| | Genmaicha - Popcorn Tea - Japan Green Tea with Toasted and Popped Rice |
 | | When you open a bag of Genmaicha there is really a sparse amount of green tea and a lot of toasted rice and popped rice, which looks exactly like popcorn, but smaller. |
 | | I have been avoiding it, only because I know it is made from a really low grade of green tea leaves, called Bancha, and mainly consists of toasted and popped rice. |
 | | My guess is that this is just an inexpensive tea due to the low quality of the green tea leaves, and toasted rice and popped rice is tossed in to mask the bitterness of the low quality green tea leaves. |
| www.davidhayden.com /blog/dave/archive/2005/04/26/991.aspx (631 words) |