Eden Foods Green Tea - Sencha Rose w/Rose Hips, 12 Units / 16 bag

A unique, enticing tea made from premium Sencha leaves organically grown in the historic tea area of Uji, Japan, expertly blended with organic Bulgarian rose hips and Moroccan organic rose petals. Refreshing, relaxing and uplifting with delicate floral notes. 41 percent less caffeine than brewed coffee.All true teas stem from the plant Camellia sinensis, an attractive perennial shrub about five feet tall with gentle rounded leaves and tender twigs. Tea becomes green, black, or other varieties depending upon the time of harvest, and the way it is cured and handled. Tea begins to oxidize as soon as it is picked. Chinese and English teas allow oxidation to proceed as they dry, but with Japanese green tea oxidation is skillfully halted by the steaming and rubbing process.Herbal teas are not true teas and do not contain any tea leaves at all. They are infusions that are made from many types of plants or combinations of plants simmered in boiling water. Each herb has various healthful attributes such as plant chemicals known as polyphenols and flavonoids, volatile oils, and antioxidants.EDEN Organic Sencha Rose Green Tea is a delightful combination of both true tea and herbal tea - our premium Sencha Green Tea and the queen of flowers, Roses. Expertly blended resulting in a delicate tasting tea with floral notes and smooth undertones of soothing green tea. The best of both loaded with antioxidant health benefit from green tea's catechins and the volatile oils of roses. 41 percent less caffeine than regular brewed coffee.EDEN Sencha is organically grown on remote, centuries old tea plantations of Uji, Japan by the Nagata family. Unlike most farmers the Nagatas process their first, most prized leaves into Sencha. While most tea farmers spray their plants with chemicals fifteen to twenty times per year, the Nagata family has rejected chemical agriculture completely. They do not use animal manure, chemical fertilizers, herbicides, or pesticides and replenish nutrients in their soil only with vegetable quality compost. The Nagatas are somewhat of a curiosity to the neighboring tea farmers. Their plants are not overly protected and pampered, and are allowed to grow according to their own pattern. Although they harvest slightly less tea than those using the pampered and chemical methods, their tea plants produce tea for twice as long a period of time. Chemically grown plants burn out in about twenty years, but the Nagata plants commonly produce for forty years, and some for as long as one hundred years. The Nagata family has supplied natural food shops around the world with organic sencha and other organic teas since 1974.The hand harvested organic rose hips and organic rose petals in EDEN Organic Sencha Rose Green Tea come from Bulgaria and Morocco, two of the most famous rose cultivating countries in the world, where roses have been grown for centuries for use in perfume, oils, tea, and in cooking. Although there are over 10, 000 different roses, there are o