JAPANESE GREEN TEA CO.Gyokuro Japanese Green Tea Loose Leaf 0.3 Oz (10g) – Yabukita Natural and Vegan High Caffeine Loose Leaf Tea – Antioxidant-Rich Green Tea Loose Leaf

First, it's important to make sure you're aware this is LOOSE tea. If you don't have a way to steep this in a tea cage or basket, be prepared to fish or strain it out manually. You can absolutely reuse green tea leaves a couple of times with a weaker taste each time but it's still great.The longer you let it steep, the stronger the taste. I enjoyed it and did not have any reactions to consuming this product.

Firstly, it's a single packet of loose green tea instead of the 3 that they show in the main picture. I got three 8 oz cups out of it.I followed the instructions on the page to steep the tea in hot water for a minute. Even while boiling, there was an unpleasant smell, similar to that of boiling spinach. I am not a big fan of such smell and it was a huge turnoff to want to try and drink this thing.After straining it, I had a sip of the tea and it wasn't as bad as the smell but it wasn't that appealing either for me to continue drinking it. Unfortunately I had to throw the rest of it away.I do drink green teas without any sugar or honey, but those are usually the ones you get in single use sachets. Those don't smell or taste this bad. If you're OK with such smells and want to try it further, maybe this gives the benefits it claims.

I think I'm actually being generous with two stars because of all of the things wrong with this product. Taste-wise, it was good, a bit different from the generic green tea bags I buy from Whole Foods.But the product page shows three packages, when really you only get one tiny envelope. It's so small that when it arrived with other things I'd ordered, I almost threw it away. It's like getting one tea bag in the mail. Granted, it's loose leaf, so you can get about 3-5 cups from this depending on how strong you like your tea.But the instructions on the package are sorely lacking. It just says to steep for "30 seconds to 1 minute" in 8oz of water. But they don't say how much tea. And if you look at the product page here, it says 2 tsp tea in 8oz of water for 2-3 minutes. So which is it?It's my fault for not reading the size more carefully, but I really feel like they mislead customers with the picture of three bags. And it's one a teeny tiny silver bag with no way to re-seal it. Sure, I can put it in a container, but it's such a small amount that I've just stuck it in a snack-size ziploc bag. Anything else is just a waste of space. My guess is they're selling this as a sampler for a larger product, but given how poorly this was executed, I don't have a lot of faith in any of their other products.

This green tea did not have much flavor in my opinion. It tasted just like any other generic green tea, subtle hints of grassiness. Even when I added twice the amount of leaves as recommended and steeped for a longer period of time, I could not discern any special qualities. The tea does brew to a beautiful chartreuse shade of green. This is not a whole leaf tea, it’s mostly fragments of tea leaves and quite powdery, but it at least did not have loose stems in the mix.This may be good for those who first start drinking tea and are not use to a good strong cup of tea. I didn’t feel like it had any more caffeine than any other green teas as I drank this after dinner and it did not keep me up and prevent me from getting a good night’s sleep. I only received one Mylar pouch (3”x4.25”) in my order (not the 3 that are pictured on the web page); I was only able to brew 4 cups of full strength tea from this one pouch.Due to the size and flavor of the tea, I gave it three stars. This product will be most useful for those that travel and don't have access to their everyday tea. It transports well and has enough tea leaves for a couple of days.Thank you for reading this review. I hope you found it helpful.

As others have stated, this only comes with one bag of loose-leaf tea which is very misleading from all the product pictures. I tried brewing it a few times and got maybe two good cups out of it, one hot and one cold brewed. I will say, the temperature it says on the bag is way too hot as I could taste a bit of the burnt taste of the tea. The whole point of this higher quality tea is you get leafy tones and not the bitter taste you get with cheaper quality tea. I would brew this at 140 F at most like other green teas or even cooler.