Tiandeng Kuding Tea

Tiandeng Kuding Tea

　　   Tiandeng Kuding Tea won the International Famous Tea Gold Award in 2000. In 2003, Tiandeng was designated as a “China Kuding Tea Base.” Currently, the county has over 20,000 acres of Kuding tea plantations, producing more than 450 tons of fresh tea annually.

　　   Kuding tea is one of the native tea varieties of Tiandeng. The history of artificially cultivating Kuding tea in Tiandeng spans nearly two hundred years, dating back to the mid-to-late Qing Dynasty.

　　   Kuding tea is a traditional, all-natural health beverage, containing over 200 components such as kuding saponins, amino acids, vitamin C, polyphenols, flavonoids, caffeine, and proteins. Internationally, it is hailed as a “health tea, beauty tea, longevity tea, weight-loss tea, and blood-pressure-lowering tea.” According to *Compendium of Materia Medica*, Kuding tea offers various benefits including quenching thirst, soothing the throat and cough, clearing heat and detoxifying, relieving summer heat and inflammation, improving vision and intelligence, promoting urination and bowel movements, strengthening the lungs and heart, lowering blood pressure and aiding weight loss, inhibiting and preventing cancer, activating blood circulation and anti-aging. It purifies bodily fluids, promotes cellular circulation, provides a fresh environment for human health, improves the body’s ecological balance, strengthens immunity, and fundamentally prevents cellular mutation. When fresh Kuding tea is mashed and applied to the skin, it can help treat itchy skin.

　　   The Kuding tea from Tiandeng is initially bitter then sweet, combining richness with a refreshing taste and leaving a long-lasting aftertaste. Kuding tea can be processed into various health food products such as “teabag Kuding tea, Kuding tea granules, Kuding tea lozenges, and compound Kuding tea.”