Matcha VS Green Tea

Matcha tea is a concentrated form of green tea that uses much more of the plant than you might get from a regular tea bag. Typically, you make tea by steeping a bag of tea leaves in water to the desired strength, but matcha goes a step further: it’s a powder, made from green tea leaves and mixed into a bowl of hot, but not boiling, water.

While there are some benefits to green tea, there are greater benefits to matcha tea because of its potent mix of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and amino acids. You would have to drink a few cups of regular green tea to benefit from the nutrient profile of a single two-ounce serving of matcha green tea.

Matcha tea has several benefits. It’s loaded with antioxidants, boosts metabolism and burns calories, calms the mind, relaxes the body, helps concentration, and lowers cholesterol and blood sugar, plus it’s packed full of fiber, chlorophyll, vitamin C, selenium, chromium, zinc, and magnesium.