sencha
Sign in to saveAlso known as sencha tea, steeped tea
thumb|200px|Steamed teas such as sencha produce a cloudy, richly coloured liquid.
Key facts
- Tea.Tea_name
- Sencha
- Tea.Tea_type
- Green
- Tea.Tea_color
- Green
- Tea.Tea_image
- 2017 Kagoshima sencha.jpg
- Tea.Tea_origin
- Japan
- Tea.Tea_names
- Steeped Tea, Ryokucha
- Tea.Tea_quick
- It is very popular in Japan. It is made from the upper leaves of the tea bush Camellia sinensis.
- Tea.Tea_time
- 1 min
via Wikipedia infobox
~6 min read
Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Caffeine content
- Types
- Shincha
- Kabusecha
- ''Senchadō''
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|200px|Steamed teas such as sencha produce a cloudy, richly coloured liquid.
is a type of Japanese green tea (, ) which is prepared by infusing the processed whole tea leaves in hot water. This is as opposed to matcha (), powdered Japanese green tea, where the green tea powder is mixed with hot water and therefore the leaf itself is included in the beverage. Sencha is the most popular tea in Japan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sencha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.