14 best cafés and tea rooms for green tea in Tokyo
Here are the capital’s best cafés and tea rooms for enjoying authentic Japanese green tea, matcha, hojicha and more. Tea is an art form in Japan. There’s often a formality…
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Ancient tea-producing area in China recognized as agricultural heritage
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization recently recognized three sites in China as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems. These three regions included an ancient tea-producing area in Anxi county in…
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New Japanese tea leaves auction for record 1.96 mil. yen
A 1-kilogram batch of hand-rolled new Japanese tea leaves from central Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture sold for a record 1.96 million yen (about $15,466) at the season’s inaugural auction on Monday.…
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Raising spirits with green tea vodka
What happens when a vice-president at a well-known hedge fund with bullish ambition decides to leave the finance sector and pursue her passion for clean ingredients? Well, a new product…
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Green Tea Extract is not appropriate to treat any infectious disease, including COVID-19
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were few treatment options available. This led many to consider alternative medicines and herbal remedies to treat or prevent COVID-19. Supplementation…
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‘Matcha’ popularity sees competition brewing among Japanese producers
The growing popularity of “matcha”-infused sweets and beverages sold at cafes and pastry shops in Japan is triggering fierce competition amongst green tea producers in their own backyard. Growers of…
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Coca-Cola Japan releases freeze-dried green tea and coffee cubes for instant brews
As rewarding as it can be to settle down inside a nice café or teahouse for a good brew, sometimes those on the go (or more so nowadays, staying home)…
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Green tea catechins might be useful as pan-coronavirus inhibitors
Scientists from the Queen’s University, Canada, have recently uncovered the broad-spectrum antiviral activity of epigallocatechin gallate, a bioactive compound from green tea, against highly pathogenic coronaviruses found in humans and animals. The…
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Mirume sells waste-free, to-go green tea for commuters in Japan
A morning stop called Mirume Dark Green Teahouse is colloquially known as the Green Tea Café. It’s located in Nagoya, Japan’s third largest city, in the heart of the morning…
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Japanese green tea-making robot
Japanese green tea-making robot has been presented on the World Robot Expo 2018. So, please, write a comment if someone’s already experienced it in their life?..
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Metal-phenolic Networks, Green Tea and Rusty Nail
Australian experts have developed a technique for assembling metall-phenolic networks using green tea infusions. Metal-organic (including metal-phenolic, of course) networks is not a very young but very promising direction of…
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Tea from Enshi and backward interval partial least squares algorithm
Chinese scientists have tested the effectiveness of determining the quality (and price) of young tea leaves, used to produce Yulu tea, from Enshi with the help of infrared spectroscopy and…
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Radical scavenging activity of Yabukita and Benifuuki
German researchers have tested the ability of green teas made from Yabukita and Benifuuki cultivars to protect skin cells from the effects of free radicals. 32 people took part in…
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Antioxidant properties of green tea aroma
During twenty weeks Japanese specialists were sprinkling with green tea ethanol solution the bedding in the cages for 9-week-old female mice. The bedding was soaked with the tea solution, and…
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Seven things that make green tea tasty
Following the link, you’ll find an easy and amusing, at first glance, article on how to make green tea taste better. Its authors proceed from the fact that green tea…
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Mice on green tea diet do not lose weight at night
For twenty days Brazilian scientists fed twenty Swiss four-month-old female mice two different diets. One group of mice received a standard diet, and the other — a high-glucose mixture of…
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Of green tea, thighs and wings
An international group of scientists, supported by Islamic Azad University, has conducted a study on how dietary green tea powder affects the immunologic parameters of broiler chicks and concluded that…
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Albino tea cultivars
Albino tea cultivars are tea trees whose leaves at some time (for example, in spring, at the beginning of the vegetation season) are notably lighter in color than those of…
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