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.”

3 studies match for “immunomodulation”

2022Journal articleFree to read

Prospective Medicinal Plants and Their Phytochemicals Shielding Autoimmune and Cancer Patients Against the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: A Special Focus on Matcha.

Kiriacos CJ, Khedr MR, Tadros M, et al. — Frontiers in oncology

… most of the herbal drugs that showed a triple action concerning anticancer, immunomodulation, and anti-SARS-CoV-2 activities. Special attention was directed towards "matcha" as a novel potential protective and therapeutic agent for …

ReviewAntioxidants and polyphenolsCancerInflammation and immunityCited 10×
2025Journal articleFree to read

The Immunomodulatory Effect of Matcha Green Tea, Wheat Germ Oil and N-acetyl-L-cysteine in Experimentally Induced Trichinosis

Asmaa Yousef, Mona Abd El-Hakeem Mattar, Ashraf Hassanien, et al. — Zagazig University Medical Journal

Background: Trichinosis is a food-borne zoonotic disease resulted from ingestion of pork meat having the infective 1st stage larvae of Trichinella spiralis (T.spiralis).The traditional drugs used for treatment of trichinosis have many…

Animal studyInflammation and immunityGut and microbiome
2024Journal article

Effectiveness of Matcha Tea Extract on Immune Functions of Cyclophosphamide induced- immunosuppression Rats

Amr A. Rizk, Naeem Mohammed Rabeh, Esraa M. Abou Elias — مجلة الاقتصاد المنزلي

Matcha is a type of Japanese green tea (Camellia sinensis) of the Tencha type and rich source antioxidant compounds. The existing study was proposed research the effect of aqueous extract of matcha tea toward Cyclophosphamide (CYP) -…

Animal studyCognition, mood and stressMetabolism and weightAntioxidants and polyphenols

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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