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Tea of Rooibos – red South African tea, it still name the Elixir of Bushmen. The red bush meets only in Africa, there it is considered a national drink. The bush concerns family bean and grows only in Southern Africa. The exact history of occurrence of tea of Rooibos is unknown, it is connected with set of legends and riddles. On legends of the African tribes, magnanimous gods have presented to people tea of Rooibos as a source of a sound health, long youth and vigorous energy. Instead of leaves on a plant of a needle, a branch very long red color.

Tea of Rooibos tried to cultivate on other continents, but these attempts haven’t brought success. Now all African valley of Saderberg is set by bushes of tea of Rooibos. Plants land from February till March in an open ground and in 18 months it is possible to gather the first crop. On factory bush branches are brought, them crush, spread on a horizontal surface, process of a fermentation which lasts about eight hours begins. Then tea of Rooibos dry in the vacuum car, sort, pasteurize and pack. The crop of tea of Rooibos reaches four thousand tons a year. 25 % of it go for export, from them half to Japan, the rest – to Europe, Australia and the USA.

The drink gets reddish color, has is sweet taste and aroma of hay. Tea of Rooibos became extraordinary popular thanks to the qualities, it invigorates and tones up. The structure of tea of Rooibos doesn’t include caffeine, but thus in it antioxidants contain and it gives forces and energy. Thanks to absence of caffeine, tea of Rooibos can be drunk to children.

Usually tea of Rooibos is on sale flavored, with aromas of vanilla, a lemon, wild strawberry. Make tea of Rooibos in a porcelain teapot: it is necessary to take a little dry Rooibosa and to fill in with its abrupt boiled water. Then it is necessary to put a teapot in a microwave for 5-7 minutes. To make tea it is possible some times. And in difference from the traditional green tea losing the useful properties at long languor, Rooibos it is on the contrary especially useful, than longer it make. Tea of Rooibos contains a considerable quantity a mineral and microcells, therefore is ideal for sportsmen as a drink filling after long trainings shortage of salts and microcells in an organism.

Tea of Rooibos is recommended to be drunk at an allergy, depression, nervous breakdowns. Removes irritability, headaches, normalizes a blood pressure, helps at depression. In tea of Rooibos glucose which gives forces contains. The drink perfectly satisfies thirst.