List Price: $19.99Price: $16.79 You Save: $3.20 (16%)as of 11/21/2009 21:05 EST
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Binding: Health and Beauty
Brand: Kirkland
EAN: 0096619798551
Item Dimensions: 500
Label: Kirkland Signature
Manufacturer: Kirkland Signature
Model: A2AWorld_Green_Tea_Japanese_100_Tea_Bags
MPN: A2AWorld888
Publisher: Kirkland Signature
Studio: Kirkland Signature
Features:- Sencha green tea with matcha blend!
- Nylon filter bag for optimum water flow during brewing!
- The tag has a slot pre-cut in it to fit on the edge of your cup!
- Green Tea is a proven source of antioxidants, which promote eye health and aid the immune system!
- Great Taste - noticeable sweeter than other brands!
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Kirkland Signature Green Tea Matcha Blend, 100% Japanese Tea Leaves, 100 Tea Bags Kirkland Signature Green Tea Matcha Blend Ryokucha. 100% Japanese Tea Leaves.
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I've loved Japanese green tea my whole life and have not found one yet that tastes as good as this one at this price, except for cups of tea served in Japanese restaurants. A couple reviews here mentioned how it compares to gourmet green tea. I don't know what classifies a tea as gourmet, unless it's the price, and I don't know if I've ever had such a tea. But this Kirkland tea is so flavorful that I don't see why it matters whether it is gourmet class or not. It only matters that it tastes great, and it smells wonderful too. Even my spouse, who drank green tea only occasionally (he usually prefers Earl Grey), is thrilled with this tea and now drinks it almost every night. Don't worry about finding a better bargain. It's only 19 cents a bag through Amazon, so what difference does it make if you can get it a few pennies cheaper elsewhere? With such a great flavor, it's a bargain at almost any price.
This tea has a wonderful grassy flavor -- the mark of a good green tea -- that is missing in so many commercial brands, and even many Asian brands you find here (and the tea is actually green, which isn't the case with all "green" teas). Chinese green tea looks and tastes different from Japanese green tea -- less green and less grassy in flavor. The box says there is green tea powder added, which must be part of the reason for the rich flavor. The instructions say to add the excess powder inside the wrapper to your water. Generally, over-steeping green tea leaves it tasting bitter. I don't recommend steeping this one too long, but it doesn't seem to get bitter when I do (any purist will tell you that adding sweetener or lemon to green tea is just not acceptable ;-).
Each teabag is individually wrapped in a plastic pouch. The teabags themselves are nylon, which is stronger than the usual paper and less likely to tear. I admit I am a bit conflicted about buying this tea because I love the flavor, but the environmentalist in me is disappointed the bags and wrappers are not biodegradable. I also wonder if I should be concerned that it's not organic, but I may never find out if it matters.
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I have been buying this green tea for years at Costco and just discovered that it was available on Amazon.
Drinking tea, like drinking coffee, involves lots of personal preferences. For me this particular green tea has taste and flavor that easily beats anything I can find in the supermarket, which is why I have been buying it for years. If you like green tea then this is a very good choice whether you drink it hot, cold, unsweetened, or sweetened with honey (which in hot tea works great to sooth a sore throat or cough from a cold). I drink a cup every day and look forward to it.
Bottom line: This is an economical way to drink something delicious that is good for you.
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i don't belong to Costco so I was happy to find this tea here and be able to purchase it online... it's amazing stuff and fast shipment by the seller.
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Green Tea Ingredient Slows Breast Cancer-Antioxidant in Green Tea May Stop Breast Cancer Growth
Kirkland Signature Green Tea Matcha Blend, 100% Japanese Tea Leaves, 100 Tea Bags by A2AWorld Green Tea
By Jennifer Warner
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
April 7, 2008 -- An antioxidant in green tea may be a powerful weapon against breast cancer.
A new study shows the green tea antioxidant EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate) significantly slowed breast cancer growth in female mice.
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Previous studies have suggested that this antioxidant may protect against breast cancer and other cancers, but this research has been limited, and the mechanism behind these effects isn't clear.
Researchers say the results suggest that green tea's anticancer effects may be largely because of its high content of EGCG, which helps the body's cells from becoming damaged and aging prematurely.
Behind Green Tea's Anticancer Effect
In the study, presented this week at the Experimental Biology 2008 conference, researchers examined the effects of the green tea antioxidant on several indicators of breast cancer growth in laboratory mice.
One group of the female mice was fed a solution of the antioxidant in water for five weeks while the other received regular drinking water. During the second week of the study, researchers injected both groups with breast cancer cells.
At the end of the study, researchers measured tumor size, weight, and density as well as VEGF protein levels associated with tumor growth.
The results showed that treatment with the green tea antioxidant decreased tumor size by 66% and weight by 68% compared with the control group. Mice fed the antioxidant also had significantly lower density of small blood vessels within tumors and VEGF protein levels.
Researcher Jian-Wei Gu, of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, says the green tea antioxidant may work against breast cancer by suppressing blood vessel growth in breast tumors as well as slowing the proliferation and migration of breast cancer cells.
Mechanism for green tea's anti-cancer action revealed
17-May-2005
Related topics: Research, Phytochemicals, plant extracts, Cancer risk reduction
Green tea appears to protect against cancer by affecting a 'promiscuous' protein that pharmaceutical experts are already targeting in their work on anti-cancer drugs, according to new research.
The study, by PhD student Christine Palermo at the University of Rochester Medical Center, reveals a potential new mechanism to explain the tea, and particularly its active compounds' action against cancer.
While many studies suggest that green tea protects people against some forms of cancer, such as breast and liver cancer, exactly how it does so has been difficult to pinpoint.
"It's important to find out the source of green tea's protective effects," said toxicologist Thomas A Gasiewicz, whose work on the harmful effects of dioxin led the Rochester group to explore the protective effects of green tea.
"What is exciting here is that a completely new mechanism has been found that very well could be responsible for its protective effects, and that could help us find a compound that is much more potent."
Palermo, Gasiewicz, and current undergraduate Claire Westlake discovered that a chaperone protein known as HSP90 is involved in conferring green tea's protective effects. Other researchers have shown that many cancer cells have an increase in the level of HSP90 compared to healthy cells, and that when HSP90 is blocked, levels of proteins that make cancer cells grow drop.
Drug makers are currently working on ways to block HSP90, which is known as a promiscuous chaperone protein because it binds to many different cells and receptors in the body. It turns out that those researchers are trying to duplicate what green tea does naturally. Gasiewicz says green tea might modulate HSP-90 in a way that researchers have not seen before.
Gasiewicz and his group have shown how dioxin and other substances like cigarette smoke manipulate a major cancer-causing molecule, the aryl hydrocarbon (AH) receptor, which frequently plays a role in turning on genes that are oftentimes harmful.
Two years ago the team discovered that AH activity is inhibited ... Read More
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I have been drinking tea for the past 20+ years; This tea tastes like crap and too diluted. I agree with the other reviewers that the tea tastes like grass clippings. [...]
I am throwing what I have and switching back to yogi green tea.
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