Yogi Tea
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Yogi Tea is the name of a range of herbal teas manufactured by the Golden Temple Company in Portland, Oregon. The recipes use cardamom seed, cinnamon bark, clove bud, ginger root and black pepper as the basic ingredients, and the packaging informs that the recipes was formulated along the principles of ayurvedic medicine.
History
The Yogi Tea Company was founded in 1984 as an outgrowth of the Golden Temple Vegetarian Restaurants in Portland, Oregon. The restaurant was opened by students of Yogi Bhajan, a Mahan Tantric and master of Kundalini Yoga. After his classes Yogi Bhajan would prepare a blend of tea containing cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, ginger and black pepper which the students dubbed “Yogi tea”. The tea was so popular at Golden Temple Vegetarian Restaurant that they started packaging it.
Over time the company introduced new blends and lines, such as Healing Formula teas in 1991. Also in 1991, the company started making its teas from organic ingredients. The company eventually expanded from herbal teas to include blends of black and green teas, too.
Since 2000, the boxes have featured illustrations by Seva Kaur. The illustrations are based on a devotional poem or prayer found on the inside of the box. The illustrations found on the Chai, Woman's, and Exotic Teas, are done by Latvian artist Anita Kreituse. The boxes use vegetable based inks and dyes, and non-irradiated recycled carton materials.
Product
Image:YogiTeaBox.jpg The company produces over 50 blends of tea. These include 22 blends in their Healing Formulas line, 11 green teas, 9 exotic teas, 5 Women’s Healing Formulas, 3 organic chais, and 2 black teas. All the blends contain organic ingredients, but due to a lack of availability for some organic ingredients not all blends are entirely organic. The blends that are 95% organic have the USDA organic seal. Yogi Botanicals, who has a prohibition on GMOs, organizes the growing and distribution of the organic herbs and spices required for the teas and Quality Assurance International acts as a third party certifier. The tea bags are 100% oxygen bleached and recyclable. The bags are placed in a heat-sealed envelope which is then placed into a cellophane-wrapped box.
