Matcha Parfait

Today in Japan, a matcha parfait which is one of desserts using matcha powder is becoming very popular.  So,I went to the cafe “IYEMON SALON” which is run by Suntory , famous for their product ” Iyemon Cha bottled tea “. 

I ate pretty gorgeous parfait whose price was 930yen.

IYEMON Parfait

 And when you order tea ,Tea and Houhin-teapot come and you make tea yourself.

Houhin and Tea

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Genuine Uji Tea

Today Uji tea is well known as a luxury brand from famous tea- producing area. That is believed to date from over all those years ago.

In 1911, the Sung dynasties, Eisai who was a master of Zen brought back tea seeds to Japanese from China and taught Japanese people about matcha tea ceremony technique. In1207, saint Myoue in Madarao kozanji temple, Kyoto sowed the seeds inherited from Eisai in the field of Uji, which was that the origin of Uji tea. In Muromachi period, the Ashikaga shogunate encouraged the people to grow Uji tea, which spread the brand name and how wonderful Uji tea is.

Uji tea is the Japanese traditional tea that produced in the south of Kyoto. And also Uji tea is defined as that 100 percent of tea leaves are produced in Kyoto. Additionally, the following tea also can be called Uji tea. It is that over 50 percent of the tea leaves is produced in Kyoto and blended with the tea leaves produced in Shiga, Nara, and Mie of Kansai region.

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Green Tea Coke

There are a lot of flavors in the world of Coke. In Japan, new flavor Coke is available in the market. Believe it or not, its green tea flavor!

Green Tea Coke

It does not really taste like green tea, but you can slightly feel the aroma of green tea. Not really good for me. I like cherry Coke better

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Japanese Tea Helps Your Diet

The effect paid attention most might be the reducing of body fat though there are a lot of effects of preventing adult diseases like cancer, arterial sclerosis, and elevated blood pressure in Japanese green tea.

The secret of reducing the body fat is in the catechin of the astringency element included in Japanese green tea.

It has three effects of reducing the body fat though the catechin is a kind of the polyphenol.

1. Effect of burning fat by catechin

Fat burns by the working of “the enzyme of burning fat” in the liver, and is changed into energy. Catechin has an effect of making working of the enzyme of burning fat in the liver active and burning fat efficiently.

2. Effect of burning more calories by catechin

The catechin has antioxidant properties, normalizes the condition of lipid in the blood, and promotes the circulation of blood.It burns more calories in the body as a whole, reduces body fat, and change into lean habit of body by promoting the circulation of blood.

3. Interfering with fat absorption by catechin

The fat taken by meal is absorbed into the body by working of bile acid in intestine. The catechin has the effect of interfering the absorption of fat by this bile acid. Therefore, it becomes difficult by drinking tea during and after a meal to enhance the quantities of cholesterol in the blood and the body fat.

It is necessary to take about 500mg of the catechin to decrease the body fat simply by drinking tea when guessing from research results by various research laboratories every day. It is necessary to drink seven cups of tea or more to take about 500mg of the catechin though it depends on how to brew tea.
Dieting with only tea is quite difficult, but it is safe to say that drinking Japanese tea become of considerable help for dieting by your appropriate exercise and proper nutrition.

Why don’t you incorporate Japanese tea into daily eating?

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Relax with Japanese Tea

Japanese green tea is effective also for the relieving of stress in daily life.

It is because a lot of vitamins C are contained in Japanese green tea. When the mind and body is stressed, internal organs called adrenal gland in the inside of the body makes a large amount of adrenal cortex hormone(steroid), increase blood glucose levels, and helps resistance for mind and body to develop. Vitamin C is necessary for synthesizing this adrenal cortex hormone. Therefore, the consumption of vitamin C rises in a stress situation. Vitamin C is readily available for adrenal gland in a stress situation by taking vitamin C usually a lot, so the body becomes strong to stress. 

Moreover, there is an effect of untangling nerves and relaxing also in vitamin E.  So Japanese tea ceremony is very effective in the relaxation, because vitamin E can be taken by drinking Matcha.

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Ice Extracting Gyokuro Tea

For tea lovers, I believe that it is common knowledge that too hot water will extact astringency from tea leaf when preparing tea.

High-quality Japanese tea like Gyokuro, these tea leaves are grown under the screen to prevent exposing to sunbeam. This is because sunbeam will make tannin, which is the source of astringency. So gyokuro itself has less tannin, less astringency. Although, if you use boiling water to prepare Gyokuro, tannin will be extacted from the leaf. This is the reason that you should NOT use too hot water for Gyokuro. Proper temperature of the hot water for Gyokuro will be around 60 degrees Celcius, however more lower temperature will be better if you don’t want to extract tannin at all.

Then what is the lowest temperature water for Gyokuro? This question is same as asking “What is the lowest temperature of water?”. Yes, its zero degrees Celcius

So, I tried ice extraction. It’s so simple.

Put 4 grams of Gyokuro on a saucer (believe or not, tea pot is better! lol), and put couple of ices on the leaf. That’s it!

Wait patiently until the ices melt down. Move extracted tea to a cup and have a sip. You must be surprized by the difference from the taste of extracting Gyokuro with hot water.

Very very sweet like candy and completely no astringency. I recommend that you try this with Gyokuro. It’s so cool!

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Sterilize by Japanese Tea

I’m so afraid of swine flu. 
To wash your hands and gargle after returning home are very important to prevent flu.

Catechin contained in Japanese green tea has  an antibacterial action and an antiviral effect. There are people who gargle to prevent from the cold by using Japanese green tea after extracting some times in Japan. 

Moreover, how about the bath of Japanese green tea? Put the used tea leaves wrapped in a kitchen paper into the bath. Sterilization and a deodorant action the catechin of green tea are good for your health and beautiful skin. And an unpleasant smell is erased. Plus you can refresh mentally and physically by the smell of green tea having the effect of relax.

Tonight I take green tea bath. Of course I used the tea leaves after extracting three times.

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Beauty and the Japanese Tea

Japanese green tea has the effects for beautiful skin and anti-aging. Vitamin A, C, and E that green tea abundantly contains keep your skin beautiful and forestall aging.

Most of effects for beautiful skin are made by working of vitamin A and C. Vitamin A makes mucous membranes such as the skin, noses, and throats strong, and improves the immunity. Immunity acquired by vitamin A controls breeding of the acne bacterium that causes acne, and it is effective against the troubles of the skins such as a dry skin and psoriasis also.

Vitamin C is known to an element required for the synthesis of collagen which has a cosmetic advantage. Vitamin C helps the generation of collagen, and brings the skin’s suppleness. Moreover, it is effective to change a black melanin into the reduced melanin and to combat freckles , and to decrease cholesterol.

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Tea Keep You Awake

Tea contains caffeine.

Since caffeine has a stimulant effect to get the brain to fire more efficiently, caffeine is useful for keeping awake.As naming of caffeine came from coffee,
coffee is  best known as caffeinated drink. But actually  red tea has caffeine much than coffee.

Japanese green tea contains caffeine too. Sencha has about one-half of the caffeine contained in coffee. Gyokuro has about 4 times of the caffeine  contained in coffee! Unlike in coffee, the caffeine in Japanese green tea act gently as the stimulant. Because theanine contained in Japanese green tea inhibit the stimulant action of the caffeine. Therefore, it may be said that Japanese green tea has a optimum stimulant effect.

If you drink a cup of Japanese green tea every morning, you have a lot of energy.

Table.Caffeine content of beverages

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Japanese Tea for Next Generation Espresso

Web 2.0 zillionaires choice Japanese tea and no more espresso. According to the article in wired.com, these zillionaires are fond of drinking tea and in Silicon Valley, tea is pushing out the place for coffee.

Big wave is really coming, but will tea market grow and replace Starbucks? It may take time, but I hope so. But I also love espresso, so I don’t want tea to totally replace espresso

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