matcha and Reduced Depression Symptoms

• Matcha Does Not Affect Electroencephalography during Sleep but May Enhance Mental Well-Being: A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial.

  • 2024-08-31
  • RCT
  • Nutrients 16(17)
  • • Yoshitake Baba
    • Takanobu Takihara
    • Noritaka Okamura

  • PubMed: 39275223
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu16172907

  9 Insights on

  • Reduced Depression Symptoms

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Adults

  The Beck Depression Inventory-II scores also tended to decrease (p < 0.1)

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  2.7 g daily (containing 50.3 mg theanine, 301.4 mg catechins, and 71.5 mg caffeine)