From the ancient to the modern world, Klytea offers you the possibility to span over 5000 years of history.
According to the Chinese legend, the Emperor Shen Nung was one day resting under a tree, while his servants were nearby boiling water to quench his thirst. Suddenly a gust of wind blew a few leaves from a neighbouring small tree into the water, giving it a warm reach colour. This tree is still known today as camellia sinensis. When the Emperor took a sip of this "improved" water, he found it to his liking. A new beverage was born.
Originally reserved to an elite only, over the years and different dynasties, tea became a popular beverage and an integral part of the Chinese diet, an everyday life also as an anti-age cosmetic lotion, skin treatment compress….

In other words, the Chinese used tea for just about anything and everything, and rightly so. Modern scientific studies carried out by biologists and laboratories have confirmed that traditional Chinese medicine was right about tea's many properties and virtues.
The tea road was a long one. Tea made its inroad to Europe only at the beginning of the 16th century, thanks to progress in navigation techniques. Two centuries later, during the reign of Sultan Moulay Ismael, tea was introduced from Asia to Africa.
Due to political ups and downs during 19 th Century, British traders cut off Russian markets broke into North Africa where mint tea became a national beverage.
Today, the world consumption of tea is second only to that of water.