Gunpowder Green Tea

History of the Gunpowder

You have already heard of the Gunpowder haven't you? 

This tea is the most used to make mint tea and organic mint tea! Does that sound familiar? 

Do you know why this tea is called Gunpowder? Simply because its small leaves rolled into a ball look like gunpowder. 

Gunpowder is a green tea from China. Its elaboration respects an ancestral know-how where each step is repeated for hundreds of years. 

Here are the steps of the Thé Gunpowder making process:

- Harvest: Like all teas, Gunpowder comes from the Camellia Sinensis plant. The leaves are traditionally harvested by hand. To make Gunpowder, only the first and second leaves are picked.
- Kneading: to release the aromas, the leaves are energetically kneaded just after harvesting.
- Fixing: to interrupt the natural oxidation of the leaf, it is put under a heat source. This step allows to fix the aromas in the heart of the leaf. It also allows to keep a beautiful green color.
- The rolling: after the fixing, the leaves are rolled, this is what makes the singularity of Gunpowder tea! Then the leaves are definitely dried to be exported to the 4 corners of the world!

The virtues of Gunpowder for health 

Thé Vert Gunpowder is a green tea, so it contains all the virtues of tea! 

As you probably know, green tea is very rich in antioxidants, polyphenols to be exact. These antioxidants are very effective in slowing down the aging of cells. They are even said to have anti-cancer properties.