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What exactly is matcha? What is its history?
Japan claims to be the country that knows matcha best in the world, and matcha can also be seen in many of their cuisines, but matcha originated from the tea ceremony and was brought back to China by Tang envoys during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. After Diancha was brought back to Japan, it was quickly loved by the nobles, but after years of development, tea planting and tea ceremony have undergone great changes. Therefore, Japan did not learn the kungfu tea we drink now, but kept the earlier matcha. The finished form of matcha is powder, which is to evaporate the picked tea leaves and grind them into powder in a tea mortar, instead of directly crushing them with green tea leaves.

Although many people claim to like the taste of matcha best, they have no idea what matcha is. Of course, consumers can't be blamed for being stupid, because most of the "matcha powder" circulating in China market is only green tea powder. Matcha is green tea that is ground into powder and steamed with natural stone mill. Compared with green tea powder, the raw materials of matcha powder are all green tea leaves, but the matcha powder is finer, the mesh of green tea is generally several hundred meshes, and the mesh of matcha is generally several thousand meshes and finer. With the rapid advancement of industrialization and urbanization, environmental and health problems are increasingly prominent, chronic diseases are increasingly threatening people's health, and the public's demand for nutrition and health is increasing, which promotes the rapid development of natural nutrition and health products such as matcha.

Matcha is bright and tender and can be eaten directly. In order to ensure its quality, the tea trees that make matcha are carefully selected and must be varieties with high chlorophyll and theanine content and low caffeine and tea polyphenols content. Matcha has dozens of processes: mashing, steam deactivation, cooling, drying, stem-leaf separation, sand removal, sterilization, quick drying and grinding, before it can become matcha. But compared with drinking pure matcha, "eating matcha" is the most fashionable way. Most people say they love matcha, but you may not love this kind of tea, but all kinds of matcha-flavored desserts.