fruity freshness of a peach combined with the powerful, lingering zest of ginger, Ginger Peach Tea is the perfect combination of matcha and green tea to give you an extra boost of caffeine. Stash Tea sources only the best ingredients from around the world and makes every tea bag from sustainable, unbleached na...
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Ginger Peach Tea from Stash Tea is the perfect blend of spicy and sweet. With all the fruity freshness of a peach combined with the powerful, lingering zest of ginger, Ginger Peach Tea is the perfect combination of matcha and green tea to give you an extra boost of caffeine. Stash Tea sources only the best ingredients from around the world and makes every tea bag from sustainable, unbleached na...
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Jasmine Blossom Green Tea from Stash Tea is an exceptional blend of jasmine and green tea. Jasmine tea is one the world's most enjoyed flavoured teas. This unique combination allows you to enjoy the taste of green tea as well as the floral flavour and aroma from Jasmine. Green tea is known to have less caffeine than a cup a coffee and contains naturally occurring L-theanine to give a boost of e...
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Jasmine Blossom Green Tea from Stash Tea is an exceptional blend of jasmine and green tea. Jasmine tea is one the world's most enjoyed flavoured teas. This unique combination allows you to enjoy the taste of green tea as well as the floral flavour and aroma from Jasmine. Green tea is known to have less caffeine than a cup a coffee and contains naturally occurring L-theanine to give a boost of e...
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Moroccan Mint Green Tea from Stash Tea is a delicious blend of green tea, lemongrass and refreshing mint. A fragrant, refreshing, and aromatic blend, Moroccan Mint Green Tea can be enjoyed hot or iced or Moroccan style, sweetened with sugar. Stash Tea sources only the best ingredients from around the world and makes every tea bag from sustainable, unbleached natural fiber and GMO-free cotton st...
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Moroccan Mint Green Tea from Stash Tea is a delicious blend of green tea, lemongrass and refreshing mint. A fragrant, refreshing, and aromatic blend, Moroccan Mint Green Tea can be enjoyed hot or iced or Moroccan style, sweetened with sugar. Stash Tea sources only the best ingredients from around the world and makes every tea bag from sustainable, unbleached natural fiber and GMO-free cotton st...
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Pomegranate Raspberry Tea from Stash Tea is a quenching blend of green tea, pomegranate, raspberries and matcha. The vibrant pink colour, unique aroma and flavour, Pomegranate Raspberry Tea is soon to be a fan favourite. This divine blend is equally delightful hot or iced. Stash Tea sources only the best ingredients from around the world and makes every tea bag from sustainable, unbleached natu...
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Pomegranate Raspberry Tea from Stash Tea is a quenching blend of green tea, pomegranate, raspberries and matcha. The vibrant pink colour, unique aroma and flavour, Pomegranate Raspberry Tea is soon to be a fan favourite. This divine blend is equally delightful hot or iced. Stash Tea sources only the best ingredients from around the world and makes every tea bag from sustainable, unbleached natu...
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What is Green Tea?
What is Green Tea?Green tea hails from China where it’s been cultivated since the Han Dynasty (206-220), though it was used primarily for medicinal purposes at that time, it wasn’t until China’s early Tang Dynasty (600-900) that green tea started being consumed as a sipping tea. While many people assume that green tea is a variety all on its own, it is in fact, made from leaves of the very same plant as Black, Oolong, and English Breakfast teas, Camellia sinensis.
To make green tea, the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant are plucked, slightly withered, then immediately cooked to preserve the full nutritional content and prevent oxidization. Unlike Chinese green teas, Japanese teas are not withered and the leaves are steamed to preserve the colour, flavour, and nutrients.
Today, there is a wide variety of different green tea that is grown and harvested in many different regions of China and Japan, each with its own distinct flavour profile as a result of things like the growing method, timing of the leaves harvest, and processing method. Some of the most common green tea varieties include:
- Sencha – By far the most commonly known and consumed of green teas. Processed using common processing methods (steaming and rolling leaves)
- Fukamushi Sencha – Green tea that has been steamed approximately twice as long as regular Sencha – has a stronger taste and darker green colour
- Gyokuro – Made with tea leaves from a covered culture that suppresses catechins, resulting in a tea that is less astringent and has a richer flavour
- Kabusesha – From tea leaves shielded from sunlight one week prior to harvesting, giving the tea a darker green colour, full-bodied flavour, and lower astringency
- Tencha – Primarily used to make Matcha. Similar to Gyokuro, grown according to the covered culture method
- Genmaicha – Features soaked & steamed, then roasted & popped brown rice mixed with Sencha or another green tea variety in a 50:50 ratio
- Hojicha – Made by roasting Sencha or other types of green tea, which gives it a distinct roasted aroma
- Shincha – Or "new tea" – made the first picking of the season. Refreshing and invigorating, low catechin and caffeine content, and less bitter and astringent
- Matcha – Tencha which has been stone ground.
Green Tea - taste, texture, aroma
Given the wide variety of green teas, it's important to understand that the flavour of individual green teas will depend on terroir – i.e. the unique set of environmental and climate conditions in which it was grown. Generally speaking, a high-quality green tea, when brewed appropriately, delivers a fresh, slightly astringent, vegetal flavour with bright grassy after notes. Of course, depending on the variety of tea, it can also be sweeter or more bitter, nutty, grassy, smoky, or can have a bit of a seaweed flavour.
Brewing a Perfect Cup of Green Tea
Making the perfect cup of green tea is no easy feat, and is highly dependent on the temperature of the water you use. An optimal water temperature for brewing green tea is between 158 °F and 176 °F – this will allow optimal extraction of key compounds from catechins and tannins to amino acids and volatiles. But be sure not to boil the water as this will ruin the flavour entirely. You also want to make sure not to over-brew the tea, as this will draw out too much bitterness. An optimal brew time is usually 1 to 2 minutes.
Green tea is also delicious cold-brewed since this method extracts different amounts of the leaves' compounds, providing far less bitter and astringent compounds, and caffeine are extracted, which yields a pleasant refreshing flavour. To make cold brew green tea, add 1-2 spoonfuls of tea leaves to a large glass pitcher, add lukewarm or cold water, cover with a lid, and put in a fridge for at least 3-5 hours. Enjoy!
Active Compounds in Green Tea
Green tea is a nutrient powerhouse and has a much higher concentration of nutrients, most notably, chlorophyll, polyphenols, and antioxidants than other tea types. In fact, roughly 30% of green tea's dry weight is made up of antioxidants. The active components in green tea include:
- Caffeine – This is what is in large part responsible for green tea’s bitterness component. Caffeine is well-known to increase mental alertness and enhance memory.
- EGCG – Epigallocatechin gallate is a polyphenol that acts as an antioxidant, so offers protection against free radicals. Additionally, EGCG can support heart health and healthy blood sugar balance. EGCH contributes to the bitter quality of green tea. Other polyphenols in green tea include epicatechin gallate and epicatechin.
- Kaempferol, Quercetin, and Myricetin – Three unique flavonoids increase the body's antioxidant defence. There is also clinical evidence that they support a healthy inflammatory response and optimal immune function.
- Saponins – Saponins are natural foaming agents (responsible for the frothing we see in certain teas). Green tea leaves contain around 0.1% saponins, which imparts the tea with a strong bitterness and astringency. Saponins have many functions in the body, with a very important one being supporting healthy cholesterol levels.
- Theanine – This is an amino acid found in tea leaves, and is responsible for providing the full-bodied flavour profile of green tea. Theanine impacts nerve impulses in the brain and the release of neurotransmitters. It has a natural calming effect on the body and mind without causing drowsiness.
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