Gluten free oatmeal is nothing new but oatmeals
boosted with the nutritive power of matcha are are a new edition to the cereal market.
The work of sisters Annette Downing and Susan Downes, Matcha Marketplace is a line of
simply seasoned, not too sweet oatmeals.
Made with gluten-free rolled oats, the
oatmeals are available with or without sugar, each larded with the green tea
known as matcha.
Matcha, grown only in Japan, is a finely milled tea,
the leaves pulverized into a powder after drying. Some health benefits are
ascribed to the flavonoids and catechins (both are antioxidants) in green tea
and Matcha Marketplace, by putting the matcha directly into the oatmeal,
incorporates the entire leaf in each serving.
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Cranberry Walnut Oatmeal
Add a half cup of milk, set the microwave to 80
seconds, stir and your breakfast is ready. Packages are 2.3 ounces, standard in
the instant cereal industry. Six grams of protein and four grams of fiber per
200 calorie serving are great numbers for satiety (you stay full for quite a
while) and the mild benefits of added matcha are a nice touch. |
I sampled the Variety Pack of Apple Cinnamon,
Blueberry Coconut and Cranberry Walnut and the flavors are all incredibly
straight-forward. You taste fruit and nuts and oats and, in each, the subtle,
pleasing bitterness of matcha.
Matcha, a rather bright green color before cooking,
turns pea-soup green when mixed with milk and heated. This is not necessarily a
turn-off but it is a visual cue of one of the bowl’s main ingredients.
Along with a piece of fruit and my requisite cup of
coffee, a bowl of Matcha
Marketplace was a wonderfully warming addition to a chilly winter morning.
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Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal |
For more information and to purchase Matcha
Marketplace, click here.
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