Abstract: There has been a need to provide a green tea beverage packed in a container which exhibits a smooth feeling in the throat and a lingering taste when the beverage is drunk cold, in particular even when time has passed since the container was opened and the beverage temperature has increased and become lukewarm. The present invention provides a green tea beverage packed in a container which exhibits a smooth feeling in the throat and a lingering taste when the beverage is drunk cold, in particular even when time has passed since the container was opened and the beverage temperature has increased and become lukewarm, by adjusting a particle diameter of cumulative 90 mass % (D90) in a tea extracted liquid to 3 ?m to 60 ?m and adjusting a sugar/tartness degree ratio to 0.12 to 0.43.

Abstract: A green tea beverage is packed in a container, which makes it possible to sense a deep aroma passing through the nasal cavity when the beverage is drunk cold, in particular even when time has passed since the container was opened and the beverage temperature has increased and become lukewarm, by adjusting the ratio (SSS/SS) of the concentration of settleable suspended solids (SSS) to the concentration of suspended solids (SS) in the green tea beverage to 0.07 to 0.48 and adjusting the ratio (sucrose/sugars) of the concentration of sucrose to the concentration of sugars, which is the sum of the concentration of monosaccharide and the concentration of disaccharide, to 0.74 to 0.94.