The Zinus Original Green Tea (2024) is a budget-friendly bed-in-a-box mattress. This 10-inch (25.4 cm) all-foam mattress uses memory foam for its comfort layer and polyfoam for its lower layers.
It's firm, making it best for back or stomach sleepers, while lighter side sleepers or anyone who prefers a plusher mattress may find it's not soft enough. Because of its memory foam comfort layer, it contours close to your body and responds slowly when you move, which might make you feel comfortably cradled or stuck, depending on your preferences.
Our Verdict
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Light Weight
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Average Weight
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Heavy Weight
Well suited to back and stomach sleepers.
Poor edge support performance.
Not ideal for lighter people or side sleepers.
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Light Weight
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Average Weight
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Heavy Weight
Well suited to back and stomach sleepers.
Poor edge support performance.
Not ideal for lighter people or side sleepers.
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Light Weight
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Average Weight
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Heavy Weight
Well suited to back and stomach sleepers.
Poor edge support performance.
Not ideal for lighter people or side sleepers.
The Zinus Original Green Tea (2024) a is moderately durable. It uses good-quality polyfoam for its transition and support layers, which will resist sagging for longer than lower-quality foams. However, the memory foam used for the upper comfort layer is not dense enough to be considered good-quality and may form permanent indentations sooner compared with higher-quality foams.
Well suited to back and stomach sleepers.
Poor edge support performance.
Contains poor quality memory foam, which can cause indentations and sagging.
Not ideal for lighter people or side sleepers.
Well suited to back and stomach sleepers.
Poor edge support performance.
Not ideal for lighter people or side sleepers.
Well suited to back and stomach sleepers.
Poor edge support performance.
Not ideal for lighter people or side sleepers.
The Zinus Original Green Tea (2024) has a subpar cooling performance. If your priority is keeping cool, it's probably not the mattress for you. It dissipates heat slowly, and if you sleep hot, it tends to trap your body heat and make you feel even warmer. This is quite common for all-foam mattresses in general and memory foam mattresses in particular.
Well suited to back and stomach sleepers.
Subpar cooling.
Poor edge support performance.
Not ideal for lighter people or side sleepers.
The Zinus Original Green Tea (2024) has excellent motion isolation. Memory foam shines in this respect, and you won't feel much movement from your partner, except for the initial, brief vibration of bigger movements. You won't feel like every small movement makes you bounce around for seconds afterwards.
Excellent motion dissipation.
Well suited to back and stomach sleepers.
Poor edge support performance.
Not ideal for lighter people or side sleepers.
The Zinus Original Green Tea (2024) isn't very responsive because of its memory foam comfort layer. It's slow to regain its shape after being compressed. This makes it more difficult to change positions as you sleep, and if you tend to toss and turn, that can be uncomfortable. This is a common drawback with memory foam mattresses, and if you like the conforming feel of memory foam and don't move around much as you sleep, you might not mind.
Well suited to back and stomach sleepers.
Poor responsiveness may make you feel stuck.
Poor edge support performance.
Not ideal for lighter people or side sleepers.
Performance Usages
Changelog
- Updated Mar 09, 2026: We converted this review to Our Verdict section to clearly show the suitability of a mattress for your weight and sleeping position.
- Updated Feb 12, 2026: We converted this review to Test Bench 1.1. We've added new tests, including Body Conformity, Support, and Comfort Layers Envelopment, and also added scoring to the Bounciness test. Our usage scores have also changed, with new usages 'Side Sleeping,' 'Back Sleeping,' and 'Stomach Sleeping' replacing the 'Sleeping' verdict. We've also added 'Pressure Relief' and 'Support' performance usages. You can find more details in the full changelog.
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Updated Feb 02, 2026:
We mentioned the Casper Cooling Select in the Responsiveness box for users looking for a mattress that's easier to move around on.
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Updated Jan 30, 2026:
We noted that the Allswell Hybrid is more responsive in the Responsiveness box.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Zinus Original Green Tea (2024) mattress comes in Twin, Full, Queen, and King sizes. There's also the Zinus Cooling Green Tea Memory Foam Mattress, which has a similar design with 'cooling gel-infused' memory foam, according to the manufacturer.
Our unit is a queen-sized 'Original Green Tea' mattress, and other sizes and variants may perform differently. Here's a picture of our unit's label.
If you encounter another variant or have experience with a variant that performs differently, let us know in the comments.
Popular Mattress Comparisons
The Zinus Original Green Tea (2024) is a budget-friendly mattress worth considering if you like the feel of memory foam and never have a problem with sleeping hot. While it's likely to make everyone feel warmer, it has a very contouring feel, so you might like it if you want a mattress that molds around your body without enveloping you. That said, pricier options like the Tempur-Pedic TEMPUR-Adapt and Casper Snow also have a slow-moving, contouring feel. They both offer much better cooling and similar (but not quite as good) motion isolation. If you're not interested in the memory-foam feel, you might also prefer the Purple Mattress, which also offers maximum contouring but is much more cooling and responsive.
If you'd like more to consider, check out our recommendations for the best memory foam mattresses and the best mattresses overall.
The Novaform ComfortGrande Plus is better than the Zinus Original Green Tea 2024. The Novaform is a budget-friendly all-foam mattress with much better cooling. It's also more responsive, so you're less likely to feel stuck in place, and it has even better motion isolation, allowing you to feel your partner's movements less noticeably. The Novaform also offers better edge support, which makes it easier to get in and out of bed. The Zinus is a cheaper option, so you might prefer it for that reason.
The Allswell Hybrid performs better than the Zinus Green Tea 2024 in most ways. The Allswell offers significantly better cooling, has sturdier edges, and offers a more responsive feel. However, if you like the hugging feel of slow-moving memory foam, you might prefer the Zinus, which has lower responsiveness and more contouring upper comfort layers.
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