[INQ. NO. 1407C19] Located in Boseong of Jeollanam-do, Korea, the country’s largest area of tea cultivation where about 40% of Korea’s tea is produced, Boseong Green Tea Food specializes in manufacturing traditional foods such as traditional Korean cookies, Korean sauces and pastes using organic green tea and natural ingredients of highest quality.
The company makes these food products in a totally traditional way. It actually ripens the Korean sauces and pastes in large pots as the Korean housewives used to do when they make the home-made Korean sauces and pastes. Thus, visitors to the company can find around 1,000 pots in the 180,000 pyeong-sized yard in an unpolluted natural environment, surrounded by recreation forest, natural fall, national tourist resort and nation’s largest green tea field.
The company also owns a 5,000 pyeong-sized tea cultivation area in Boseong, which is the largest area of Korean tea cultivation. In this region the soil, humidity and temperature differences between day and night are perfect for cultivating tea. The tea plants at the company’s tea field are cultivated in a natural way, without using agricultural chemicals, which results in an organic green tea.
Using the high-quality natural ingredients – rice, sesame, peanuts, green tea and glutinous starch syrup, the Korean company provides various traditional Korean sweets and cookies that are safe to eat and delicious snacks to kids and adults alike. In fact, the traditional Korean cookies called Hangwa is one of themost favorite gifts on traditional holidays such as Seolral (Lunar new years day), Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving day).
The products of Boseong Green Tea Food are green tea Sanja (fried glutinous rice-cake), green tea Yakgwa (deep-fried Korean traditional cookies made with flour, honey, cinnamon and ginger juice) and rice Yeotgangjeong (roasted grain mixed with malt syrup).
The food company also provides natural traditional Korean sauces and pastes, including green tea soy sauce, green tea soybean paste, green tea red pepper paste and fermented soybeans pill and powder using green tea and other quality home-grown ingredients.
It obtained a quality certificate for making Korean traditional food from the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries for traditional Korean cookies and soybean paste in 2004.
The safety of the company’s products was also internationally certified by completing safety test of food for green tea red pepper paste in 2006 and green tea soybean paste in 2007 by the U.S. FDA. The company also acquired HACCP certificate in 2007.
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