| 1. Why does green Matcha tea turn into yellow during baking? |
| Natural Green Matcha is rich in chlorophyll, which easily being oxidized to yellow color during baking of high temperature, while the nutrition does not lost. Those Matcha sellers who claimed their matcha without any change of color during baking, techniquelly means there is food additives like sodium coppe chlorophylin being added, to ensure that matcha tea powder remain green color. |
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| 2. The color of Matcha cookies baked in different oven temperatures is different. |
| (5% Matcha, 15 minutes, upper part of the oven is 200 degrees, the lower part is 190 degrees) Before: green After: slightly yellowing |
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| 3. Why does good Matcha appear precipitation? |
| Green tea extract can dissolve in water, such as tea polyphenols, which are used as raw materials for tea beverage. However, green tea extract is yellow color, not green. Matcha is powdery solid milled by green tea. In the production process, due to grinding, stirring, collision, shaking and so on, the fine Matcha powder generates static electricity, thus agglomerates and produces the phenomenon of " flake formation". It is not easy to completely dissolve in water. It will be more obvious in autumn and winter. |
| Recommended method: |
| ● Freeze immediately after opening. |
| ● After standing for a period of time, the prepared Matcha will precipitate at the bottom. It is necessary to shake tea again when redrinking. |
| ● It is recommended to use Matcha sieve. |
| ● It is recommended to use matcha whisk, juicer to shake the teas. |
| ● Tea polyphenols, Tea Green Pigment and tea aroma components are very sensitive to heat. Please pay attention to water temperature and heating time to avoid discoloration of tea. |
| ● If the amount of Matcha is too little, the cake is not easy to appear green. If it is added too much, the internal structure of the cake is rough and the elasticity is reduced. The recommended addition amount of matcha tea powder is 1.2% - 1.4%. |
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| 4. Why does the ceremony Matcha tea smell of seaweed? |
| After shading, matcha tea become rich in amino acids, which lead to the unique taste of natural organic Match tea. |
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| 5. How to choose Matcha? |
| ● Color: pure natural Matcha, bright green color. |
| ● Size: the smaller the better, it is recommended to select 800-1000 mesh or above (the number is about larger and finer). |
| ● Aroma: fragrant, seaweed. |
| ● Taste: smooth and fresh in the mouth, sweet aftertaste. |
