Organic Green Tea

Organic green tea is prepared from the tender leave of Camellia-sinensis grown at high altitudes of the mountainous region without fermentation but through the process of evaporation. No any type of inorganic fertilizer, insecticide, pesticides, artificial colours, flavours or odor have been added in the production of organic green tea. Purely natural pesticides and organic manures have been used to control pests.

NASAA certified Green Tea from Mount Agro.
NASAA organic certified Green Tea produced from the Kanchanjangha Tea Estate in the foothills of Mt. Kanchanjangha (third tallest mountain in the world), in the far eastern region of Nepal and marketed by Mount Agro Pvt. Ltd. Nepal is not only one of the world's traditional tea-producing countries; it is a region growing high quality tea with a strong commitment to social and environmental sustainability. This tea has a delicious full flavor, with a mineral earthiness and an aroma of damp leaves and forest flowers.

Nepal is the home of Mt. Everest, and the Himalayas with 8 of 10 highest mountains in the world. Many medicinal herbs found at the foothill of Himalayas are considered to be the purest and best in the world. Tea is not an exception. A drink, a food, an herb, calls it whatever you like, it can cure your illness.

High altitude teas have more flavor than low altitude teas. Green Teas grown in high altitude are regarded as the best Green Teas in the world. Young Tea bushes yield better quality than those of older bushes. Nepali Tea bushes are young and are grown in high altitude. Tea bushes love warm and humid climate with plenty of rainfall.

Tea contains Antioxidant, a chemical substance which helps our body fight with diseases such as cancer. There has not been enough research on Nepalese Himalayan Orthodox Tea, but many believe that Teas grown in High altitude abundant of warm and rainy growing conditions yield better tea quality and Antioxidant values than those grown at lower altitude. Earth's high altitude lands are less polluted than low altitude lands. It is generally believed that if a plant can be grown organically at high altitude it does better.

Shop from our wide selection of NASAA certified organic green teas! Green teas are those which have been completely unoxidized during manufacture, preserving the leaves' naturally green color. Mount Agro is proud to offer one of the largest selections of NASAA certified organic loose leaf teas on the internet! Like all of our products, our organic green teas are packaged in our earth-friendly packaging, so you can breathe easy about the environmental impact of your purchase.

Green tea

is best known for its health benefits and tastes and is widely becoming popular amongst drinks. Organic green tea not only tastes good but also includes some of the great health benefits including weight loss assistance, reducing cancer risks and adds antioxidants to your diet.

You can find various types of green tea that are easily available in the market. Some of the different types of green teas are sencha green tea, kabusecha green tea and Japanese green tea. So if, you are new to the green tea world, you definitely need to know about some of the different types of teas and its wonderful flavors that taste really great.

One of the most popular types of organic green tea is sencha green tea that is categorized one of the best as it is very economical and offers the most recognizable taste of all green teas. Coming towards the kabusecha, it is one of the most demanding green teas today and is one of the favorite teas of customers throughout the world. This tea has a signature scent that is a grassy aroma associated with the best green tea whereas a Japanese green tea is a green tea that is deep steamed and has a thicker, bolder flavor compared to the lighter green teas.

The best part of this tea that makes it so special amongst its customers is that it contains polyphenols which are very beneficial to improve health, particularly catechins. You will be surprised to know that green tea has lot of other benefits too and can reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancer as well.

Clinical studies have found that green tea also contains carotenoids, tocopherols, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), minerals such as chromium, manganese, selenium or zinc, and certain phytochemical compounds. Even a short consumption of commercial green tea can reduce systolic and diastolic Blood Pressure, fasting total cholesterol, body fat and body weight.

Well, for most of the people it's about the matter of taste, but green tea will assure you the best taste with wonderful health benefits, so in the matter of taste, if you are more of a choosy person, then you can try different types of green teas and select your favorite ones. The fact of this tea not only lies in its health benefits but when taken as a drink it will truly help you get relaxed and at the same time it will help in refreshing your mind and body.

Tea Extracts Help Treat Damaged Skin In Cancer Patients

Tea extracts work as an effective treatment for patients who suffer from damaged skin following radiation treatment for cancer. Researchers show that this might partly be due to the anti-inflammatory properties of tea.

In a study published in the open access journal BMC Medicine, researchers show that tea acts at the cellular level, by inhibiting inflammatory pathways, to reduce inflammation. They also show that tea extracts reduce the duration of radiation-induced skin damage by up to 10 days in patients who received radiation treatment.

Frank Pajonk, from the University of California in Los Angeles, USA, and colleagues from the University of Freiburg, Germany, studied the effects of green tea and black tea extracts on patients who had been treated with radiotherapy, which can damage the skin. The authors then analysed the effects of the same tea extracts on human and mouse white blood cells in culture.

Pajonk et al. find that tea extracts reduce the duration of skin toxicity following radiotherapy by 5 to 10 days. Green tea extracts are more effective than black tea extracts in some patients. Pajonk et al. also show that tea extracts reduce the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as IL.1beta, IL-6, IL-8, TNFalpha and PGE2, in human white blood cells in culture, with green tea having higher anti-inflammatory properties than black tea. Both black tea and green tea inhibit one major inflammatory pathway in mouse white blood cells.

Pajonk et al. add that tea's high content of polyphenols is likely to be responsible for its high anti-inflammatory activity, but that other pathways are probably involved in its clinical effectiveness. 


New Evidence That Green Tea May Help Fight Glaucoma and Other Eye Diseases

Scientists have confirmed that the healthful substances found in green tea -- renowned for their powerful antioxidant and disease-fighting properties -- do penetrate into tissues of the eye. Their new report, the first documenting how the lens, retina, and other eye tissues absorb these substances, raises the possibility that green tea may protect against glaucoma and other common eye diseases.

It appears in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Chi Pui Pang and colleagues point out that so-called green tea "catechins" have been among a number of antioxidants thought capable of protecting the eye. Those include vitamin C, vitamin E, lutein, and zeaxanthin. Until now, however, nobody knew if the catechins in green tea actually passed from the stomach and gastrointestinal tract into the tissues of the eye.

Pang and his colleagues resolved that uncertainty in experiments with laboratory rats that drank green tea. Analysis of eye tissues showed beyond a doubt that eye structures absorbed significant amounts of individual catechins. The retina, for example, absorbed the highest levels of gallocatechin, while the aqueous humor tended to absorb epigallocatechin. The effects of green tea catechins in reducing harmful oxidative stress in the eye lasted for up to 20 hours. "Our results indicate that green tea consumption could benefit the eye against oxidative stress," the report concludes.

Cup Of Green Tea To Keep The Bacteria Away

Beneficial effects of green tea have been known for millenia, particularly in Asian cultures. An ancient Chinese proverb says: "Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one". A cup of green tea contains up to 200 mg of catechins, whose biological activity has been mainly attributed to its antioxidant activity. Efficiency of green tea extract in oral hygiene has been known for centuries and this gave researchers a clue that antibacterial activity might be involved.

Now researchers from the National institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana, Slovenia discovered that the main ingredients of green tea are able to perform other tricks. They found out that green tea catechins inhibit essential bacterial enzyme DNA gyrase, which is the target of several existing clinically used drugs. By the use of NMR spectroscopy, researchers from Slovenia have now pinpointed the ATP-binding site of DNA gyrase as target of EGCG, the most abundant catechin from the green tea extract. Up to now several compounds targeted against the ATP-binding site of bacteria gyrase have been known but couldn't be used as drugs due to their side effects on mammalian cells.

Lead researcher Roman Jerala, the head of the Laboratory of Biotechnology at NIC explains: "We can anticipate to avoid the problem of toxicity using the compounds based on the green tea catechins, which have centuries of established safety record in the human diet."

This finding may be used to develop even more potent antibacterial compounds. Results were recently published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Green tea may help reduce inflammation associated with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, the two types of IBD. If green tea proves to be helpful for preventing colon cancer, this would be an added benefit for those with IBD because they are at risk for colon cancer.

Diabetes

Green tea has been used traditionally to control blood sugar in the body. Animal studies suggest that green tea may help prevent the development of type 1 diabetes and slow the progression once it has developed. People with type 1 diabetes produce little or no insulin, a hormone that converts glucose (sugar), starches, and other foods into energy needed for daily life. Green tea may help regulate glucose in the body.

A few small clinical studies have found that daily supplementation of the diet with green tea extract powder lowered the hemoglobin A1c level in individuals with borderline diabetes.

Liver disease

Population-based clinical studies have shown that men who drink more than 10 cups of green tea per day are less likely to develop disorders of the liver. Green tea also seems to protect the liver from the damaging effects of toxic substances such as alcohol. Animal studies have shown that green tea helps protect against the development of liver tumors in mice.

Results from several animal and human studies suggest that one of the polyphenols present in green tea, known as catechin, may help treat viral hepatitis (inflammation of the liver from a virus). In these studies, catechin was isolated from green tea and used in very high concentrations. It is not clear whether green tea (which contains a lower concentration of catechins) confers these same benefits to people with hepatitis.