This is some of the very last Japanese Matcha available.  It is from 2010 crops that were picked prior to the earthquake disaster......now is your chance, once it's gone, it's gone!

Izu Matcha...Luxury Gyokuro Green tea from Japan, stone ground to a powdered form.  This tea is traditionally used in the Japanese tea ceremony, but can be used in so many other ways, as a latte, or even as an ingredient in home made ice cream ( click here for recipes).   Matcha gets it's bright green color because it is grown in shade, producing a higher chlorophyll content.  Matcha tea is one of the healthiest drinks you could consume, why?.......  When you drink matcha you are consuming the entire leaf and so you lose non of the nutrients.  2 cups of brewed matcha contains 7 times the antioxidants of orange juice, 20 times that of apple juice and 20g of calcium (and no sugar!!!).  Matcha contains approximately 10 times the antioxidants of regular teas*

Origin:  Izu, Japan                    Sold by the ounce

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* Taken from the Certificate of Analysis #021068-1 Japan Measure Cerificator Constituent Breakdown: Standard tables of Food Composition in Japan 5th Revised Editions.

Drinking green tea can substantially improve your cholesterol levels, according to a recent review in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  Researchers determined that green tea consumption reduced overall cholesterol  and LDL (bad) cholesterol in the blood while not affecting HDL (good) cholesterol.Source "Green tea intake lowers fasting serum total and LDL cholesterol in Adults" by X.X.Zheng et al..Am J Clin Nutr, 8/11.