Well-read Matcha Tea fans already know we do not recognize any other types of matcha than those that have Japan as their country of origin. We are often criticised for that but we will not ease up and no one will take this opinion away from us. Milled tea from another country is powdered tea to us, not matcha.We often use comparison with Champagne – which also comes only from the Champagne area in France and other sparkling wines from other areas cannot use the name champagne.

It is a great pity that the benevolence of Japanese tea producers resulted in not having the word “matcha” protected, but on the other hand, it could be the reason why Japanese growers of matcha dedicate more care to their tea. 

In today’s article, we took a closer look at our teas but also the powdered teas from China, and we had all of them analysed. Understandably, we will not reveal the powdered tea brands but we are happy to share with you the results.

We were testing

Bio Matcha Tea Harmony, Premium, Chef, Imperial 

and 

two types of powdered teas from China 

Detailed results

Bio Matcha Tea Harmony – yeast, mould, heavy metals – pesticides  

Bio Matcha Tea Imperial – yeast, mould, heavy metals – pesticides 

Bio Matcha Tea Premium – yeast, mould, heavy metals – pesticides   

Bio Matcha Tea Chef – yeast, mould, heavy metals – pesticides 

Powdered tea from China A1 – yeast, mould, heavy metals – pesticides 

Powdered tea from China Z1 – yeast, mould, heavy metals – pesticides

For better overview, we put the basic measured values into the table above and you can make out the picture yourself. Especially the A1 type is worth mentioning, as the value 5,06 mg/kg in chromium is very high and the mould levels are also alarming. 

“What more should we say? Once again, we convinced ourselves that the quality of Japanese tea is much higher and the results once again confirmed us in buying ONLY THE ORIGINAL Japanese matcha tea.”

 

says Petr Patočka,,
managing director of Kyosun company,
owner of Matcha Tea brand.