Tagged: rooibos extract

Rooibos Extract Starts Fading the Moment It Is Made

The label on a supplement bottle or a jar of face cream says "rooibos extract." Here is what that actually means, how a factory makes it, and the one problem the powder creates for itself the moment it is made.

How Rooibos Is Processed

The Ministry's standing account of how a cut branch becomes tea, from the fermentation heap and the drying yard to grading, the food-safety step every batch clears, the weed that has to be kept out, and the separate path that ends in an extract.