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First sip, I thought it was too light. I should say up front that I’m not sure I ever instantly liked matcha. The first time I tried it, years and years ago, it took me a minute to figure out I liked it, too. MUZ Tea sent me this one to try.
Then I kept drinking, and somewhere in that first cup it turned into something absolutely scrumptious. That’s still the word I’d use for it. It’s on my Subscribe and Save now, and I’m having it every other day.
Quick Verdict
- Buy it if: you want a mild, milky matcha you can make with a kettle and a spoon
- Skip it if: you want a strong ceremonial matcha, or you need it dairy free
- My favorite feature: it grew on me instead of impressing me, which turned out to last longer
- Would I buy again? I already have
What separates this from a cafe matcha latte
A cafe matcha latte is built on steamed whole milk and a couple of pumps of syrup, and it tastes like it. This is a 20 gram sachet dropped into a small cup of hot water. What comes out is closer to matcha stirred into skim milk than to anything with a foam cap, and the pack puts it at 60 calories a cup.
The front of the pouch says no creamer added, which stopped me for a second on something sold as milk green tea. The ingredient list answers it. Partly skimmed milk powder and oat milk powder are doing the work, so the milkiness comes from actual milk and oats rather than a creamer blend.
MUZ Tea Premium Instant Milk Green Tea Powder Mix, 15 Sachets
Fifteen individually wrapped sachets of Thai instant milk green tea. Add 120 ml of hot water, stir, and you have a mild milky matcha in about a minute.
What is in a sachet and how you make it
- What you get: 15 sachets, individually wrapped, 20 g each
- Calories: 60 per sachet, printed on the pouch
- How to make it: tear one into a cup, add 120 ml of hot water at 80 to 90C, stir
- The milk part: partly skimmed milk powder plus oat milk powder at 21%
- The matcha part: matcha powder at 5%
- The sweet part: coconut blossom sugar at 9%, with maltodextrin and a steviol glycoside
- Where it comes from: Thailand, made by OWEVA Corp
Who this suits and who will find it too mild
Anyone curious about matcha who has been put off by the bitter, grassy version of it. That was me, years ago, and this asks nothing of you before you start. It sits at the soft end of the scale.
It will disappoint anyone after a proper ceremonial bowl or a strong green bite. There’s real matcha in here and you can taste it, but it never takes the wheel. And if what you actually want is something warm with no caffeine in it at all, a lemon balm tea is a different lane entirely.
Making the first cup
One sachet, 120 ml of hot water, and a spoon. It dissolved most of the way on its own and left a few clumps that took roughly a minute of stirring to clear. I had a milk frother sitting right there the whole time and never picked it up, though it would have got me there quicker.
Then the taste, which is where I fell apart on camera. Milky, mildly sweet, and nothing like the grassy hit I associate with matcha. I said I couldn’t describe it and I still can’t do much better. It tastes the way the pack says it should, and it is very, very light.
Four things I noticed in the box
- A pouch that reseals: the outer bag zips shut, so whatever you haven’t used stays sealed instead of going stale in a clip.
- Every sachet wrapped on its own: which makes it properly portable. Throw a few in a bag and all you need is hot water.
- Instructions drawn as pictures: three numbered drawings, cup, kettle, spoon. Most of the text on the pouch isn’t in English and the drawings carry it anyway.
- A halal mark on the sachet: small thing, but it’s printed there if that matters to you.
Why it is still in my cupboard five weeks later
- My sister got into it too, which is the closest thing I have to a second opinion in this house.
- I’m stocking up for winter, because it’s what I want when it’s cold out and coffee is the wrong answer.
- One sachet, one cup, one spoon. Nothing to measure and nothing to wash up afterwards.
- The sweetness is fixed per sachet, so there’s no cup where I’ve accidentally made it too sweet.
What to know before you order
- The flavor is light. If you want a strong, bitter matcha, this isn’t it. My words on camera were that if you want a ton of flavor, that isn’t happening here.
- It isn’t dairy free. There’s partly skimmed milk powder in the ingredients, so it’s out for a dairy allergy or a vegan diet.
- Most of the pouch isn’t in English. The ingredients and the three steps are, and the rest is Thai. The drawings do the job, but you’re not reading the back of this one.
Questions I had before I ordered
Is MUZ Tea instant milk green tea dairy free?
No. It carries partly skimmed milk powder, so anyone with a dairy allergy or eating vegan should pass. The plant milk in the blend doesn’t change that.
How strong is the matcha flavor?
Mild. Matcha powder makes up 5% of the sachet, and it reads as a soft green note underneath the milk rather than a grassy hit. If bitterness is what put you off matcha before, this is about as soft as it gets.
Can you make it iced?
The listing offers it hot or iced, but I only ever made it hot, so I can’t tell you how it behaves poured straight into cold water. The instructions on the sachet are written for hot water, and the usual approach is to dissolve it in a splash of that first.
Does it have caffeine?
Yes. There’s real matcha in it, so treat it as a caffeinated drink rather than something to have last thing at night.
How sweet is it?
Mildly. The sweetness comes from coconut blossom sugar with a little maltodextrin and a steviol glycoside, and it’s fixed per sachet, so you can’t dial it down without watering the cup.
Three other instant matcha mixes to compare
- GREENMAX Matcha Milk Powder Drink Mix is the closest shape here: 16 sachets at the same 20 g, from Taiwan rather than Thailand, and it asks for 150 ml of water so you get a longer cup. Its pack states no artificial colorants.
- Gold Kili Instant Matcha Latte comes 10 to a box and is sold for hot or cold. It leads on a blend of green teas with matcha in it rather than putting matcha out front, so expect the tea to carry more of the flavor.
- Instant Matcha Latte 2 Pack runs 25 g a sachet, 10 per box, two boxes to an order, so it’s a bigger scoop per cup. Its listing leads on quick dissolving, which is the one part that cost me a minute here.
Would I order it again
I already did. It’s a recurring order now, which isn’t something I often set up for a product somebody sent me for free.
If you want a strong matcha, keep looking. If you want something warm and mildly sweet that takes a minute and one spoon, this is doing that job for me.
