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NP Nutra offers a High Quality Ashitaba P.E. 5:1.     Further Ashitaba products are available upon request.
 
This water soluble green super food is used in food and drinks, and more popularly, nutritional supplements. NP Nutra produces a premium grade Ashitaba Extract from fresh GMO free Ashitaba leaves. Ideal for use in nutritional supplements, tinctures, and certain food preparations, including ice cream, yogurts and smoothie mixes.
 
This fine *0 mesh powder provides the healthful benefits of fresh Ashitaba in a very convenient to use form. Now that Ashitaba is becoming more known in the Western countries, other applications will certainly be discovered as soon as tomorrow!
 
Angelica Keiskei Koidzimi, more popularly known by its Japanese name Ashitaba, is a biennial herb that has been used in both Japanese and Chinese traditional medicine for hundreds of years. The name Angelica, which in Latin means angel, was given to the plant due to its so-called godly effect of slowing down the aging process[. The name Ashitaba on the other hand, literally means "Tomorrow\'s Leaf" in Japanese, aptly describing the plant\'s extraordinary ability to regenerate. Plucking a leaf from the plant at dawn often results in the growth of a new sprout the very next day.
 
Ashitaba is classified as a hardy herbaceous biennial that grows best in areas with warm and humid summers yet is able to tolerate frost during the cold season. Endemic to Hachijo Jima, a small volcanic island off the coast of Tokyo, young Ashitaba leaves and stems as well as the plant\'s roots have been an integral part of the diet of the island\'s residents who are known to have one of the longest life expectancies on the planet. These residents have referred to the Ashitaba as the "longevity herb" throughout history.


Containing eleven vitamins, and a total of thirteen minerals in significant levels, Ashitaba is like a treasure trove of important nutrients. Aside from vitamins and minerals, Ashitaba also has large doses of chlorophyll, which helps in the production of blood and in the healing of wounds.

Ashitaba also contains organic germanium which has been discovered to stimulate the production of Interferon, a substance produced by our body that gives protection against certain viruses and bacteria that cause chronic diseases. Germanium also bars harmful hydrogen ions in the blood thereby creating an alkaline PH.

In a research published in Nutraceuticals World in September ***2, Ashitaba a truly impressive green super food, was cited to have out-performed other herbs including green tea in antioxidant potential based on the ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity).