Matcha?

[dryope]

I love matcha tea (I live in Japan). But it makes me sick, and I can't find any fructose info for it, just that it does have some sugars. Strangely, there's a steeped tea that does the same thing to me--a specialty tea, in which whole, young tea plants are harvested each season. Usually, tea plants are cultivated by tea growers for several decades.

Sorry, I didn't mention--I'm really into artisanal teas. The real deal, not herbals. Anyway.

So I think the tea plant has quite a bit of fructose in it. Shouldn't come up for 99% of all teas, since most cause me no problems. Perhaps it's young plants or because matcha is ground-up whole leaves. I can't figure out why the steeped one causes trouble, though.

Anyway, I also react strongly to Swiss chard, so I may be weird. Anyway, just a heads-up in case anyone else wants to try real matcha. Unless someone has had a different experience?

[ukbill]

Swiss Chard is a member of the beet family from which comes sugar beet!

Now if my memory servers me right, (40 years ago agricultural training) the Swiss chard has no large root (as in sugar beet and Beetroot) so it has to store its energy (sugars) somewhere..

At a guess in the stalks, because I cannot take any of the beet or cabbage family's stalks.

But the leaves stripped of any large veins and stalks remover are fine in for me in small quantities.

PS Spinach is from the same family!

[dryope]

Good thinking. I thought of trying them that way after reading posts here, but I don't have the courage. A tiny sneaky dash of flavoring with a miniscule amount of onion powder in a bedtime snack last night messed me up, so anything outright vegetably gives me the willies right now.