Marica,

The tea is Sencha Hiki. It is the first pluck or the first harvest of the spring from the Wakayama Province near the oldest and most sacred buddhist temple in Japan, from the Hiki Garden. If you know much about Japanese tea, Gyokuro is the finest grade and Sencha is the next. However, this tea is absolutely the best tasting green tea. It is really cool to see Japanese drink this tea and their eyes light up with joy! It should be heated to 140 degrees and steeped from between one minute to one and a half minutes. The main place to get it is www.specialteas.com and it is a little pricier than most green tea at $37.90 per quarter pound but well worth it. I hope you enjoy it. I would agree the green tea extract gives you an advantage in concentration of polyphenols and other elements such as ECGC. There are 19 total elements identified in green tea with many benefits from each. I just love the taste and Sencha Hiki is the greatest of all tastes.

Ed

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