Dayao Mountain Sweet Tea

Dayao Mountain Sweet Tea

Dayao Mountain Sweet Tea is a protected geographical indication product.

　　Sweet tea is one of the specialties of Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County (Dayao Mountain) in Guangxi. As a natural sweetener and food ingredient, sweet tea has been used among the Yao people for hundreds of years. As early as 1978–1981, the Guangxi Institute of Botany and the PLA 181 Hospital conducted specialized research and scientific testing on the wild sweet tea produced in Jinxiu. The tests revealed that its sweet tea glycoside (sweet tea sugar compound) content is as high as 6–7%. Grown at high altitudes (above 800 meters), Jinxiu sweet tea benefits from an excellent natural environment with no industrial air pollution, making it a natural green food.