SANANBIO Describes Plant-Factory-Grown Sanan Red Tea Product in 2025
A February 2025 company article introduced Sanan Red tea made from tea plants grown under controlled lighting and nutrient conditions in a plant factory.
SANANBIO's Chinese-language news archive published a product introduction on February 17, 2025 for 'Sanan Red' (三安红), a black tea derived from tea plants cultivated in an enclosed plant-factory setting. The announcement presents the product as one application of controlled-environment agriculture to a crop more traditionally associated with outdoor tea gardens.
The company describes growing selected aromatic tea cultivars using a crop-specific light spectrum and nutrient formula. Its account names Jin Guanyin, Jin Mudan, Chun Gui and Shui Xian varieties among the source materials. Rather than presenting tea solely as a proof-of-concept crop, the notice discusses a finished tea product and the combination of conventional tea processing with controlled-environment cultivation.
SANANBIO also makes a comparative claim about certain tea components, stating that amino acids, theaflavins and thearubigins were approximately 1.5 to 2.2 times those of field-grown tea in its comparisons. The source does not supply the full experimental protocol, number of samples, independent laboratory results or economic production figures. These figures should therefore be understood as company-reported product claims, not independently reproduced scientific findings.
The story provides a distinct follow-up to earlier discussions of growing tea inside vertical farms. It demonstrates how SANANBIO publicly positioned tea as a potential value-added plant-factory product in 2025, but does not establish production volume, external market sales, or current availability. Source: SANANBIO Chinese news archive, February 17, 2025.
Original report: SANANBIO Chinese news archive · Source published: 2025-02-17
