FAQ

1. Is it safe to EAT Green Tea?
There are some legitimate reasons to be concerned about eating green tea. While many teas are suitable for brewing and drinking, most teas are not suitable for direct consumption. The majority of teas are not organic, so they carry residual pesticides, herbicides, and remnants from unhealthy fertilizers.When choosing a tea for direct consumption, it is important that it be organic to insure that it has not been exposed directly to toxic elements by the farmer. However, just buying organic tea is not enough. Why? Here’s just a few reasons:

Soil and water may have been polluted decades ago and still be passing toxicity onto the tea plants.
Many of the world’s teas come from areas negatively impacted by industrial pollution by way of acid rain, noxious gases, and polluted rainwater runoff. The tea plants absorb these toxins and pass them through to their leaves. However, most tea is still safe to drink because many of these toxins are not water-soluble so the toxic elements are not transferred over to your brewed tea.
Many facilities continue to use processing tools that contain lead.

So if you’re going to buy tea for direct consumption, be sure to ask the supplier if they’ve tested their tea for levels of mercury, cadmium, lead, and arsenic. Most companies choose not to test their teas because it is a very expensive process. EatGreenTea.com tested samples from all over the world to ensure that we are carrying the healthiest, most pure form of whole leaf green tea available. Eat your green tea with peace of mind.

2. Why do you only carry a single product?
Our mission is to provide you with the world’s most pure green tea leaves so that you can safely enjoy the benefits of eating whole green tea leaves. We spent over a year, and many thousands of dollars to find organic green tea leaves with the highest levels of antioxidants and lowest levels of toxins anywhere. We are excited to have found the absolute purest green tea leaves available. That is the product we are proud to present to you.

3. Why is it so important that green tea be in whole leaf form?
The more damage that has been done to a fruit, vegetable, or other plant matter, the more its nutrients have degraded. When you cut open an apple, it begins to oxidize immediately as is visually evidenced by the browning that takes place. The same is true with green tea. When you buy tea that is mostly powder, you are getting tea that was damaged weeks or months ago and has been losing its nutritional potency ever since. Buying tea that has been preserved in its whole leaf state ensures that you are getting more of the vitamins, and antioxidants that Mother Nature intended.

4. I’ve never bought EDIBLE green tea before. Is your product expensive?
Actually our product is about 30% to 40% cheaper than it normally would be because we’re buying directly from the tea farm and selling directly to you. No middle men, no sales reps, no distributors marking up the product along the way. You can certainly find less expensive tea, but not at this level of quality. 100% organic, lab-tested to ensure purity, and the highest grade tea leaves available.

5. What is the difference between green tea, black tea, and oolong tea?:
All these types of teas come from the exact same plant: Camelia Sinesis. What makes them different is how they are processed. Tea leaves will begin to oxidize soon after they are picked. If this oxidization process is allowed to continue, then the leaves will turn a darker color as their chlorophyll breaks down and tannins are released. This results in the black tea that most people are accustomed to drinking. To make green tea, the oxidization process is halted almost immediately after picking by exposing the leaves to a heat process. Oolong tea is about halfway between green tea and black tea. It was allowed to partially oxidize before being exposed to a heat treatment to stop the oxidization.