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In the recent years western tea industry has gone through many changes. When tea consumers and healthy conscious people showed interested for exploring teas with all their flavors and health benefits, many companies saw the opportunity for developing new products and starting new trends. Forget about the tiny fannings and even the whole loose leaf tea - tea powder is about to take over many hearts. One of the tea powders – matcha – is already worldwide famous, and there is a whole specter of colors popping out across the globe.

What is a Tea Powder?

Tea powder is made by grinding tea leaves into small water soluble particles. Tea powders have been used in Japan for many years, and we are not talking only about matcha tea. Regular sencha green tea powders have much bigger particles than matcha, and are used as a ready-to-go tea powder for preparing tea in the fast way. Hojicha is another tea popular for grinding, and these days more than often drank as a latte. Chinese tea producers are offering different white, black and oolong powders as a substitute for the usual green tea powder. Even African tea can be found in the powdered form – made of white and purple tea leaves.

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The Opportunity recognized by Cafes

Tea powders created a huge opportunity for cafes to offer a new type of drink that could actually have high health benefits. They don't necessarily include pure loose leaf teas ground into powder, but other healthy ingredients as beetroot, ginger, turmenic, pumpkin and peppermint.

Be Careful When Buying Tea Powder

Although the benefits of drinking tea powder instead of regular loose leaf tea might be a bit higher, they will ultimately depend on the source of the ingredients, quality and the whole ingredients list. Some of them might contain added sugars or teas of lower quality. Do not buy tea online from the unknown and unreliable sources. If you have a good quality leaves, you can even make your own tea powder at home. Besides, ingredients like ginger and turmenic usually come in powdered form.

How to Use Them?

Any tea powder can be used for making a regular cup of tea or a latte. Do not exaggerate with the amount of powder and follow the instructions. Powder tea latte can be made with different types of milk – rice, almond, soy, regular cow's skimmed or full fat – the choice is on you. Play with numerous possibilities or even mix up your own tea powder and you will understand what the new craze is all about.