# Anyone here drink Matcha Green Tea?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-drink-matcha-green-tea/653251
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 18, 2013, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-drink-matcha-green-tea/653251 "2013-03-18T13:18:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2013, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-drink-matcha-green-tea/653251/1 "2013-03-18T13:18:14Z")
I’ve started drinking it. It’s supposed to have cancer fighting agents, help boost your well-being, and even increase your metabolism. Here’s a link with more info: [Matcha - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matcha#Health_benefits)
Anyone else try it with good results? I’ve started consuming about three glasses a day…and I have felt and seen some positive results. I’ve lost a bit more weight, I feel more alert for longer, and I generally feel calmer and less anxious. Coffee really makes me jittery and irritable so this Matcha might be just what I’m looking for. This may well be a placebo effect…but there’s nothing wrong with that right? 🙂
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### Author:  [@chowching](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowching)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2013, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-drink-matcha-green-tea/653251/2 "2013-03-18T13:29:11Z")
As long as it makes you feel good. 🙂
But here is a [list](http://www.healthmw.com/20/02/2012/mens-health/tea-side-effects-top-10-bad-effects-of-tea-on-health-49.html) of some of the side effects of drinking tea.
Does not stop me from drinking tea though. Wintermelon is my favorite. Tastes good. Also relaxes me.
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### Author:  [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-drink-matcha-green-tea/653251/3 "2013-03-18T13:45:25Z")
I drink a class of orange juice with matcha powder stirred in every morning. Probably not enough to make a difference, to be honest.
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### Author:  [@DragonAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DragonAsh)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-drink-matcha-green-tea/653251/4 "2013-03-18T13:55:21Z")
> [@chowching](#):
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> But here is a [list](http://www.healthmw.com/20/02/2012/mens-health/tea-side-effects-top-10-bad-effects-of-tea-on-health-49.html) of some of the side effects of drinking tea.
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> Simply we say as Tea, is a very important beverage drunk throughout the globe interestingly, even people are somehow addicted to this drink hugely!
Yeah, I’m probably not giving that article too much weight…
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### Author:  [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2013, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-drink-matcha-green-tea/653251/5 "2013-03-18T13:58:53Z")
Tea may very well have some side effects, but I wouldn’t trust anything off that linked website.
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> Urinary system is affected by large quantities of tea drinking as it’s researched that the immediate feeling to be urinated is arisen as tea is drunk.So, it’s concluded that it affects on the urinary bladder in a negative way while drunk in large quantities.
:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-drink-matcha-green-tea/653251/6 "2013-03-18T15:29:38Z")
[Yamamotoyama](http://www.amazon.com/Yamamotoyama-Green-Tea-16-bags/dp/B0002G3UY0) is the best green tea.
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### Author:  [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-drink-matcha-green-tea/653251/7 "2013-03-18T17:38:27Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#):
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> [Yamamotoyama](http://www.amazon.com/Yamamotoyama-Green-Tea-16-bags/dp/B0002G3UY0) is the best green tea.
Why?
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### Author:  [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-drink-matcha-green-tea/653251/8 "2013-03-20T04:15:17Z")
> [@Quasimodal](#):
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> Why?
Cheap green tea, mostly from China, is bitter and can barely be differentiated from jasmine tea. Yamamotyama, which is from Japan, has a sweetish chlorophyll taste and delivers a clean mellow buzz. It’s actually green, which most tea labelled as “green” tea is not.
Celestial Seasonings green tea is almost as good as Yamamotayama.
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### Author:  [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2013, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-drink-matcha-green-tea/653251/9 "2013-03-20T13:52:20Z")
> [@Mr.Duality](#):
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> [Yamamotoyama](http://www.amazon.com/Yamamotoyama-Green-Tea-16-bags/dp/B0002G3UY0) is the best green tea.
It’s also not [matcha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matcha). I’ve futzed around with matcha a bit, and either have or had a nice bowl and whisk. Didn’t devote enough time to it to get properly skilled at getting a nice foam on it. Stuff packed quite a punch, though…