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Honeybush
Honeybush or Heuningbos
Honeybush or Heuningbos
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Rosopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Cyclopia
Species

C. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Rosopsida Batsch 1788 is a Botanical name for a group of Flowering plants recognized at the rank of class Fabales is an order of Flowering plants It is included in the rosid group of the Eudicots in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II Fabaceae or Leguminosae is a large and economically important family of Flowering plants which is commonly known as the legume family, pea Cyclopia (also cyclocephaly or synophthalmia) is a rare form of Holoprosencephaly and is a Congenital disorder (birth defect characterized by genistoides
C. intermedia
C. sessiliflora
C. subternata

Honeybush (scientific name Cyclopia spp. ; Family: Fabaceae), or 'Heuningbos' in Afrikaans, is commonly used to make an infusion in the same manner as tea. Afrikaans is an Indo-European language, derived from 17th century Dutch and classified as Low Franconian Germanic, mainly spoken in Tea refers to the cured agricultural product of the leaves leaf buds and internodes of Camellia sinensis, which have been prepared and cured for the market It grows only in a small area in the southwest of South Africa in the Langkloof area of the Eastern Cape and shares many similarities with rooibos. The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Langkloof is a 160km long valley in South Africa, lying between Herold a small village north of George, and Humansdorp. The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho. Rooibos (ˈrɔɪbɒs like "roy-boss" Afrikaans for "red bush" scientific name Aspalathus linearis) is a

Honeybush is so named because the flowers smell of honey. The taste of honeybush tea is similar to that of rooibos but a little sweeter.

There are 23 species of honeybush tea found in the wild, of which mainly 4 are used for commercial use. These are Cyclopia intermedia, known as 'berg tee' or mountain tea; C. subternata, known as 'vlei tee' or marshland tea; C. genistoides, known as 'kus tee' or coastal tea; and C. sessiliflora, known as 'Heidelberg tee', named after a town in South Africa, where it grows in the local mountain range.

There are two methods of processing honeybush for use in tea. In the traditional method, the leaves of the bush are harvested, cut and bruised (often with mechanical rollers), and then left in the sun to oxidise. Redox (shorthand for reduction-oxidation reaction describes all Chemical reactions in which atoms have their Oxidation number ( Oxidation state

Honeybush tea leaves
Honeybush tea leaves

The modern, industralised process oxidises the leaves in rotating, heated tanks at temperatures of 70 to 90 degrees Celsius, for two to three days. The leaves are then air dried.

Afterwards, the leaves are sifted and graded according to the application:

Honeybush contains virtually no caffeine (< 0. Caffeine is a bitter white crystalline Xanthine Alkaloid that acts as a Psychoactive Stimulant Drug and a mild Diuretic 01%) and is low in tannin (0. Tannins are Astringent, bitter plant Polyphenols that either bind and Precipitate or shrink Proteins The astringency from the tannins is what 45%). Some of the active compounds present in honeybush include:

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