Tea base · Ingredient
Gunpowder green tea
Camellia sinensis
Dark, glossy pellets of rolled green tea that rattle in the tin, said to be named for their likeness to grains of gunpowder. Toasty and green with a wisp of campfire smoke, it is the leaf Moroccan tea-makers pair with mint.
Blend with gunpowder green tea →The benefits
Why we love gunpowder green tea
Pellets that unfurl
Each tightly rolled pellet opens slowly in the pot, so you can watch the leaf come back to life as it steeps.
Made for mint
Its toasty, faintly smoky character is the classic partner for spearmint in a sweet, North African-style mint tea.
L-theanine and caffeine
Like all green tea, gunpowder naturally contains L-theanine and a moderate amount of caffeine.
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Contains caffeine.
Gunpowder tea comes from Zhejiang province in eastern China, where the leaves are rolled into tight pearls that keep well on long journeys. In Chinese it is simply 'pearl tea'; English traders saw grains of gunpowder instead. In Morocco it became the base of atay, brewed with fresh mint and sugar and poured from a height to raise a froth.
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