StarWest-Botanicals.com sells herbs and natural products; based in Rancho Cordova, CA
Starwest Botanicals
Starwest Botanicals has been offering natural products in the following categories since 1975: bulk herbs, bulk spices, bulk tea, essential oils
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Bulk Herbs
Purchasing bulk herbs and spices can provide a significant price savings for both commercial and consumer buyers. Because you can buy in quantity, you can keep your business or home well supplied with all of the top-quality bulk herbs, spices, and essential oils, including organic varieties, that you require.
White Tea
If drinking too much caffeine bothers you, white tea is a tempting alternative. White tea undergoes little processing, which means that all of the healthy benefits that come from drinking these teas, such as vitamins, polyphenols and antioxidants, are more potent than you would find in other types of teas. White tea also is a low-caffeine tea available in bulk that is not only good for you but good tasting.
Chai tea
Chai is a very popular form of bulk tea often served sweetened and with lots of milk. Made from aromatic spices like cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and ginger mixed with Assam bulk tea, that hauntingly familiar aroma will please your palate and nose as you linger over your cup.
Organic Spices
Organic Spices in the form of bulk organic herbs are no longer ruinously expensive as they were as little as 500 years ago. The main reason is that organic bulk herbs that in olden days might have been found in only one or two places in the world are now grown virtually all over the world.
That said, you can expect to pay somewhat more for bulk organic herbs, mainly because they such are grown locally by small, independent farmers in relatively small quantities, and thus are less abundant. When you consider the flavor and health benefits of organic bulk herbs however, organic spices are still a bargain.
Essential oils
Essential oils have been used for centuries for many different reasons, ranging from medicinal to supernatural. An example is the use of such oils in incense that is burned during the ceremonies of many religious faiths. There are claims that certain oils used in aromatherapy actually have curative properties, however these have not been proven scientifically. However, there is no harm in using essential oils simply for the sensual pleasure of their scent.
Herbal Extracts
Of all the herbal extracts that are available on the market today, liquid herbal extracts are possibly the easiest to use. Herbal extracts can have medicinal as well as culinary and nutritive properties. When it comes to the latter category, stevia extract, or "sweetleaf" is one of the more handy flavor extracts to have on your kitchen shelves - especially if you are concerned with sugar intake. It is one of the best herbal extracts for use as a sweetener and sugar substitute
Organic Herbs
Certified organic spices and bulk organic herbs are those raised in an ecologically sustainable way, without the kinds of chemical fertilizers or pesticides that can leach into the plant's leaves, roots, stems, flowers or bark, and leave a toxic residue. In addition, farmers who raise organic bulk herbs avoid the potentially destructive practice of monoculture. For instance, large-scale corporate agricultural operations may focus on the cultivation of only one or two products – for example, limiting a particular region to the production of only one or two Chinese herbs, such as a few varieties of ginseng. This practice causes plants to be less resistant to diseases as well as drain the soil of nutrients.
