Tea Glorious Tea 
Each of these skilled tea pickers can harvest 600 grams of tea a day. The pickers, mostly women, gather a total of 6000 metric tons of organic green teas annually. Their efforts, rain or shine, bring 200,000,000 Yuan to the local and national economy, every year!
Everyday from spring through summer as the late afternoon sun begins to dip towards the west, tea pickers gather high up on the mountain sides to have their daily harvest of ripened leaves weighed and paid for by factory buyers. The freshly picked leaves are immediately sent down to factories just like this one scattered in the valleys below the plantations. Right away, as day turns to night, the careful work of processing the fresh leaves into packaged tea begins and is rigorously supervised and timed at every stage of the operation.
Step One: All Green Tea buds are laid out for quality examination and to initiate the start of the drying process.
Step Two: Technicians hand rub the semi dried buds, lightly frying them in large wok sized, heated cauldrons. A very small measure of natural wax is added to ensure the goodness is sealed into the leaves.
Step Three: Now the crisply succulent, tender leaves, are moved into a hopper sized dryer with a rotating drum for a specific period of time at a carefully controlled temperature for final processing and drying, prior to being packaged.
Though this all seems simple and straight forward the special techniques and precision timing involved in Green Tea production make this least manipulated of teas, one of the most complex, whole food beverages produced.
Green Tea is rich in vitamins C. A. B. & P. as well as oligo elements, poly-phenols and tooth protecting fluoride. It has been found to contain anti inflammatory and anti depressant qualities. Scientific studies found the principal active compound of Green Tea鈥EGC鈥allate Epigalla cotecol to be more effective than vitamin E against FREE REDICALS, the toxic molecules which occur in cellular aging.
