Many horticultural crops have unexpected properties . The ingredients of laurel , curry , bromeliad and basil aid in the engagement against diabetes . Four agriculturist of these crops have join forces and are working on a tidy and tasty tea , says Charl Goossens from laurel nursery Gova in Nispen . " You learn to look at your craw in a different way . "
How did the quislingism come about?“We are part of the ‘ Plant Content Substances ’ mathematical group of entrepreneur in the Biobased Greenport program . We had a very safe rapport with a number of other growers . We then started to look for portion out value as a basis for further cooperation . And then it turned out that our crops help against diabetes . We have asked a quaternary raiser to join us and we have written a proposition for BioBoost for the development of a healthy tea . ”
Which harvest are involved?“We grow laurel ourselves , Westland Peppers has the curry plants , Corn . Bak has the bromeliads and De Kruidenaer turn the basil . We first did literature enquiry to see if those crop really help against diabetes . That is likely the case . We are now doing practical inquiry with a model organism . The DNA of such an being can be compared to that of a human being . "
Does the afternoon tea become a medicine?“If you call a product a medicine , you will have to deal with complicated law and regulation . The interrogation is , therefore , to what extent we claim medicative impression . We were present at the Dutch Design Week last twelvemonth with a laurel oil and it turn out that consumer and retailers are not necessarily waiting for a call : the story is much more important . ”
What else call for to be investigated?“Quite a lot . For example , the good tea concentration for an anti - diabetes effect , the simmer time of the tea , the good part of the works to use , pre - processing and the best dry out method . Many of those steps we take together with a professor from WUR ( Wageningen University & Research ) and with the research troupe ' t Akker . "
What does the schedule look like?“We Bob Hope to bring the tea to mart by the last of this class . We still have to take many steps to achieve this , for good example : what is the effective fashion to treat the product , and how do you market the intrinsic value of a mathematical product , meaning the ingredients ? For this , we bring together with , among others , the WUR . "
And then onto the marketplace . “An crucial interrogative before that , of course , is : how do you make a tasty tea ? We have engaged a tea expert for this . That is very educational . A Camellia sinensis expert front at your product very differently . For example , he sees a branchlet and says : that is good for the sense of taste . That way of life we never await at our merchandise . That is also the final result of transverse - impregnation with the other grower . "
Source : Greenport West - Holland
