Time and again I am asked which is the best green tea drink. I'm well aware of the various types which include Matcha, White Tea, Sencha, Gyokuro, Sencha Red, and others.

 

I am often tempted to say that the best one is the one you drink consistently - but that would be incorrect.

 

I say that because I always think of excellent tea when I think of drinking tea.

 

Because this beverage is a relatively new experience here in the United States, people have yet to learn a number of key distinctions between buying what is readily available - and something which will actually gives them the green tea benefits they're really looking for.

 

Make no mistake about it, the difference between quality green tea and 95% of the tea that consumers are using is literally night and day.

 

The best green tea drink is 'young'

 

Scientists and nutritionists tell us that for your tea to actually deliver its world-famous benefits it should be consumed within six to eight months of the tea leaf coming off the plant.

 

After being harvested, well-known, 'household' brands only get to the supermarket shelves after numerous stops. From the warehouse in Asia, it's loaded onto cargo ships which lumber across the Pacific. Once it makes it to a distributor's warehouse it eventually gets shipped to the manufacturer's processing plant, then to another warehouse, then to the supermarket's warehouse, and finally to your Grocer's shelf.