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Research

The Global Matcha Research Library

641 papers, trials, theses and preprints that study matcha, gathered from PubMed, OpenAlex and Europe PMC, tagged by study type and topic, and linked back to every source. We keep abstracts and citations; the full text stays with its publisher.

Tip: use "quotes" for an exact phrase, OR between alternatives, and a minus to leave a word out, for example fluoride OR pesticide. Related words are matched too, so “EGCG” also finds “epigallocatechin.”

155 studies match for “Sensory”

n.d.Journal articleFree to read

Contemporary Japanese Tea Ceremony and its Collective Creativity: Multiple Tea-worlds of Kanazawa City as Venues of Cultural Production

Ito, Kozue, 梢 伊藤 — Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)

What surprised me the most during my research on tea practitioners is that they are quite serious about their tea activity.Though it may sound like a naïve comment and disrespectful to tea practitioners, because, to put it simply, a tea…

Sensory / consumerMarket, culture and sustainabilityAroma, flavor and sensory
2025Journal articleFree to read

Honey-Propolis-Enriched Pectin Films for Active Packaging of Soluble Coffee and Matcha Powders.

Pauliuc D, Dranca F, Spinei M, et al. — Gels (Basel, Switzerland)

… that the honey-propolis-enriched pectin films effectively preserved the sensory attributes and physicochemical quality of soluble coffee and matcha powders. Overall, these results highlight the potential of pectin-honey-propolis …

Food science / processingAntioxidants and polyphenolsProcessing, milling and qualityFood products and applications
2026Journal article

A Study on Matcha Latte Consumption Trends as Reflected in Korean News Media

Bae-young Choi — Association for International Tea Culture

… four key dimensions have driven the growth of matcha latte consumption: first, sensory variations in gradation and flavor; second, cognitive expectations regarding health benefits and product quality; third, emotional projection …

Observational (human)L-theanine and caffeineFood products and applicationsMarket, culture and sustainability

How this library is built

Every record comes from three open scholarly indexes — PubMed, OpenAlex and Europe PMC — searched for the word “matcha.” Records are merged by DOI and PubMed ID so each study appears once. A paper is kept only if matcha appears in its title, abstract, author keywords or subject terms and the text is about tea or food, which filters out the surname Matcha, software called Matcha, and the Scandinavian verb “matcha” (to match).

Study type and topic tags are assigned automatically from each paper's own title, abstract and subject terms using fixed keyword rules — no guesses, and papers without an abstract are marked as unclassified. Automatic tagging is imperfect, so treat tags as a way to narrow a search, not as a verdict on a paper's quality. A study being listed here is not an endorsement of its findings.

Coverage: this is every indexed paper that names matcha, not every study of green tea or its compounds (those are far more numerous). Papers that mention matcha only in passing are hidden by default. Work that never uses the word “matcha,” and publications outside these indexes, are not included. The library was last rebuilt October 20, 2026.

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