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2023 Author: Gabrielle Mercer | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-21 12:25
From the powder keg into the cup: a full load of nutrients. Tea Powder is THE trendy drink. The frothy tea strengthens the immune system and slows down cell aging.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Liv Tyler and Meg Ryan have long sworn by matcha tea, the green tea in powder form. But what exactly is so special about this powder, about which one hears so many good things? "It's 100 percent pure tea," says Thomas Grömer, expert and founder of the Kissa tea brand. "The difference is that you don't just drink the infusion, as with normal tea, which is strained: you consume the whole leaf in ground form." The advantage: With conventional tea, only about ten percent of the valuable ingredients dissolve, so you have to drink quite a lot of it to feel the good effect. With Tea Powder, on the other hand, the valuable antioxidants are not lost. Green tea contains more of this than any other natural food and is therefore considered the superfood par excellence. For comparison: Matcha contains 500 times more antioxidants than the much-acclaimed goji berry in recent years. The powdery preparation was invented by the Japanese. Matcha strengthens the immune system, lowers the cholesterol level and slows down cell aging, it is also an ideal stimulant. In contrast to an espresso, the caffeine works slower, but longer. What many do not know: Tea powder is not only available in green, black or rooibos tea can also be drunk in powder form.
Easy to prepare
If you want to drink the drink originally Japanese, you need the typical bulbous bowl, a "broom" to whisk and a bamboo spoon to measure. "It's very simple: For a cup, you take two bamboo spoons or 1/2 teaspoon of tea powder and pour it with around 80 ml of 80 ° hot water. Then beat it with a broom and drink it," explains Grömer. The powder is unbeatable not only as a drink, but also as a beauty ingredient, e.g. B. in a mask against impure skin, it works wonders: Mix half a teaspoon each of coconut oil & matcha with a little water, apply it to your face and leave it on for 10 minutes.