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The Global Matcha Research Library

641 papers, trials, theses and preprints that study matcha, gathered from PubMed, OpenAlex and Europe PMC, tagged by study type and topic, and linked back to every source. We keep abstracts and citations; the full text stays with its publisher.

Tip: use "quotes" for an exact phrase, OR between alternatives, and a minus to leave a word out, for example fluoride OR pesticide. Related words are matched too, so “EGCG” also finds “epigallocatechin.”

34 studies match for “"tea ceremony"”

2022Journal articleFree to read

Japanese Tea Ceremony in the Industry of Health and Wellness Tourism

Joyce Say — International Journal of Current Science Research and Review

Japanese tea function is known to be a conventional practice that includes the custom arrangement and show of matcha powdered (green tea), within the coffee bar. Tea function is one of the significant customary and contemporary societies…

Other / not statedMarket, culture and sustainabilityMetabolism and weightCardiovascular and blood pressure
n.d.Journal articleFree to read

Contemporary Japanese Tea Ceremony and its Collective Creativity: Multiple Tea-worlds of Kanazawa City as Venues of Cultural Production

Ito, Kozue, 梢 伊藤 — Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)

… comment and disrespectful to tea practitioners, because, to put it simply, a tea ceremony (chakai) is a systematic procedure of serving and drinking whipped matcha tea.My prior question arose from their argument and criticism on their …

Sensory / consumerMarket, culture and sustainabilityAroma, flavor and sensory
2026Journal articleFree to read

Yerba mate i matcha – ziołowe napary jako trendy w zdrowym stylu życia: badania naukowe, tradycje kulturowe i praktyki kulinarne

Joanna Gil, Ewa Godos — Medycyna Nowożytna

… and hospitality. Matcha, powdered green tea, plays a key role in the Japanese tea ceremony Sado and is also valued for its high content of catechins, especially EGCG, which support cognitive functions, exhibit antioxidant and …

In vitro / cell studyAntioxidants and polyphenolsCancerInflammation and immunity
2019Journal articleFree to read

Food from Nowhere: Complicating Cultural Food Colonialism to Understand Matcha as Superfood

Nick Dreher — Graduate Journal of Food Studies

… eaters abstract | Matcha has served as the focal point of the Japanese tea ceremony, chanoyu, for hundreds of years.More recently, this powdered green tea has arrived on the shores of North America as one of the latest superfood …

Other / not statedAuthenticity and analytical methodsMarket, culture and sustainabilityCognition, mood and stressCited 3×
2025Thesis or dissertation

Le matcha en France : entre héritage, stratégies de marque et circulation des imaginaires du bien-être

Omayma Ben Djemia — INRIA a CCSD electronic archive server

Né au Japon, le matcha s’est progressivement imposé bien au-delà de sa fonction de boisson. Devenu symbole de sérénité, d’esthétique et de bien-être, il incarne aujourd’hui un phénomène culturel à part entière, nourri par la mondialisation…

Other / not statedAuthenticity and analytical methodsMarket, culture and sustainabilityAroma, flavor and sensory
2025Thesis or dissertation

Matcha mania : anatomie d’un nouveau mythe du bien-être. Étude des marques de thé matcha françaises

Léanne Coste — HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Ce mémoire explore le glissement du thé matcha, de tradition millénaire japonaise à boisson tendance réappropriée par les marques occidentales, devenue symbole d’un mode de vie sain. La première partie retrace l’ancrage ancestral du matcha…

Other / not statedMarket, culture and sustainabilitySkin, oral and dental
2013Journal article

Developing a System to Assess the Skills of Japanese Way of Tea by Analysing the Forming Sound

Eriko Aiba, Soutatsu Kanazawa, Tomoko Ota, et al. — Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting

The Japanese way of tea is one of the most traditional activities to treat and serve guests with “ matcha tea” The manner to serve and the procedure for making a bowl of matcha tea are assumed to be the art performance and they are called…

Sensory / consumerMarket, culture and sustainabilityAroma, flavor and sensoryCited 8×
2015Journal articleFree to read

Characteristics of Matcha

Kenji Haraguchi — Journal of Japan Association on Odor Environment

抹茶は中国を起源とし,日本には約800年以上前に伝わった.飲料としてだけでなく,文化としての茶道が確立するなど,日本で独自の発展を遂げた.生産方法においても改良が積み重ねられ,被覆栽培やてん茶機による製造技術が完成した.抹茶の香りの特徴は,被覆栽培によって茶葉中のアミノ酸やカロテノイド含量が高まり,これらが前駆体となって覆い香のジメチルスルフィドやヨノン系の香気成分が生成することである.抹茶は馥郁たる香味を有し,近年は食品加工用素材として需要が国内外で高まってきている.

Other / not statedL-theanine and caffeineCultivation and shadingAroma, flavor and sensoryCited 1×

How this library is built

Every record comes from three open scholarly indexes — PubMed, OpenAlex and Europe PMC — searched for the word “matcha.” Records are merged by DOI and PubMed ID so each study appears once. A paper is kept only if matcha appears in its title, abstract, author keywords or subject terms and the text is about tea or food, which filters out the surname Matcha, software called Matcha, and the Scandinavian verb “matcha” (to match).

Study type and topic tags are assigned automatically from each paper's own title, abstract and subject terms using fixed keyword rules — no guesses, and papers without an abstract are marked as unclassified. Automatic tagging is imperfect, so treat tags as a way to narrow a search, not as a verdict on a paper's quality. A study being listed here is not an endorsement of its findings.

Coverage: this is every indexed paper that names matcha, not every study of green tea or its compounds (those are far more numerous). Papers that mention matcha only in passing are hidden by default. Work that never uses the word “matcha,” and publications outside these indexes, are not included. The library was last rebuilt October 20, 2026.

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