Jūrokucha facts for kids
Jūrokucha is a special blended tea drink from Japan. It is made by mixing many different kinds of teas. Asahi Soft Drinks makes and sells this popular drink. It was first created by Chanson Cosmetics as a dry tea. Then, in March 1993, Chanson and Asahi Soft Drinks teamed up. They started selling Jūrokucha as a ready-to-drink beverage. The way it looked and tasted was updated in February 2007.
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What is Jūrokucha?
The name Jūrokucha means "16 teas" in Japanese. This drink is a mix of sixteen different ingredients. These ingredients come from leaves, grains, and fruits.
What's Inside Jūrokucha?
The sixteen ingredients in Jūrokucha include:
- Job's tears
- Barley
- Black soybeans (kuromame)
- Brown rice
- Habucha
- Mulberry leaves
- Jiaogulan
- Kombu (a type of seaweed)
- Lingzhi mushroom
- Sasa veitchii (a type of bamboo)
- Persimmon
- Sesame
- Mikan peel (from a type of citrus fruit)
- Eucommia
- Black rice
- Perilla leaves
Many of these ingredients contain dietary fiber. This fiber helps your body in different ways. Because of these healthy ingredients, Jūrokucha is known as a "health food" in Japan. You can also find a version of Jūrokucha that does not have caffeine.
How Jūrokucha is Advertised
Jūrokucha is often sold with the slogan "Jūrokucha with your meal." This highlights its healthy benefits. The drink is promoted as helpful for people who want to manage their sugar levels after eating. This is because some ingredients in the tea can help with that. Many famous people have appeared in commercials for Jūrokucha. These include Yūki Amami, Satomi Kobayashi, Izumi Inamori, Koji Uehara, Tomoko Tabata, Norika Fujiwara, and Mikako Ichikawa.
Jūrokucha's Influence
Because Jūrokucha became so popular, other companies started making similar blended tea drinks.
- Kyushu Railway Company created a drink called "Nijūyoncha." This means "twenty-four teas."
- Sangaria has a drink named "Nijūitcha," which means "twenty-one teas."
- Coca-Cola sells a drink called "Sōkenbicha." This drink combines 12 different teas.
- A company in Korea also sells a blended drink made from 17 teas.
See also
In Spanish: Jūrokucha para niños
