About Purple clay

What is Purple clay
Purple Clay can only be found in China, and almost all of that comes from Yixing, Jiangsu Province. A unique mineral resource of China, Purple Clay is deeply hidden in hillside strata. Its mineral compositions include Mica, Kaolin, Quartz and Iron. Scientific researches indicate that purple clay does not contain any elements harmful for human body and is a kind of purely natural soft clay, without environmental pollution.

Application of Purple Clay
Nowadays, Purple Clay is widely used in two main field, one is for tea brewing and the second is for cooking. So it is widely used in tea ware, teapot, tea mug, cooking pot, heating plate, rice cooker, slow cooker, soup pots, etc etc.

Purple clay tea ware( teapot and tea mug) as superior to all other types of teapots for brewing tea. Because the teapot will retains the porous nature after firing, which is excellent at absorbing the flavor and aroma of the tea. After long term use, the teapot will enhances the taste, color and aroma of the tea. Legend has it that if a purple clay teapot has been used for a long time, one can simply pour hot water into the teapot to brew a cup of tea.
Purple Clay cooking tools are widely used in daily cooking now, because of its perfect performance on transferring heat equally, anti-acid and anti-alkali, will not destroy the structure of food’s nutrition and will not have the chemical reaction between food and material of inner pot, so it can preserve the original tastes and nutrition of the food.

Scientific research of Purple Clay
From scientific research, purple clay does not contain lead, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, and other toxic materials which do harm to human healthy, whereas the research proves that purple clay contains SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, MgO, CaO… these minerals are so good for healthy, such as control high blood pressure, limit complications of congestive heart failure,prevent diabetes complications and ease muscle cramps, aches and pains etc.
Purple Clay has also been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to be safe for use, and possess a high standard of quality.