Drinking Green Tea Benefits

Green tea has gotten very popular over the last few years. It’s one of those things that we think we have discovered, when in fact it has been in existence for thousands of years. One of the forms you can find green tea is as powder, and the most popular of them is the famous Matcha green tea powder.

I love drinking green tea, but when I first started drinking it I didn’t found it in the form of powder. After having tasted it I now there’s a big difference mostly in terms of how it looks. The Matcha green tea powder has a beautiful emerald color. This type of tea is not among the cheapest ones, since the tea buds are all handpicked and it takes time to grind this type of tea.

From what I’ve read, this beautiful color is achieved through a process in which the manufacturers are required to shade from the sun the leaves for a period of a month approximately.

Like all types of green tea, Matcha green tea powder adds many benefits to our health. It is amazing how this herb can contain so many beneficial properties. If I had just knew about them back when I was younger… The good thing is that we are re-learning ancient knowledge and now it is our duty to help our kids learn to opt for natural ways of preventing problems and living a healthier lifestyle.

Benefits of Matcha green tea powder include: an increase of energy throughout the day with reduced but effective levels of caffeine, improved mental alertness, stress reduction, an increase of the metabolic rate (this means an also increase fat consumption), helps controlling hypertension or high blood pressure, helps controlling bad cholesterol levels in our bodies, stabilize glucose, it is an excellent detoxifier and alkalyzer.

Besides these drinking green tea benefits, Matcha green tea powder is an excellent source of antioxidants. These components will greatly improve our skin’s health and will also play an important role in preventing skin cancer.

If you can I’d recommend you opt for organic matcha green tea powder. The term “organic” means that no chemical fertilizers and other components have been used to grow the plant. This will help you get a much more pure form of the green tea powder. Many of the products we nowadays eat or drink have traces of these chemicals and we don’t know how they can affect us in the long term.

If you want to buy matcha green tea powder you can find it on many online stores dedicated to health, natural living. You can find it on many prices, mostly depending on quality. The “organic” one is the most expensive. You can also find this type of green tea on Amazon (by the way, there are some decent customer reviews then, so this stuff must be really good!), although I personally buy it on a local store.

You can also take your powder and get creative! Hot green tea is not the only way to take advantage of the matcha benefits. Recipes that use this matcha green tea powder include the Ceremonial Matcha, the Cold Matcha and the ultra-modern Iced Matcha latte! Here in the South of the planet, the weather is getting very hot, so Iced Matcha is the way to go!

By the way, this Matcha green tea powder is very used in Japan and not only to brew, but also as an ingredient to food and deserts like green tea ice cream, castellan, manju, monaka and kakigori. If you haven’t heard about these dishes don’t worry, just do a search online and you’ll find some delicious surprises besides drinking green tea!