Imagine the essence of the tea garden in a dropper bottle: that is green tea extract 50ml from Botanicals for Life. Camellia sinensis, the same leaf behind every cup of sencha and gunpowder tea, is concentrated here into a liquid extract you can measure into water in seconds.

Green tea’s story begins in China thousands of years ago, travels through Japanese tea ceremony, and now fills cups on every continent. Unlike black tea, the leaves are unfermented, picked and quickly steamed or pan-fired, which preserves the fresh, grassy character and the leaf’s naturally occurring catechin compounds.

Why a tincture instead of a teapot

Plenty of us love green tea yet never find the time for proper brewing, and hot cups are a hard sell through a Maltese summer. A liquid extract skips the kettle entirely. Drops go into cold water, juice or a smoothie, and the leaf comes with you wherever the day goes.

• Concentrated extract of green tea leaf
• Naturally contains the leaf’s characteristic catechins
• 50ml dark glass bottle with pipette
• No brewing, steeping or straining
• Ideal for cold drinks in warm weather

Serving suggestions

Follow the label for the number of drops and how often to take them. The flavour is brisk and pleasantly astringent, very recognisably tea. Try it in chilled water with a slice of lemon, or stirred into apple juice for something softer. A quick shake before use keeps the extract even.

Green tea extract 50ml and the single-herb philosophy

The Botanicals for Life range comes from the experienced British team behind Optima Health, and every bottle follows the same rule: one plant, clearly named, nothing hiding in the small print. For a leaf as well studied and well loved as green tea, that transparency is exactly what you want.

It also makes comparing herbs easy. When each tincture holds a single plant, you can rotate through the range and learn how each one actually tastes and behaves, rather than guessing at a blend.

Building it into your routine

Morning is the natural home for green tea in most households, and the tincture keeps that rhythm: a glass of cool water, a measured squeeze of the pipette, done. On busy days the bottle rides along in a bag, and at around ten centimetres tall it takes up almost no space.

Tea drinkers browsing our shelves usually find more to love nearby. From matcha-style powders to other leaf and root tinctures, our wider supplements selection is worth a slow scroll, and the Botanicals for Life family alone covers everything from ginger to hawthorn.

Getting your bottle in Malta

Order your green tea extract 50ml online and Sattva Health Shop will send it anywhere in Malta or Gozo, free of delivery charges once your order passes the €40 mark. Each glass bottle is padded and packed by hand at our base.

For the tea lover who wants the leaf without the teapot, or the curious newcomer who has heard about green tea all their life, green tea extract 50ml is a neat, modern doorway into a very old pleasure. One bottle by the kettle, and the garden is never far away.

Green tea’s story is mostly a story of what stays in the leaf. Unlike black tea, the leaves are unfermented, which preserves the polyphenols – catechins, most famously EGCG – that have made this plant the most studied leaf in the world. A concentrated tincture captures those compounds in droppable form, without the caffeine load of drinking cup after cup.

Botanicals for Life prepares its green tea extract 50ml alcohol-free from quality leaf, with the ratio stated plainly on the label in the range’s characteristically honest style. Take the recommended drops in water or juice – morning suits most people, given the leaf’s gentle natural caffeine content. The 50ml bottle covers weeks of daily use and belongs in the Energy & Vitality corner of the range beside Siberian ginseng. Tea lovers need not choose: many keep the tincture for travel and busy mornings, and the teapot for the slow afternoons that deserve it.