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• Ingredients: Green tea (from Shizuoka) Contents: 1kg
• [What is covered tea?] Covered tea is a tea that is covered with a shading net in the tea garden for several days before the sprouts are picked to block strong sunlight and nurture the tea buds. Even in Shizuoka, there are not so many cultivation methods yet.
• 【Features of Kabusecha】The tea leaves that are grown by blocking the sunlight have an exceptional flavor. By shading the tea garden with a shading net, the chlorophyll in the tea leaves increases, and it becomes dark green. The color of the tea brewed with this leaf is a very beautiful green color. Since there is a lot of "theanine", which is an umami component, it is a tea with little astringency, mellow, and strong umami. It has a unique, elegant aroma of coated and cultivated tea.
• 【Deep steamed tea of Arahata Garden】Deep mushi manufacturing method that makes use of high-quality tea leaves: Arahata Garden tea is "deep mushi tea" made by the deep mushi manufacturing method, in which the tea leaves are steamed for 3~4 times longer than ordinary sencha.
• 【Tea on the Makinohara Plateau】The Makinohara Plateau has long sunshine hours and grows thick and nutritious tea leaves. By steaming these tea leaves for a long time, the tannin (bitter astringency) content is reduced, and the amino acid theanine (sweetness) is increased, resulting in a mellow tea. The tea leaves are fine, but they are characterized by a beautiful deep green, a mellow sweetness and a deep richness.
• 【Commitment to soil】At Arahata-en, we believe that "delicious tea can be made from thick, dark green tea leaves picked from powerful tea plants," and we are working on tea cultivation from soil preparation.
• 【Natural Reduction Farming Method Momigara Compost】Every autumn, we make Momigara compost by fermenting rice bran, rapeseed meal, etc. with soil-effective microbial bacteria. This is a natural reduction farming method in which this umami-rich rice compost is evenly spread over a vast field, causing microorganisms to grow in the soil, enriching the soil, and building soil strength.
• 【World Agricultural Heritage Shizuoka Tea Grass Field Farming Method】The tea grass field is a semi-natural grassland where grass such as grass and pampas grass that are put into the tea garden as organic matter are cut. It is a common scenery in Shizuoka Prefecture. The farming method of laying grass cut from the tea grass field in the tea garden produces higher quality tea. And this activity does not disrupt the mechanism of the natural world, but lives in harmony with living things. * Shizuoka's tea grass farming method was recognized as a World Agricultural Heritage Site by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on May 30, 2015.

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Green tea (from Shizuoka Prefecture)