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What are the Origin Countries of Tea?
Tea has been consumed for over 5,000 years. History credits legendary Emperor Shen Nung (2696 BC) of China for finding and reporting the pow
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Hula Consulting
- Jun 29
- 4 min
How Can Improper Tea Brewing Practices Affect Your Top Line?
With 95%+ gross margins, it's important to monitor the iced tea program in your establishment. After taking the time to source the best poss
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Hula Consulting
- Apr 10
- 2 min
WHAT'S A SURPRISE YOU DON'T WANT?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates compliance with the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) rule for US facilitie
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Hula Consulting
- Mar 24
- 5 min
What's In My Tea Cup?
All tea comes from the same plant – Camellia sinensis. That's right - white, green, yellow, oolong, black, and puer/dark #tea are all from the same little leaf. Tea starts out as fresh green leaves before being processed into their specific tea type. It is the cultivated and processed leaves of this plant that creates the second most consumed beverage in the world. Bonus points if you just guessed that water is the most consumed. Shoot, yeah! Camellia sinensis is a subtropica
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Hula Consulting
- Feb 16
- 2 min
Stay Clear of the Top 5 Inspection Violations for Your Tea Company
If you're looking to have a squeaky clean report card in 2022, then take note of what food violations were given most in FY 2021.
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Hula Consulting
- Nov 18, 2021
- 4 min
Kombucha 101: Everything You've Been Wanting to Know
Eastern medicine has given us natural cures to treat all sorts of ailments. Chinese medicine has used plants, ferments and longevity elixirs to heal the body for centuries. Kombucha is a type of tea that has been fermented, with loads of health benefit claims like antioxidants, probiotics, vitamins, and gut health protection. What's in there? Kombucha is an ancient longevity beverage, meant to add a few years to your life, sipped all over the world. Kombucha is a healthful fe
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Hula Consulting
- Nov 19, 2020
- 4 min
PUER HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE?
Tea has been grown and consumed by the native people of Yunnan Province of China for at least 1,750 years, according to the written record.
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Hula Consulting
- Jan 22, 2020
- 4 min
What is Terroir and What's it Doing in My Tea?
Today, terroir is used in many food and beverage artisanal industries and each has varying definitions of how they define the term #terroir.
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Hula Consulting
- Aug 25, 2019
- 3 min
Four Key Challenges in the Tea Industry
As the first half of 2019 comes to an end, tea businesses have faced four key challenges that have left them wondering what to do or where to turn. Here are some insights on each. 1. The New Organic Ruling In the 27 December 2018 United States Department of Agriculture’s Federal Registry Vol 83. No 247, major changes were published to the National Organic Program; Amendments to the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances (Crops,Livestock and Handling) – 7 CFR Part
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Hula Consulting
- Jun 19, 2019
- 5 min
Certified Organic Flavors Now Required for Certification
The new ruling on #favors requires the use of organically certified flavors whenever commercially available. Since the #USDA did not post gu
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Hula Consulting
- Apr 1, 2019
- 3 min
Attracting the Millennial Tea Consumer
Millennials, those born in the early 1980s to the early 2000s, are reported to rival the population of baby boomers. Some estimate approximately 80 million Americans are #millennials - about a million more than baby boomers. Currently, there are over 6.2 million millennials, aged 18-34, with annual household incomes over $100,000. While this segment accounts for less than 10 percent of the total 18-34-year-old population, they hold a huge influence over the entire millennial
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Hula Consulting
- Feb 21, 2019
- 4 min
Tea Throughout History
It is generally accepted that the origin of #Tea traces back to the period of 2737BC. It is impossible to say for sure how tea first became known, as legends and stories have developed over the centuries. The most popular story tells of the Emperor of China, Shennong, considered to be the father of Chinese Medicine and agriculture, who would venture out into the forests of China cataloging all he saw. One day while he was boiling water, some say to purify it, a leaf drifted i
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