MAEDA-EN Maeda Sen Cha Green Tea, 5.3 OZ

This has always been one of my favorite sencha's and I've tried a lot. And it's not expensive.

This green tea actually offers all the benefits of drinking green tea that you see promoted online everywhere. I hate to break it to some folks but your nylon tea bags with broken leaves aren’t what you want if you’re looking to benefit from the weight loss properties found in green tea. But this tea? It’s nice whole leaves and that brew perfectly with little bitterness. Pro tip: don’t let your water come to a full boil, pull it right before and that’s when you should steep the leaves for no more than 4 minutes. Lovely taste, color, and quality. Would buy again 10/10

Good quality but included more stems than other manufacturers.

This is very good tea and especially for the price point you get a lot.

Make sure to make it strong.

Not tasty at all. Comes out as harsh yellow with minimum to zero flavor. So disappointed.

It was a bit strong for me but I can fix that.

Lots of stems. I pick them out before washing the tea leaves and brewing, which yields a decent cup of tea. The problem is that the stems weigh more than the leaves so one thinks they're getting 5.3 oz of sencha, but in reality there's a decent portion of weight made up by stems instead of sencha tea leaves. If the vendor corrected this I think it would be a very decent budget sencha. But I don't think I'll order again because there are so many stems. The most I've ever encountered in any sencha -- by a lot.