Organic Olive Leaf

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Botanical name Olea europea ▪

Olive Leaf is one of these herbs medicinal herbs which have been present in the treatment of health problems for so long. Today its benefits are being rediscovered. The benefits of Olive Leaf Cut and Sifted are recently emerging as a most promising and unique medicinal herb with multiple applications.

Origin Tunisia

Harvesting Olive leaves are harvested between November and February. Leaves collected during this period contain the largest concentration in polyhenols and antioxidants.

Taste and aroma Quick and Gentle drying in well studied conditions keep the original color and the maximum concentration of healthy compounds within the dried leaves.

Uses Olive leaves are commonly used in tea infusion, animal feed and for extraction preparation. Olive leaves tea provides a soothing, relaxing, gently mellow herbal brew. The main compound, Oleuropein, is active against bacteria and insect pests, thus protecting the olive tree. This property has also been found to help protect humans too. European researchers discovered that oleuropein was effective at lowering blood pressure as well as increasing blood flow.

Historical uses The Olive Leaf was once considered one of the best natural herbs to be taken during ancient times.

HERBIOTECH AROMA founded in 2011 by Dr. Leith Tlemçani & Mr. Mehdi Elouaer, first Tunisian company specialized in:
• Organic producer and supplier of herbs, spices, and flowers.
• Air-drying and refinement of Herbs.
• Production of Organic Vegetable oils and Essential oils
A trusting and long-term partnership with our supplier is paramount, we contract with our customer on a secure periodic supply of high-quality organic products. We offer our partners the possibility to supervise all the production cycles from the land to the final product with total transparency. By tightly including our customers in our quality assurance system, so we can assure and guaranty that our partner business receives the qualities safe supplies.
By means of modern technologies in farming and industrial processing, our company is continuously aiming to provide the highest quality of herbs and oils to our Industrial customers. The continuous improvement of our products and meeting our business partner needs is our daily target.
We also take care of our employees within a solid social program. We actively participate in the development of rural and inner regions in Tunisia and help the local population in improving their living standards. The crucial factor of our success is our staff and the particular intention paid to further education and motivation for the purpose of continuous improvement which led us to obtain Naturland certification.
Our team is passionate about herbs. In Kairouan, the company is managing the land of 248 ha certified organic since 2012 by Ecocert. The main farming operations of seeds harvesting, sowing, hoeing, weeding and harvesting of fresh herbs are mechanically operated by specialized machinery. For special crops, weeding and some other operations are done manually thanks to our workers, all native of this region, who provide our project with a formidable force.
Cultivation and composting operations are fully integrated into our production process and continually supervised in all the different phases by our engineers according to weekly planning and daily records for full traceability. Our customers are always vividly invited to visit our farm and facility in order to give their appreciation and critics.
Organic Dried Herbs and spices
In 2014, we equipped our plant with one of the most modern computer-controlled drying systems for a total annual working capacity of 5000 tons of organic fresh material. Freshly harvested herbs are rapidly treated in order to preserve the maximum of taste and smell through an efficient gentle drying. Dehydration physical parameters are finely controlled in order to keep the highest content in essential oils and active molecules. Several pre and post drying unit operations like washing, cleaning, threshing, sifting… are also performed within a continuous production line for pre-cleaning and final refinement.
Traceability
A Quality control system is strictly applied, with total traceability (upstream and downstream) through rigorous monitoring of batch numbers, with the ability to track the delivered goods back to the farmer´s field. Traceability starts from the seeding of the raw material and ends with the stored end product.. Procedures and records for all levels of production and processing are established. HACCP plan is tightly controlled by Process Flow charts and risk analysis assessment

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Organic Vegetable oils and Essential oils