Green Tea Ice Cream
Grab an Green Tea Ice Cream Today!
Green tea, or matcha, is a Japanese tea which is specially
used in tea ceremonies. It is also being used to add color
to certain foods like noodles, green tea ice cream and several
Japanese confectioneries.
Matcha
Matcha is a green powdered tea which is made by steaming
and drying gyokuro tea- leaves. In order to get best quality
of green tea powder, the tea bushes are protected from sun
for about three weeks before the leaves are harvested. The
leaves are then de-veined, and powdered with the help of a
stone grinder into to a superfine powder, which is the matcha
powder.
The best quality matcha powder comes from the Uji Taware
area where the highest producer of the green tea powder is
Nishio on the island of Honshu. This powder has been used
to flavor sweets and ice cream not only in Japan, but also
all over the world.
Green tea ice cream is a popular product in the USA and Europe
following the fad of the green tea itself. Green tea is considered
to be one of the best herbal teas available to man, mostly
for its anti-oxidant properties. Good quality green tea is
very expensive and rare, so the green tea ice cream is considered
a delicacy in the world.
Other than green tea ice cream, you will be able to find
the goodness of the green tea captured in the form of cereal
and energy bars. The matcha powder is quite a common ingredient
in many Japanese sweets such as kakigori, matcha-shio, castella,
manju, etc. and also Western sweets such as chocolates, puddings,
Swiss rolls, cheesecake, cookies and obviously the famous
green tea ice cream.
The green tea powder is also added to several beverages such
as lattes, milkshakes, iced drinks and even alcoholic drinks.
Among all these, the green tea ice cream is the most popular
one because of its fine taste and its health value.
The medical benefits of green tea are various, it can help
in digestion, removing the free radicals from the body, relaxes
blood vessels hence preventing heart attacks, it also fights
cancerous cells and prevents cancer, it can also prevent high
blood pressure and best of all, is reducing weight.
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