The fruity aromas wafting by way of Vibrant Root’s small kitchen workspace are the efforts of a small group working to make an enormous distinction. The product they’re making is named jun tea, an invention originating within the Himalayan Mountains.
Brooke Lynn Dodson, the proprietor and founding father of Whitefish-based Vibrant Roots, has put nature on the basis of her firm by making use of wellness traditions pertaining to bees, mushrooms, and herbs. Apart from jun tea, the health-minded firm additionally makes chilly pressed juices, sizzling shot energy elixirs, mushroom teas, ginger beer, and hand pressed nut milks.
“These are prime quality merchandise with prime quality components. Every little thing we make takes a lot time and love and power,” stated Dodson.
The corporate’s merchandise are bought in over 100 places throughout 4 states and a couple of% of income go to charity — 1% to saving the bees and the opposite to a special native nonprofit every quarter. Fairly than utilizing conventional juicing strategies, juice is unpasteurized and cold-pressed by three thousand tons of stress in a hydraulic press to be able to protect the vitamins.
“There are a lot of completely different types of pasteurization, however the course of basically sterilizes the product so there is no dangerous micro organism or contaminants that may develop, however it additionally kills the great micro organism,” Dodson defined. “Each single batch goes to range, however we guarantee our high quality by checking the PHs. To make sure that we’re delivering the best high quality product we’ll by no means be a nationwide model. We are going to at all times be small and centralized to our area.”
Aptly known as a “sister elixir” to kombucha, jun tea has a lighter and extra delicate taste profile and their web site calls jun tea the “champagne” of kombucha. The bottom is brewed and fermented with natural components, inexperienced tea, and native uncooked honey, and there are a number of flavors with which Dodson has experimented.
“Generally I make flavors and so they’re fantastic and different instances I’ve these concepts and I believe I’m going to have this excellent taste, however it doesn’t prove. Like I assumed vanilla carrot cake sounded so scrumptious, however it was so unhealthy,” Dodson stated with amusing.
From lavender, thyme, citrus, jasmine, huckleberry, and cardamom, there are over 15 modern jun tea flavors provided. Mushroom tea flavors embody savory collagen broth, golden turmeric latte, and a cacao mix.
“The lion’s mane mushroom helps with focus and readability. The reishi mushroom works as an adaptogen for ache management and ranges your system out. The turmeric is for irritation and the cacao uplifts your temper,” Dodson defined. “With out mushrooms and the mycelium community, not one of the timber or vegetation would exist so our brand is a mushroom as a result of it’s the basis to every little thing we do.”
Vibrant Roots additionally provides workshops for girls to get again to their ancestral roots with motion and yoga. After a latest journey to Indonesia, Dodson has realized the significance of slowing down whereas having fun with foods and drinks and encourages others to do the identical.
“Throughout my journey, I actually tailored a meditative observe of slowing down and being within the second whereas consuming tea,” she stated. “Our tea is superbly and thoughtfully crafted and we should always benefit from the technique of tasting the flavors and permitting the vitamins to be absorbed.”
Dodson stated that many purchasers have testified to the life-altering results of her firm’s merchandise comparable to serving to with indigestion and intestine well being, rushing up recoveries, and even curing most cancers. Dodson herself was identified with most cancers on the age of 24, which is what led to the creation of Vibrant Roots, and believes that the mix of jun tea, mushroom tea, and sizzling pictures healed her.
“We’re getting again to our roots through the use of nature and consuming actual meals. No components and no chemical compounds. That is good uncooked, recent, natural meals,” stated Dodson. “And in that very same sense, we would like folks to nurture their minds to change into extra acutely aware people for the planet, the group, and everybody round you.”
Vibrant Roots is bought at quite a lot of places within the Flathead Valley. For extra info, go to https://vibrantroots.com/
Reporter Summer time Zalesky could also be reached at szalesky@dailyinterlake.com.
Bottles of Natural Chilly-Pressed Juice at Vibrant Roots in Whitefish on Tuesday, March 26. (Casey Kreider/Every day Inter Lake)
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Inside Vibrant Roots in Whitefish on Tuesday, March 26. (Casey Kreider/Every day Inter Lake)
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Luggage of Collagen Mushroom Broth and Golden Mushroom Latte at Vibrant Roots Whitefish on Tuesday, March 26. (Casey Kreider/Every day Inter Lake)
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Bottles of Jun Tea at Vibrant Roots in Whitefish on Tuesday, March 26. (Casey Kreider/Every day Inter Lake)
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A 17-ounce refillable bottle of Natural Chilly-Pressed Juice at Vibrant Roots in Whitefish on Tuesday, March 26. (Casey Kreider/Every day Inter Lake)
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Strawberry Rose flavored Pressed Nut Milk at Vibrant Roots in Whitefish on Tuesday, March 26. (Casey Kreider/Every day Inter Lake)
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