by Jenny Hones, adapted by Obubu staff. Buy a small tea can for storing your matcha Part of enjoying tea culture is the anticipation of opening a new packet of tea. With the opening of the seal, the delightful aroma is a delightful preface to the cup of tea you are about to enjoy. As [...]
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We experimented with Obubu’s Kitchen Grade Matcha powders today to determine the difference between the three grades and the best method to make matcha or green tea lattes. Matcha is of course a kind of Japanese green tea, shaded for 3-4 weeks before harvest to reduce the amount of catechin (an antioxidant that produces a [...]
Continue Reading →If you are fairly knowledge about Japanese sencha tea, you may have heard the term “Yabukita”. Yabukita is a cultivated variety of camellia sinensis (tea plant) used to produce Japanese sencha. Almost 85% of the sencha produced in Japan is with this particular variety because it is said to have the best balance between hardiness [...]
Continue Reading →Does your Matcha powder contain sugar or any other ingredients other than tea leaves? Our matcha is 100% tea leaves. Absolutely nothing added. Matcha is made with tencha leaves, shaded for 4 weeks and grown in the spring from either Gokou plants or Uji Hikari plants (matcha-specific cultivars). Tencha, in addition for being shaded longer [...]
Continue Reading →The differences between sencha types can be divided into several categories: A) Harvest season (Spring, Summer, Autumn) Spring teas are the most expensive (Kabuse Sencha, Sencha of the Spring Sun, Sencha of the Wind, Sencha of the Earth). This is the season that the tea plant has its natural burst of growth drawing up nutrients [...]
Continue Reading →Obubu recommends a 5 gram or about 1 tablespoon worth of tea leaves each time you steep the tea leaves. Using a standard boiling water steeping technique, this produce about 1 teacup (6 oz. or 180 ml) worth of tea, but remember, unlike other types of tea, you steep green tea for very short periods [...]
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Test Results The following table lists the results of testing by the Kyoto Prefecture Tea Association (website in Japanese) for radiation contamination in tea leaves produced in Kyoto. Radiation contamination has not been detected in Kyoto tea leaves. Production Area Tea Type Radioactive Iodine Radioactive Cesium Test Date Uji City Sencha (fresh leaves) Not Detected [...]
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