My Matcha Betrayed Me

Plus some stories to make you laugh

Jun 28, 2020

Hello everyone!

Is anyone else addicted to coffee? Well, maybe not addicted, but do you feel that without a hit of caffeine in the morning and early afternoon your energy starts to fade?

I do. However, my stomach made its distaste for copious amounts of the strong brew known. So I found some matcha tea to drink during the afternoons.

I’m not sure when I last had an iced matcha latte, but it’s been too long. I’d gotten a mix and it was creamy, delicate, refreshing, AND came with a caffeine boost. A week went by and I enjoyed 2-3 cups a day, happy to have found a healthy alternative to coffee.

Then I ran out of mix and the headaches started. Even with coffee, the headaches persisted.

After a couple of days I restocked my matcha mix. When I drank that first glass the headaches stopped. What was this magic? Had the antioxidants in the tea cured a hitherto unknown medical malady?

Then I glanced at the nutrition label.

Our house has very little sugar. I’d gone from eating less than a teaspoon a day to…a lot more than ten teaspoons.

Of course I’m going to finish my supply, I don’t like to waste food. But I will miss the days when I lived in sugar-buzzed ignorance with my iced matcha latte.