genmaicha
Sign in to saveis a Japanese green tea combined with roasted popped brown rice. It is sometimes referred to colloquially as "popcorn tea" because a few grains of the rice pop during the roasting process and resemble popcorn, or as "people's tea", as the rice served as a filler and reduced the price of the tea, making it historically more available for poorer Japanese. Today all segments of society drink genmaicha. It was also used by people fasting for religious purposes or who found themselves to be between meals for long periods of time.
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- Tea.Tea_name
- Genmaicha
- Tea.Tea_type
- Green
- Tea.Tea_color
- Green
- Tea.Tea_image
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- Tea.Tea_origin
- Japan
- Tea.Tea_names
- (Kanji)Roasted rice tea"Popcorn tea"
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is a Japanese green tea combined with roasted popped brown rice. It is sometimes referred to colloquially as "popcorn tea" because a few grains of the rice pop during the roasting process and resemble popcorn, or as "people's tea", as the rice served as a filler and reduced the price of the tea, making it historically more available for poorer Japanese. Today all segments of society drink genmaicha. It was also used by people fasting for religious purposes or who found themselves to be between meals for long periods of time.
thumb|upright|left|Brewed and unbrewed genmaicha