So I'm sitting here anicipating this big hurricane's arrival (I'm not on the coast, just expecting the rains to make it this far north) and decided to brighten this dreary rainy day with some sushi and a green tea *cough* frappacino. Never tried it before. While it is an evil starbucks product (still waiting for someone decent to open on a college campus, interested Adagio? Or Maybe Petevu and his setup.), it is an interesting flavor. I've also had green tea ice cream before too at a sushi place.
So all of that rambling aside, what is the green tea powder they use in making these products? Is it ground up green tea leaves? Does it actually have any of the nutritional properties of drinking green tea?
Re: Green Tea Ice Cream
I drank organic green tea powder yesterday, I drank green tea, and you ate green tea icecream. there are two kinds of water form, but substance is same, THE GREEN TEA. 
I know that this eating way of green tea is very popular in Japan.
Cheers!
Cheeryking
I know that this eating way of green tea is very popular in Japan.
Cheers!
Cheeryking
Hi Lady Arden!
Most green tea ice creams are made with matcha, and the same goes for your green tea (cough!) Frapp.
The good news is that matcha is the healthiest tea you can drink (actually, eat), because you ingest the whole leaf. You can make these recipes at home very easily if you've got some decent matcha around. Decent, true matcha is very labor intensive to make, and thus is more expensive than most teas (except for most of my oolong stash), but the grade you need for ice cream and drinks is not as cost prohibitive as the ceremonial grades.
Usually, when I get a craving for green tea ice cream, I'll just mix a couple of teaspoons into a high-grade vanilla ice cream. My kids love it. Matcha smoothies are a hit too.
Feel free to email me at tracy@essencha.com or go to our website and download our catalog at www.essencha.com if you'd like to learn more about matcha and see our selection.
Best,
Tracy
Most green tea ice creams are made with matcha, and the same goes for your green tea (cough!) Frapp.
The good news is that matcha is the healthiest tea you can drink (actually, eat), because you ingest the whole leaf. You can make these recipes at home very easily if you've got some decent matcha around. Decent, true matcha is very labor intensive to make, and thus is more expensive than most teas (except for most of my oolong stash), but the grade you need for ice cream and drinks is not as cost prohibitive as the ceremonial grades.
Usually, when I get a craving for green tea ice cream, I'll just mix a couple of teaspoons into a high-grade vanilla ice cream. My kids love it. Matcha smoothies are a hit too.
Feel free to email me at tracy@essencha.com or go to our website and download our catalog at www.essencha.com if you'd like to learn more about matcha and see our selection.
Best,
Tracy
Tea...is a religion of the art of life. ~Okakura
college life is strangely difficult sometimes. I had tea and sushi last night with a couple friends... i ran out of my bottled water, and getting to a grocery store takes half an hour, so i had to make tea using the water fountain. someone checked out the cutting board from the front desk, so i used my beautiful santoku to cut a thick piece of salmon on a cookie sheet. after eating we went straight to a party, which means i forgot about the raw fish in my garbage can. in the end though, it was worth it. ^^
There are four advantages to green tea... Its beauty, its taste, its aroma, and its health benefits. Learn to enjoy the first three and you'll forget you drank it for the fourth. ^^