MatchaDB

Research

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.”

32 studies match for “Drinking”

2022Journal articleFree to read

Quality, health efficacy and application researches on Matcha

Fanglan Li, Jiangxiong Zhu, WEI Xinlin, et al. — DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)

… more attention from many consumers worldwidely due to its unique flavor. Drinking or eating Matcha has multiple health efficacies. Herein, this paper reviewed the potential effects of Matcha processing methods on Matcha quality, the …

Observational (human)Processing, milling and qualityCognition, mood and stressAroma, flavor and sensory
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

… tea ceremony, tea leaves milled into powder are dissolved in hot water before drinking. In contrast, the sencha tea ceremony uses leaf tea instead of powdered tea. The sencha tea ceremony was introduced to Japan, during Nagasaki's Toojin …

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)

… 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 tea ceremony experiences.Indeed, the manners and procedures to …

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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