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How to make Matcha powder and the function and benefit of it

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Author : Joe Huang
Update time : 2020-07-02 16:29:52
                                                                                                    Matcha  powder
The raw material of matcha is a kind of small piece of tea without rolling, 20 to 30 days before the green tea is picked, build a canopy frame on the green tea with bamboo, wire scaffolding, and then cover with straw curtain, also cover it around with grass curtain to block the sun, keep the shading rate 98% or more, so that the green tea will be more bitter, more green. To steam the picked green leaves the very day, and then directly put it into the baking oven drying without rolling, such a large dry tea is called "barren tea ". Then put the barren tea into the cold storage, stock it at minus centigrade temperature, to improve the glucose composition, make it more sweet. The barren tea is taken out from the cold storage before using, restore to normal temperature for processing, after cutting, screening and other processes, turn into small piece of 0.3 cm square, grinding tea. Mill the grinding tea with natural stone to form a powder called matcha. Tea grinding is a traditional equipment used to crush tea, although modernly airflow pulverizer or ball mill is also used, but fineness can not reach that of stone grinding. Moreover, the peculiar temperature of the stone is the last process of Matcha powder,increasing the frangrance. The Matcha powder by stone mill, with frangrance of sea moss and Zongye. Powder green tea that is crushed by other means, is called green tea powder. Because of the fineness, aroma, color difference,the price and usage are also completely different.
Matcha is rich in nutrients and trace elements that are necessary to human body. Its main components are tea polyphenols, caffeine, free amino acids, chlorophyll, protein, aromatic substances, cellulose, vitamin CAB1B2B3B5B6EKH and so on. More than 30 kinds of trace elements, such as potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, sodium, zinc, selenium, fluorine, etc.
Studies have shown that the main components of Matcha, tea polyphenols, can remove excessive harmful free radicals in the body, regenerate high-efficiency antioxidant substances such as α - ve, VC, GSH, SOD in human body, so as to protect and repair the antioxidant system, and has significant effects on enhancing the body's immunity, preventing cancer and anti-aging. Drinking Matcha for a long time can reduce blood sugar, blood lipid and blood pressure, thus preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The medical research team of Japan's Showa University put 10000 highly toxic E.coli 0-157 into 1 ml of tea polyphenol(main components of Matcha) solution that is diluted to 1 / 20 of the ordinary tea water, after five hours, all the bacteria died and none remained. Japanese women like to add Matcha to the finished milk or yogurt they buy, because it can double the shelf life. Therefore, primary and secondary schools in Japan provide free green tea powder to children all year round,in some schools that have good conditions, green tea with Matcha is provided to prevent gastrointestinal diseases. The cellulose content of Matcha is 52.8 times of spinach and 28.4 times of celery. Its functions of eliminating food, relieving greasiness, reducing weight and body-building, and removing acne are favored by current beauty-loving women.
Ningxia Pure Goji Biology Technology is a professional supplier of Matcha powder. Here we have both organic Matcha powder and conventional Matcha powder available. For either specification,  we have different grade,namely, Grade A,Grade AA,Grade AAA,Grade AAAA. Different grade, different price.
Our Matcha is well recognized and accepted by our clients in USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia.