Matcha Green Tea Health Secrets

By J Nicholson

If you want yourself and your loved ones to lead a healthier life,eat delicious food,feel great,look fabulous and have tons of energy to enjoy life more,this is the book you need to read.
This book contains all the incredible health properties of Matcha green tea,including delicious,easy to follow low-fat recipes that the whole family can enjoy!

• Language: English
• Publisher: J Nicholson
• Release date: Sep 23, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301851799

J Nicholson

Joy resides in the UK with her husband and her 18 year old son. She works for a charity and do voluntary work for the local church and schools.

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INTRODUCTION

What exactly is Matcha Green Tea?

As you go through each chapters of this book you will discover the magic behind this amazing tea plant. You will learn its incredible health benefits from weight loss, fighting cancer, preventing heart attack, acne cure and many more! Let me introduce you to Matcha Green Tea, in Asia they describe it as a Culinary Delight! A Luxury of Love! Nature’s Own Energy Drink! So………what is matcha?

MATCHA is the finest green tea in the world and the most exciting rediscovery of the 21st century. Matcha is planted only in special shadowed tea plantations. Weeks prior to the harvest, the tea fields are entirely covered by nets. This results in up to 90% reduction in levels of sunlight reaching the plants and is compensated for by an intense production of chlorophyll.

The leaf is enriched with amino acids which combined, with the extremely high caffeine content, produces a particularly gentle, long-acting energising effect. Experts pick only the finest leaves from the crop. After drying them, the entire leaf is grinded with special granite grinding wheels. This creates a fine, jade-green powder. When whisked with water, it creates a unique, beautiful and full of flavour drink.

It takes about one hour to mill 30 grams of Matcha. The health benefits of Matcha tea exceed those of ordinary green tea because when you drink Matcha you ingest the whole leaf, not just the brewed water. One glass of Matcha is the equivalent to ten glasses of green tea in terms of its nutritional value and antioxidant content.

Virtually zero calories, makes Matcha the ultimate energy drink without any of the side effects found in the highly sugared, over-caffeinated beverages sold in stores. L-theanine which is a rare amino acid, found almost exclusively in green tea promotes a state of relaxation and well-being and can provide an energy boost lasting up to six hours.

Matcha originated in China in the Ninth Century and was developed to use as a medicine. According to Chinese literature of the third century A.D., green tea was regularly used as a remedy for swelling, depression and other illnesses.

During the Song Dynasty just after the turn of the first millennium, the practice of grinding tea and storing the powder in bricks was invented. In 1191, the Zen Buddhist monk Eisai returned to Japan from a pilgrimage in China, bringing with him a new way of producing green tea, and the tea bush seeds from which he would change the nation.

Eisai is even said to have served the tea to the Japanese emperor himself, spreading alongside the practice of Zen Buddhism. Consumption of green tea became an integral part of Japanese religion and culture.

The popularity of Matcha continues to date, supported by the biggest names in the food/beverage service industry, including Nestle, Starbucks, Jamba Juice, Haagen Dazs, and Booster Juice.

Antioxidants, one of the biggest buzz words in nutrition are naturally occurring chemical compounds that prevent ageing and chronic diseases. Nowadays, a variety of fruits and vegetables are lauded for their antioxidants properties, leading to a host of products with all kinds of claims. In comparison Matcha is