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Green Tea

Green tea is tea made from minimally oxidized leaves and is commonly brewed as a hot or cold beverage.

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About Green Tea

Green tea is made from tea leaves heated or otherwise treated soon after harvest to limit enzymatic oxidation, then shaped and dried. It is commonly brewed as a hot or chilled beverage from loose leaves, broken leaves, or tea bags, plain or with other flavouring ingredients.

The infusion can range from pale yellow to green. Flavour may be grassy and vegetal, toasted, floral, or mildly astringent, depending on the style and processing. Powdered green tea has a different drinking texture because it uses ground leaf rather than only an infusion.

Green tea is sold as loose leaf, broken leaf, tea bags, and powdered product. Styles may use steamed or pan-heated leaves and differ in leaf shape, roast character, and brewing requirements; brewing strength and infusion time change the resulting colour, flavour, and body.

Ingredient type
whole food

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Local names for green tea

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English

green tea

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Green Tea nutrition & diet

Green Tea nutritional value

Tea, green, plain, without milk

Per 100 g of the edible portion in the stated food form.

Calories
1kcal
Protein
0.2g
Carbs
0.0g
Fat
0.0g

Reference values apply to the named food form, not every preparation, variety or brand. © Food Standards Australia New Zealand. AFCD Release 3, food F009117. Available carbohydrate excludes sugar alcohols; energy converted from kJ to kcal (÷4.184). Australian data may not be appropriate for use in other countries. There are limitations associated with food composition databases. Food composition data used in the database or databases may represent an average of the nutrient content of a particular sample of foods and ingredients, determined at a particular time. The nutrient composition of foods and ingredients can vary substantially between batches and brands because of a number of factors, including changes in season, processing practices and ingredient source, and methods of calculation. Data licensed under the FSANZ Data User Licence Agreement, based on CC BY-SA 3.0 AU: https://www.foodstandards.gov.au/science-data/monitoringnutrients/afcd/datauserlicenceagreement.

Portions & preparation

Match the reference to brewed green tea made from the leaves, not dry leaves, extract, matcha, or a sweetened bottled beverage. Preparation variables include steeping, dilution, serving temperature, and additions such as milk, sugar, syrups, flavorings, or blended botanicals.

Compare the right form: Match references to brewed green tea infusion from Camellia sinensis leaves; distinguish loose-leaf, bagged, matcha, extract, bottled, and flavored forms.

Diet considerations

Green tea comes from a plant, but the beverage may be blended or flavored with other botanicals. Milk, cream, honey, sugar, syrups, gelatin-based products, or cereal-containing additions change compatibility; bottled and powdered products require label review rather than comparison with plain brewed tea.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Not established
  • Vegetarian
    Not established
  • Pescatarian
    Not established
  • Keto
    Not established
  • Paleo
    Not established
  • Low-carb
    Not established
  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Not established
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Vegetarian · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Pescatarian · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Keto · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Paleo · Not established
The ingredient form and processing have not been assessed against this dietary pattern.
Low-carb · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Halal · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish kosher status.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

Reviewed ingredient entryIngredient reference · Preparations vary

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Sources & review

Nutrition reference: Australian Food Composition Database, Release 3, 2025 — Tea, green, plain, without milk ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

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