Microground Tea: What is It and Why It’s a Superfood

Microground tea is the revived innovation that's now become popular in cafes, restaurants, and the mugs of tea lovers, offering both convenience and incredible health benefits. Microground tea, differs greatly from traditional loose leaf tea. With orthodox tea, you steep the dried or processed leaves of the tea plant in hot water to extract flavours and beneficial compounds. With microground tea, you consume the entire tea leaf, ensuring you get all the nutrients, antioxidants, and natural goodness in every sip!

 

What is Microground Tea?

Microground tea is a finely powdered form of tea where the whole leaf is meticulously ground into a smooth, consumable powder. Unlike regular tea, which only releases water-soluble compounds during steeping, microground tea lets you ingest the full spectrum of antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals naturally present in the leaves. This approach may be familiar to those who know it from matcha green tea, but microground tea is not limited to green tea alone. We also offer black microground tea and microground rooibos chai, expanding your options for flavour and health benefits. It basically applies the matcha process to all kinds of tea!

 

How Is Microground Tea Processed?

Producing high-quality microground tea involves several careful steps to retain maximum flavour and nutrients:

Harvesting: Only premium tea leaves are selected from cultivars known for their rich flavour and nutrient density. Matcha, for example, uses shade-grown green tea leaves. Rooibos microground tea comes from the Aspalathus linearis plant.

Preparation: Leaves are either steamed (in the case of green teas) or gently dried to prevent oxidation and lock in their natural compounds.

Destemming and Deveining: To ensure a smooth powder and concentrated nutrients, stems and veins are removed, leaving just the soft parts of the leaf.

Grinding: Premium leaves are stone-ground or milled using precise equipment, resulting in a consistent, fine powder. Traditional stone grinding, while slow, preserves delicate flavours and nutrients.

Quality Control: The finished powder is sifted for uniform texture, then packaged in airtight containers to maintain freshness and potency.

 

Why Choose Microground Tea?

At Old Growth Beverages we designed our microground teas to make enjoying tea lattes at home simple, quick, and delicious. Traditionally, making a tea latte involves steeping orthodox tea leaves, preparing a concentrate, then optionally adding steamed milk. With microground tea, there is no need for a concentrate. Just add a teaspoon of microground tea directly to milk or a non-dairy alternative and steam. This one-step method saves time and ensures bold, rich flavour that can stand up to the creamy texture of milk.

Because the powder form provides a more concentrated flavour, it works perfectly for lattes, smoothies, and even culinary recipes. Similar to how espresso cuts through milk in a coffee latte, microground tea ensures your tea latte is never bland, even when made with high-fat milk or plant-based alternatives like oat or almond milk.

 

Health Benefits of Microground Tea

Microground tea is more than just convenient, tasty, and great to share with loved ones. It's truly a nutritional powerhouse:

• Antioxidant-Rich: Consuming the whole leaf means you benefit from a higher concentration of polyphenols, catechins, EGCG (in green tea), and flavonoids that help combat oxidative stress and inflammation.
• Energy and Focus: The natural caffeine paired with L-theanine promotes steady energy and mental clarity without the jitters often caused by coffee.
• Detoxifying: Especially in green teas like matcha, high chlorophyll content supports the body’s natural detox processes.
• Immune Support: Microground rooibos and other varieties provide additional immune-boosting compounds such as aspalathin and quercetin.
• Metabolism Support: Microground green tea helps increase fat oxidation and calorie burn, making it a popular choice for weight management.

• Versatility: Use Microground yea not only in hot lattes but also in iced lattes, smoothies, baked goods, and savoury recipes for a nutritious boost.

 

Tips to Make the Perfect Microground Tea Latte

For the ultimate tea latte experience:

• Use milk with a higher fat percentage for a naturally sweeter, creamier drink.
• If your powder isn’t dissolving easily, whisk it with 2 ounces of boiling water first (just like matcha) before adding it to your milk.
• Experiment with simple syrups to customise your drink. For example, a homemade vanilla syrup can elevate a Heavenly Cream London Fog latte.

 

Discover the richness and health benefits of Microground Tea at Old Growth Beverages! A modern twist on a centuries-old tradition that fits perfectly into your wellness routine and busy lifestyle. We have the perfect mixes already perfected so that you can make the best drinks in 4 steps and just a couple minutes. Pure Japanese Matcha, London Fog, Chai, Rooibos Chai, Dirty Chai, and Vanilla Matcha!

 

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