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1. 01 The cup · 27 Jun 2026 Green vs Red Rooibos: What Oxidation Changes Green and red rooibos come from the same bush. One step, oxidation, sets them apart, and it changes the colour, the taste, and how much of the antioxidant aspalathin survives. Here is the difference, plainly.
2. 02 The process · 9 Jun 2026 Rooibos Sweats in Heaps for 10 to 14 Hours Before Sun-Drying How a cut rooibos branch becomes tea: bruised in the cutter, left to sweat in watered heaps for 10 to 14 hours at 34 to 38 degrees Celsius, then dried in the sun.
3. 03 The process · 13 Dec 2025 The Cut That Used to Take All Day Cutting a rooibos harvest into tea once meant an axe and an entire day's work by hand. Here is how that job passed from a worker's own arm, to one family's private farms, to a single government board that owned the only legal cutting operation in the country, and finally, only in the last two decades, to the growers themselves.