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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.

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50 studies match for “"matcha tea"”

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

… 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 “ otemae.” …

Sensory / consumerMarket, culture and sustainabilityAroma, flavor and sensoryCited 8×
2019Thesis or dissertation

Plan de negocios para la producción y comercialización de bebidas naturales frías a base del té de matcha en la ciudad de Quito

Molina Ávila, Ramiro Alexander

The food and beverage industry in Ecuador is one of the most important, as well as the most competitive, due to the variety of products offered by the participants, although these goods mostly have little added value and do not focus on…

Observational (human)Metabolism and weightFood products and applicationsMarket, culture and sustainabilityCited 1×
2020Thesis or dissertation

Čokolády se zvýšeným obsahem zdraví prospěšných látek

Karolína Nováková — Digital Repository (National Repository of Grey Literature)

… of healthy substances. The plant material that was used is barrique wood, matcha tea, red cabbage, turmeric, black pepper, ginger, red wine, hops, rosemary, mushrooms and acai berry. Their antioxidant capacity, their sensory …

Observational (human)Antioxidants and polyphenolsAroma, flavor and sensoryFood products and applications
2025Journal article

Salivary levels of catalase, total antioxidant capacity and interleukin-1β and oral health-related quality of life after matcha and green tea consumption for patients with gingivitis: A randomized clinical trial.

Abdul-Wahab HY, Salah R, Abdulbaqi HR — International journal of dental hygiene

… There was a significant difference between mean TAC before and after matcha tea consumption only. Non-significant reductions in salivary levels of CAT and IL-1β were detected after tea consumption. OHRQOL of participants was …

Randomized controlled trialAntioxidants and polyphenolsSkin, oral and dentalProcessing, milling and qualityCited 6×
2020Thesis or dissertationFree to read

Elaboración de galletas de té matcha como fuente adicional de fibra y de antioxidantes

Juan Pablo Gaona Hernandez — instname:Universidad de los Andes

Nowadays, matcha tea is a high quality ingredient due to its dietary fiber and antioxidant content, which lead to the development of a daily intake product such as cookies. In this case three types of flour were used: oat, almond and chia …

Food science / processingAntioxidants and polyphenolsProcessing, milling and qualityFood products and applications
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×
2021Journal articleFree to read

Natural particles can armor emulsions against lipid oxidation and coalescence.

Schröder A, Laguerre M, Tenon M, et al. — Food chemistry

… oil-in-water emulsions, through either Pickering stabilization (powders of matcha tea, spinach leaves, and spirulina cake), or an increase in viscosity (pineapple fibers). Matcha tea and spinach leaf particle-stabilized emulsions were …

Animal studyMetabolism and weightAntioxidants and polyphenolsProcessing, milling and qualityCited 39×
2021Journal article

Catechins in green tea powder (matcha) are heat-stable scavengers of acrolein, a lipid peroxide-derived reactive carbonyl species.

Sugimoto K, Matsuoka Y, Sakai K, et al. — Food chemistry

… reaction of acrolein with green tea powder (matcha) extract. The addition of matcha tea powder to cake dough significantly suppressed the accumulation of RCS during cake baking. The mono-acrolein conjugates of the four major catechins …

Other / not statedMetabolism and weightAntioxidants and polyphenolsProcessing, milling and qualityCited 49×
2022Journal articleFree to read

Effect of matcha consumption on gut microbiota in healthy Japanese individuals: study protocol for a double-blind crossover interventional study.

Takegami M, Hamaguchi M, Miyoshi T, et al. — Journal of clinical biochemistry and nutrition

… of two types of matcha. Methods: Healthy adults will consume two types of matcha tea for four weeks, and differences in the intestinal microflora before and after drinking will be compared. Gut microbiota will be identified using …

Randomized controlled trialGut and microbiomeMarket, culture and sustainabilityCited 1×
2025Journal article

Matcha Green Tea on Cognitive Functions: A Systematic Review and Meta Analysis (P8-3.015)

Anderson Silva Corin, Gabriel da Silva Semione, Isabela Zampirolli Leal, et al. — Neurology

… review and comparative meta-analysis aims to evaluate the effects of matcha tea (green tea) consumption on cognitive function, assessing both immediate cognitive improvements and long-term cognitive benefits.

Systematic review / meta-analysisCognition, mood and stressMarket, culture and sustainability
2025Journal article

Development and characterization of bio-based composite films with matcha powder: Impact of matcha concentration and glutaraldehyde crosslinking on properties

Ayşe Nur Zambak, Sema Samatya Yılmaz, Bedriye Uçpinar, et al. — Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials

… blended with glycerol as a plasticizer to produce a biodegradable film matrix. Matcha tea (MT) powder was then incorporated into this matrix at varying concentrations (1%, 2%, 5%, 10 wt%) as a natural antioxidant and antimicrobial agent. …

Other / not statedAntioxidants and polyphenolsInflammation and immunityProcessing, milling and quality
2026Thesis or dissertationFree to read

Development of a technology for a curd dessert with matcha and freeze-dried berries.

Čekauskaitė, Gerda, — Institutional Repository of Klaipeda State University of Applied Sciences

… showed that freeze-dried raspberries had the best sensory compatibility with matcha tea flavour. They provided the product with balanced acidity, a distinctive aroma, and the highest sensory acceptability score. The results of the …

Sensory / consumerAroma, flavor and sensoryFood products and applicationsProcessing, milling and quality
2018Journal articleFree to read

Acceptance of the tea books of the Ming-Qing dynasties in the sencha tea books of the Edo dynasty

文郁 李, Wenyu LI — Hiroshima University Institutional Repository

In addition to the matcha tea ceremony, the sencha tea ceremony is another popular Japanese tea ceremony. In the matcha tea ceremony, tea leaves milled into powder are dissolved in hot water before drinking. In contrast, the sencha tea …

Other / not statedMarket, culture and sustainabilityProcessing, milling and quality
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)

… ceremony (chakai) is a systematic procedure of serving and drinking whipped matcha tea.My prior question arose from their argument and criticism on their tea ceremony experiences.Indeed, the manners and procedures to serve and drink …

Sensory / consumerMarket, culture and sustainabilityAroma, flavor and sensory

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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