The production process is different. The brief production process of matcha is: high-quality fresh green tea → steaming → grinding → ancient tea powder → ultrafine grinding → low-temperature drying → modern matcha. Matcha production adopts traditional grinding technology and modern superfine grinding technology, and the whole processing process is always carried out at low temperature, which can well retain the active components in tea.

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Different raw materials. Matcha requires high quality of raw materials, high content of amino acids, protein and chlorophyll, and low content of tea polyphenols and caffeine. Before picking, there are requirements for the picking time and leaf size of new tea.

The production time of matcha is short, only about 50 days. Matcha made from high-quality new tea produced in April and May has the best quality. Tea varieties used for processing matcha are also very particular. This kind of tea tree is cultivated by asexual propagation technology, which ensures the purity of tea tree varieties.

References:

Matcha _ Baidu encyclopedia