Metals & Matcha

We’ve almost completed the formulation for our next blend! It’s super exciting. Ahead of this, we thought we would share a little bit more about the matcha that we have been using. Over the past six months, our team has tasted over 75 different matcha samples across all sorts of different suppliers. This is not super unusual, as we do use many different types of matcha across all our brands. Some grades are better in products that have additional ingredients, and some are intended to be used in their purest form.

Here are some things that I bet you didn’t know. Matcha is known for its amazing benefits, but there’s a hidden concern that many people aren’t talking about: heavy metal contamination. Since matcha is made from whole ground tea leaves, anything in the soil—including heavy metals—ends up in your cup.

Heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and arsenic can be found in soil due to pollution, pesticides, and industrial waste. Since tea plants absorb nutrients (and contaminants) directly from the earth, where your matcha is grown makes a huge difference. That’s why we test our matcha for heavy metals to ensure it meets strict safety standards. We want to work with trusted farms and processors that use clean, sustainable soil practices and rigorous testing to keep contaminants in check. But over the years, this has been such a learning curve for us.

Some things that we always look at before we select a brand off the shelf are:

• Testing for heavy metals from a third-party lab
• Grown in regions known for clean soil
• Use organic and pesticide-free farming methods
  (we are just starting to explore Regenerative Organic here)