Flavors include azuki bean paste, green tea (matcha), "yuzu", strawberry and chestnut.
Matcha is a fine-ground, powdered, high-quality green tea and not the same as "konacha".
Prior to use, the matcha is often forced through a sieve in order to break up clumps.
Matcha contains more nutritional value than even regular ip-cha, or leaf tea.
Matcha may also be mixed into other forms of tea.
The name indicates its intended eventual milling into matcha.
It consists of three bean paste beads of three flavors, matcha, egg, and red bean paste.
For example, it is added to genmaicha to form what is called "matcha-iri genmaicha" (literally, roasted brown rice and green tea with added matcha).
