MAEDA-EN Maeda Sen Cha Green Tea, 5.3 OZ

This green tea actually offers all the benefits of drinking green tea that you see promoted online everywhere. I hate to break it to some folks but your nylon tea bags with broken leaves aren’t what you want if you’re looking to benefit from the weight loss properties found in green tea. But this tea? It’s nice whole leaves and that brew perfectly with little bitterness. Pro tip: don’t let your water come to a full boil, pull it right before and that’s when you should steep the leaves for no more than 4 minutes. Lovely taste, color, and quality. Would buy again 10/10

can look up the current best practices, studies, etc on National institutes Of health NIH.GOV Pubmed since they may have changed since i researched it: i try to get sencha green tea that hasnt been sitting around more than 6 months since the manufacture date. steep in 185 degrees fahrenheit distilled water for 3 minutes. then cool it by pouring it into multiple shallow chilled vessels and blow on it. i add ascorbic acid and maybe maple syrup for the sucrose component.japan sencha is steamed but not sure of they are all steamed. not sure if this has risk of acrylamide. versus the china ones may be pan fried or wok fried pan fired wok fired and not sure if those processes use teflon like vessels. these may have heavy metals. i get blood clots and am on blood thinner so that is why i get sencha rather than matcha (if your blood thinner is the type that is affected by vitamin k or if your body is adversely affected by vitamin k). too much green tea i read can affect your liver/kidney(??). you can do due diligence research, ask your doctor, etc. consumer labs (paid)has repoets on egcg content of certain brands since the egcg amounts vary across brands,.etcUpdate 5/14/2025 : i do notice a difference between this one and the yamamotoyama brand sencha.

This has always been one of my favorite sencha's and I've tried a lot. And it's not expensive.

This is very good tea and especially for the price point you get a lot.

A good product but the price doubled in less than 3 weeks, therefore 1 star. Play games with the prices get bad ratings.

Make sure to make it strong.

Lots of stems. I pick them out before washing the tea leaves and brewing, which yields a decent cup of tea. The problem is that the stems weigh more than the leaves so one thinks they're getting 5.3 oz of sencha, but in reality there's a decent portion of weight made up by stems instead of sencha tea leaves. If the vendor corrected this I think it would be a very decent budget sencha. But I don't think I'll order again because there are so many stems. The most I've ever encountered in any sencha -- by a lot.

From Japan and it tastes good. Does have a few twigs and stems, So what. I just wish it was organic. Oh, and the price was right.