Origin: Kakegawa, Japan
Ingredients: Green tea, rice.
Genmaicha is a blend of sencha, green tea and toasted brown rice.
The rice, which looks and smells a bit like popcorn, gives the tea a mellow, nutty flavour. The sencha used in J-PORT's genmaicha is of a much higher grade than in the usual genmaicha. The producer Otsuka has won the price for best sencha of Japan several times in their history. Genmaicha has a lower content of caffeine than regular sencha.
