Figure 4.

Effect of matcha ingestion on students during university and pharmacy practice. (a) The STAI test was administered before and on the eighth day of pharmacy practice. (b, left bars) The level of sAAm was measured in participants every morning for three days during routine daily life at the university before intake of matcha as the baseline. (b, middle and right bars) After the ingestion of matcha started, median sAAm of each participant for the last three days at the university and pharmacy practice was used for statistical analysis. The median of (c) sAAe and (d) subjective stress of each participant of the last three days at the university and pharmacy practice are shown. Each bar shows the mean ± SEM (test matcha, n = 19; placebo matcha, n = 20).