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"There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea"
Bernard-Paul Heroux
Like all green tea, matcha naturally contains caffeine, but unlike coffee, the tea caffiene acts in harmony with theophylline and L-theaniine to give our bodies a gentle and sustained energy boost lasting 3 – 6 hours while helping you remain calm and focused. Just the thing if you’re a Buddist monk about to embark on a lengthy period of mediation.
A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition established that green tea "promoted fat oxidation" and "‘increased energy expenditure’ – in other words, it promotes the metabolism and burning of fat which can lead to weight loss.
It states that knocking back green tea on a regular basis boosts the metabolism by as much as 35-40%.
Green tea has long been the beverage of choice for the health conscious amongst us, in part because of the high levels of antioxidants, minerals, vitamins, and nutrients. Matcha is grown under shade concentrates the goodness of green tea even further.
And then there’s the way matcha is drunk – as a fine powder infused in liquid. When you drink regular green tea, you throw the leaves away inside a teabag once you've brewed it, so it's a bit like boiling spinach, throwing away the spinach and drinking the water. This gives you some of the nutrients, of course, but you're throwing away a lot of the goodness. When you drink matcha, you ingest the whole leaf so you consume every last bit of green tea goodness.
A study in the Journal of Chromatography shows found that there were 137 x more antioxidants in a matcha infusion compared to a standard green tea infused from a tea bag. It also reported that matcha contains 70 x the antioxidant power of orange juice and 9 x the beta carotene level of spinach.
A study by the British Medical Journal found "that green tea may act preventively against cardiovascular disease" and that high consumption of green tea (10+ cups) can help lower bad cholesterol.
just 1g of teapigs organic matcha is the equivalent of drinking 10-15 cups green tea.
