Water For Tea

One of the requirements to prepare tasty Japanese tea is selection the water .

It is important for good tea to select soft water.

This point is not familiar to Japanese people because almost every type of Japanese water is very soft water.And, very soft water is suitable for Japanese tea and Japanese cuisine.

The tea using hard water won’t taste so good and lose flavor.

There is plenty of hard water in Europe.And,hard water is suitable for  Europe cuisine.

Hm mm, it is interesting.

Anyway,I recommend soft water !

Water hardness indicates the amount of the calcium and the magnesium in the water.

Very soft: 0-60 ppm
Soft: 60-120 ppm
Hard: 120-180 ppm
Very hard > 180 ppm

Japanese water hardness is　about 20-30 ppm

Below is the list of popular mineral waters of soft water.

Table1.Popular mineral water of soft water

Furthermore,I made the list of more soft waters of the world.

This list is sorted alphabetically by country and brand
I hope this list can help you select the water for preparing Japanese tea.
When you buy the water,please check the label of the water bottle yourself.

Table2.Soft waters of the world

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