My Matcha Life Tea Lover's Organic Ceremonial Matcha is an USDA/JONA Certified Organic Ceremonial Grade Japanese Matcha Tea. Shade grown and hand-picked at the first flush of spring when the leaves are young and fresh, bursting with the nutrients green tea is famous for, extremely smooth tasting, ideal for traditional style matcha and iced matcha.
The L-theanine amino acid is exclusive to tea and in Tea Lover’s Organic Ceremonial matcha green tea you get a super concentration of it, more so than in lower grades of matcha. Because Tea Lover’s is picked during the first harvest in spring it naturally contains higher l-theanine. As the leaves sit under the sun until the second harvest in August, the sunlight changes much of the l-theanine into tannins, which make the tea leaf taste bitter. Tea Lover’s Matcha is also abundant in antioxidants especially green tea’s most famous one, the EGCG catechin.
Japan makes the best matcha tea and has for the past 800 years. Tea Lover’s Matcha green tea is grown and harvested in Japan using traditional Japanese methods of hand-picking, shade-growing, de-stemming, and slowly stone grinding. These simple, traditional methods make the best tasting and most nutrient dense matcha.