ABSTRACTProvided is a caffeine-reduced green tea beverage packed in a container which can be enjoyed either hot orcold, and which has a sweet aroma and rich full-bodiedflavor. The green tea beverage packed in a container has a caffeine concentration of less than 90ppm, and a total sugar concentration (obtained by adding the concentration of nonreducing sugars and the concentration of reducing sugars) that falls within the range of 150ppm to 500ppm aratio of the concentration of nonreducing sugars to the concentration of reducing sugars (non-reducing sugars/reducing sugars) that falls within the range of 2.0 to 13.0 a ratio of ester catechins to sugar concentration (ester catechins/sugars) that falls within the range of 0.9 to 2.2 and a percentage of the concentration of theanine to the concentration of caffeine (theanine/caffeine x 100) of at least 10.0.
