Is there any difference between japanese greent tea and regular green tea?!
Is there any difference between japanese greent tea and regular green tea?
Does anyone know if there is a difference between those 2 green tea's, if there is, can you please tell me!
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one is probably a better quality? I think it's part of the product your buying and part of how you steep it.
Well I am Japanese so honestly there is a difference if you buy it or make it.
Green tea- Made of just ordinary green tea roots and natural nutriets
Japanese green tea- Green tea roots,vitamin B12, and also ginseng.
If you make it honestly you can do whatever.
if by regular green tea, you mean green tea from china, then I would say there's a little difference. Although both taste great, I personally find Japanese green tea to be a bit smoother. I just had some in a japanese restaurant, and it was so good, I asked what kind it was. The server brought me a tea bag of Sen Cha green tea, which I then made at home and compared with my Celestial Seasonings green tea (china)
Both tasted good but the Japanese one tasted a bit smoother. The Celestial Seasonings one tasted more robust...these are just my opinions. As far as health benefit wise, I highly doubt there's any significant difference.
japanese green tea are are a lot of different types like sencha, genmaicha, etc...regular green tea can mean any green tea. green tea is a category of tea..
so it depends.. chinese green tea and japanese tea are different in taste...chinese one ussually are chestnutty flavor or sweet and refreshing...while i find japanese tea tends to be salty or rather known as sweet after taste that is interprete as salty by our brains..
browse teacuppa.com green tea section you see varieties of green tea.
Japanese green tea is processed differently than green tea from China. Both countries use the leaves plucked from the camellia sinensis plant, also known as the tea tree.
The Chinese method of processing follows:
The leaves are sometimes, but not always withered after plucking. This will reduce some of the moisture content in the leaves. If tea is withered (by being spread out on a surface) it will be for a very short time.
Then, in order to neutralize the enzymes thus preventing oxidation, the leaves are pan fried.
Next the leaves are rolled up in various ways and tightness. After that, a final drying takes place. Since no oxidation took place, the tea has more of a green appearance.
Japanese method:
Instead of pan frying, which is the Chinese method, the leaves are steamed. This will both stop the oxidation process and reduce water content of the leaves. Tea leaves are steamed for about 60 seconds.
Next the goal is to dry and shape the leaves which in past years was done by hand.
Machine manufacturing was introduced and began replacing handmade tea. Machines took over the processes of primary drying, tea rolling, secondary drying, final rolling, and steaming.
See: http://www.your-cup-of-tea.com for more information on tea.