- 4-ounce box
- Has a good flavor
- Green tea leaves are grounded to fine powder
Product Description
Japenese Green Tea milled to a super fine powder. Perfect for baking & culinary recipes or for making lattes & smoothies…. More >>
$17.23
SerendipiTea Matcha Culinary Grade, Organic Green Tea, 4-Ounce Box
I bought this because I just couldn’t see putting my good matcha into smoothies. To my surprise, it’s not terrible to drink (and most of the organic matcha I’ve tried in the US has been). It’s still mostly for smoothies and cookies, but also for off mornings when I won’t appreciate the good stuff. (I certainly appreciate the good stuff more after one of those.)
Rating: 4 / 5
I’ve been adding Matcha to my morning “smoothie” for several months now but have been looking for something a bit cheaper than what I’ve been using. A search here at Amazon pointed me toward SerendipiTea Matcha, Culinary Grade. It is perfect for my needs.
When the box arrives, I open it immediately and put the contents into a canning jar–a rubber gasket-ed “Fido” style jar. This does two things for me: it gets it out of the shipping packaging but it also makes it easier to access on the fly.
The flavor of this Matcha is as good as the non-culinary Matcha that I have tasted–at least for my “smoothies.” I have yet to try it in hot form.
My only complaint about this tea is that it is not available for Subscribe & Save ordering. In fact, as I write this, there is none is stock–a condition I hope is temporary.
03/06/10 Addendum:
Amazon has just added this to Subscribe and Save and I could not be happier.
Rating: 5 / 5
Did not care for their organic green tea at all, but their fruit teas are the best.
Rating: 3 / 5
I started purchasing matcha about a year after they started selling it at Starbucks and Jamba Juice. live near San Francisco’s Japantown and have tried several brands, varying in price from about $6 to $11 for approximately 1 ounce packages. I was happy to find what I thought was a great deal on Amazon, which with the subscription discount works out to less than $4 an ounce. The package shipped quick, but as others have noted, comes in an unsealed package. I wouldn’t freak out about that, but all things being equal, I’d have more confidence if the package was sealed. Bigger complaint is the quality is not up to snuff. It does not mix properly and tastes bitter compared to the matcha that I’m used to. I tried it twice (once with soy milk, another time with non-fat milk), and on both occasions it created a strange mixing effect, with the top half of the glass mixing nicely and the bottom half a murky mess that wouldn’t mix properly. Both times the drink left me naueseous. I don’t claim to be a green tea expert, so I’m giving it two stars instead of one, but I’ve never had these problems with store-bought matcha in Japantown (or at Starbucks and Jamba Juice, for that matter). I would not recommend and have cancelled my subscription.
Rating: 2 / 5
I didn’t like this tea at all. I prepared it according to package directions but it was very, very green and kind of thick. I didn’t like the taste but I will admit I didn’t drink much of it. I think I’ll stick to the regular white, green and oolong tea. I thought of making the tea “weaker” but didn’t….I don’t think I would have liked it any better
Rating: 2 / 5