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Valley Green Tea offers an extensive range of premium quality loose leaf green teas to be purchased online, including Chinese green teas and Japanese green teas.

It can be challenging to buy green tea online. Some assurance as to the quality and value we offer when you purchase green teas from our online store:

• We sell pure green tea loose leaves. These are of higher quality than blended teas, tea bags or tea powder available on other sites.
• Our teas are latest season teas. Fresh green teas are the best green teas.
• China is the birthplace of all teas and we believe it still has the best teas to offer. We specialize in Chinese green teas but also offer some Japanese green teas.
• We offer a range of organic green teas for those who are interested in organic products. 
• Our premium grade loose leaf green teas are stored under recommended conditions (refrigerated usually) to preserve premium quality. Green teas are highly sensitive to high temperature & quality deteriorates rapidly if stored inadequately. 
• The unique advantage of buying loose leaf green tea online from us than from a shop is that teas are stored under optimal conditions (vacuum sealed and refrigerated) before being delivered directly to the consumers - there is no shelf time for these teas. 

Valley Green Tea offers a wide range of fresh loose leaf, organic and non-organic green teas sourced directly from tea farmers in China for your enjoyment and health. 

What is green tea?

Green tea is the only class of teas that are unfermented. It is also the biggest class of Chinese teas. There are more than 300 varieties in the record and many folk teas have not yet been documented. Fresh green teas are packed with natural antioxidant and well known for their luscious refreshing taste and numerous health benefits. Buying the right green teas to suit your needs can take some experiment and experience, as a cup of tea for one may not be the one for the next. Try a few in small amount and find out which ones you enjoy most.

What are the characteristics of the best green teas?

The best green teas are the fresh teas. Premium green teas are highly sensitive to their environmental conditions. Once they are exposed to unsatisfactory elements, such as high temperature and foreign odors, their quality deteriorates rapidly. 

Valley Green Tea supplies premium quality seasonal green teas sourced directly from growers and plantations in traditional tea producing regions of China. 

We take extra cautions to preserve the quality by:

• packaging - we vacuum seal all our green teas
• storage - we store our green teas under their optimal storage temperature which is under 5^oC
• transportation - we air transport our green teas from China to avoid unnecessary exposure to high temperature and other un-welcomed factors

We believe the quality of the green teas we supply is second to none on the currently market outside of China.

Health benefits reported to be associated with drinking green tea

Many health benefits have been reported in recent years to be associated with drinking green tea, largely attributed to a group of active biochemical compound 'catechins' in the tea leaves. These benefits include:

• lowering blood cholesterol level, blood pressure and the risk of heart diseases
• cancer preventive, including cancers such as breast cancer and bladder cancer
• anti-inflammatory
• reducing blood sugar levels 

For more information, please visit https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ (keyword search)

How does Chinese green tea differ from Japanese green tea?

Chinese green teas are roasted/baked, have a roasted ‘nutty’ hint and use full leaves, selected for differing quality grades. Japanese green teas are mainly steam-softened, then dried. They often have a a ‘raw green’ taste, come in various forms such as powder and paste, use mature as well as broken leaves and may have additional ingredients such as rice bubbles

Chinese green tea

The founder of the business, En Jie, grew up in the tea country of China - the Fu-Jian province. Through her personal connection and net work, we are able to source the top quality premium Chinese green teas directly from the tea farmers. She visits these tea farmers on a regular base to inspect the plantations, exchange opinions/feedbacks and re-enforce the trusting relationships.  

We are proud of the range and quality of the green teas we offer and seek to expend to bring the real green tea experiences to our customers. 

Organic green tea

We understand the concerns of our customers, in aspects of both health and environment. We not only source our products from only responsible and environmental conscious suppliers, we have been actively sourcing additional organic green teas to offer a complete organic experience. 

All our organic green teas are plantation organic certified - we obtain the organic certificates from our suppliers and request for updates on a regular base. We offer a collection of premium organic green teas, such as organic Dragon Well, organic Bi Luo Chun and organic Mao Feng etc.  

Japanese green tea

We also offer a range of Japanese style green teas such as: Sencha, Genmaicha and Matcha. 

For more information about green tea, please visit: green tea information, green tea preparation and storage guide or green tea FAQ.