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Description:
Specializing in premium Japanese green tea & Asian white tea for health conscious consumers meeting the highest ethical and environmental standards. We import fine fresh tea leaves to maximize health benefits. We also provide detailed preparation instructions and current clinical research on green and white teas. We also sell a variety or filters and artisan tea ware from Asia. | | Certifications & Associations:
| | Above & Beyond:
Our Japanese producer recycles 100% of production process waste. Trash compactors were introduced halving the volume of production waste to enhance reuse and recycling. Our producer has a system to provide guidance to tea growers on conservation issues aimed at implementing environmental policy at the growing stage. Our producer is helping to prevent the production of dioxins generated when packaging materials are incinerated. Tea products packaging has been replaced with PET resin films to avoid creating dioxins upon incineration. By converting tea waste products into animal feed, our producer utilizes resources not used in the production process and promotes environmental conservation and a recycling-friendly livestock industry. In December 2000, it became the first Japanese producer of tea products to acquire ISO 14001 certification for environmental management systems. Conforming to ISO 14001 guidelines provided our producer platform to conduct an environmental protection program on a continuous basis as an integral part of its business activities. All our producer's major tea production facilities acquired certification not only for the development of management systems, but also for using the systems to increase environmental awareness among employees.
| | Did You Know:
Real tea comes from only one plant, the Camellia Sinensis, (herbal teas are not actually teas at all). The tea plant is a shrub native to the mountainous southwest region of China. Tea does not pollinate itself. It spread east and south by human cultivation, not by natural means. The difference between white, green, oolong (semi-fermented) and black (fermented) teas has to do with how the tea leaf is actually processed. The least processed teas are white and in fact early tea drinkers all drank white tea. As processing methods matured Green tea came into existance with the leaves being steamed and rolled in the case of Japan and pan fired and rolled or formed in the case of China. The Chinese later developed half-fermented (oolong tea). In the 1700's the British refined the fermentation process which is the basis of today's black teas. |
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