 The young green tea leaves are picked by hand three time a year at specific stages of growth. This environmentally-protected growing area was established in response to the encroachment of industrial conditions in traditional green tea cultivation centers.
Social Responsibility
Environmental Sustainability
Cortex Scientific strives to ensure our products are environmentally friendly and benefit the local economy. We often work closely with individual growers to optimize their agricultural techniques and to ensure a sustainable supply. Many of our botanicals are grown in “Green” growing areas without the use of pesticides or synthetic fertilizers. The use of natural growing practices not only protects the purity of the material, it also protects the quality of the local environment and improves long-term economic viability.
Cortex Scientific Botanicals partners with a variety of academic institutions. In the photo on the left, experimental plots of Ligusticum wallichii are studied at a university to determine the benefits of various organic fertilizers.
Many of the best-known growing areas for green tea (Camellia sinensis) have been heavily polluted. To ensure the quality of our green tea, Cortex Scientific Botanicals sources our material from an area specially selected for the purity of its air, water, and soil, yielding green tea extracts with extraordinarily low levels of contaminants. In addition, Green growing techniques optimize the health of the plants, resulting in plants that are more biochemically rich.
Many areas in China are highly polluted with industrial chemicals. Even remote areas may be contaminated with pollutants carried by water or wind. Cortex has conducted extensive research on growing areas throughout China for over forty species, searching for pristine, pollution-free growing environments. As a result, we can ensure reliably low levels of heavy metals and agrochemicals.
Cultivation Research
Cortex has surveyed the overall quality of botanicals grown in different regions and under various conditions, to optimize the health of the plants and the levels of key marker constituents.
Optimal Growing Conditions
Chrysanthemum flowers (Dendranthema x grandiflorum) are grown in central and southern China. The quality of flowers from different areas can vary widely. Cortex Scientific Botanicals evaluated flowers from a cross-section of growing areas with respect to agrochemical pollution and marker content. Growing area #4 (see above) was found to be superior in both categories.
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