Have you tried a matcha latte yet?

Matcha lattes have risen to popularity over the last few years because of their brilliant health benefits and pleasant, sweet taste.

You may not find them in your big high street cafes yet, but a lot of independent coffee shops are selling them now.

Matcha is the highest quality powdered green tea available. The nutrient-rich leaves are picked from the plants, then steamed, stemmed, and de-vined before being stoneground into very fine powder.

The powder is them mixed with hot water, or milk, meaning you ingest 100% of the nutrients from the leaf. Unlike, a normal cup of green tea, where a lot of the nutrients are left behind. In fact, Matcha contains up to 10x more nutrients than a normal cup of green tea.

It can also be added to smoothies, cakes and other baked goods.

A Matcha Latte tastes nothing like a regular cup of green tea. They are normally made with matcha powder, coconut milk and agave syrup (a natural sweetener), which gives it a delicate, sweet taste.

What are the benefits of Matcha?

Matcha contains a concentrated amount of antioxidants, and if you include it in your diet it may help reduce cell damage and lower your risk of several chronic disease.

It provides ten times the amount of antioxidants in a cup of regular green tea, and beats almost every superfood

in regards to antioxidants, containing eight times more per serving than goji berries, 16 times more than blueberries, and 130 times more than spinach.

One cup of matcha provides 32 grams of caffeine, which is three times as much as a regular cup of green tea and half of a small cup of coffee.

This means that matcha might be what you need to wake up in the mornings and start your day feeling alert, but not jittery. Matcha green tea benefits include a generous dose of LTheanine, which is responsible for producing dopamine and serotonin, two chemicals that naturally improve your mood, enhance your memory, and even make it easier to concentrate on essential tasks. can leave you feeling jittery, matcha tea is renowned for promoting an ‘alert calm’ in drinkers, thanks to the amino acid l-theanine.

This causes the tea’s caffeine content to be absorbed slower than other kinds of caffeine, giving you the benefits for hours without risk of overdoing it.

Matcha is filled to the brim with catechins, which are the most beneficial and most potent antioxidants available.

One type of catechin, called the epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), comprises 60% of the catechins found in matcha green tea and is renowned for its cancer-fighting properties

Matcha can increase the rate at which fat is burned as well as decrease the formation of new fat cells.

This is because matcha can boost your metabolism, which is your body’s rate of burning calories each day. This means starting your day with matcha might make your workouts more effective.

Drinking matcha green tea is proven to be healthy for your heart.

Research from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that catechins in green tea can lower your LDL (bad) cholesterol, and it can also decrease your risk of suffering a stroke.

Matcha green tea’s health benefits mean that all those antioxidants are available to help support your skin health by reducing inflammation and preventing the development of damaging free radicals that lead to aging skin.