What do a pharmacy and farm have in common? Caring for & nourishing our body’s health! We have collaborated with Sunway Multicare Pharmacy to bring you a curated set of healthy, yummy teas!

As Malaysians, most of us would opt for a delicious-looking dish over a balanced or healthy choice on days when we want to treat ourselves, but that doesn’t mean we have to skip our mineral and vitamin intake. While you enjoy a yummy meal, pair it with a nice drink that’s also good for your health! Vegetable Juices may not sound appealing to everyone, but how about a nice tea? We’re proud to introduce GreenBliss– an easy-to-drink tea series that not only tastes great, but is a wonderful power boost for your immunity and digestion.

Choose from green tea, rooibos tea, or goji berry & lemongrass tea, all infused with our pesticide-free kale. No bitter taste, promise! 

Together with third-party experts, we have explored various recipes to deliver maximum health benefits with an all-natural, limited-ingredient recipe, all while making sure our teas taste great!

Why choose our teas and does it matter? 

The digestive system plays an important role in the body, more than we realize. It affects our immunity, skin, mood, sleep, and heart health. Hence, maintaining a healthy digestive tract is crucial to support overall wellbeing and daily activity. Some ways to improve our digestive health include eating fruits and vegetables, limiting our added sugar intake, and staying hydrated; all of which GreenBliss helps with. 

Get to know the GreenBliss Kale Teas!

• Diett-tea: A special blend of Kale, Green Tea, Bamboo Leaf extract and Stevia, this tranquil tea has an earthy & grassy taste. It helps to improve digestion and stimulate effective toxins removal from the body.
• Ingredients: Green Tea Extract (56.1%), Kale Extract (20%), Inulin, Stevia & Bamboo Leave Extract (2%)
• Alkali-tea: A unique combination of Kale, Rooibos Tea, Inulin, Bamboo leaves, fructose and stevia. This cooling & calming tea boosts digestion for effective toxin removal and nutrient absorption, as well as promotes a good acid-alkali balance.
• Ingredients: Rooibos Tea (37.7%), Kale Extract (24%), Inulin, Bamboo Leave Extract (2%), Fructose & Stevia Powder
• Imuni-tea: An exotic infusion of Kale, Lemongrass, Goji Berry, Galangal, Inulin, Bamboo leaves, stevia and fructose. This sweet yet savoury tea is blended with immunity-boosting herbs that are anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-microbial, and antiseptic. 
• Ingredients: Goji Berry Extract (31.3%), Kale Extract (10%), Lemongrass Extract (10%), Inulin, Galangal Extract, Fructose, Bamboo Leave Extract & Stevia Powder

Have a closer look at our Ingredients & their Health Benefits:

• Kale: Rich in vitamin A, C, K, high in fibre, a good source of prebiotics, antioxidant-rich, anti-inflammatory, promotes nutrient absorption, improves gut microbiome. Read more about it here. 
• Inulin: Prebiotic for a healthy gut microbiome, strengthens intestinal barrier, boosts immune system, improves digestive health
• Bamboo leaves: Antioxidant-rich, anti-microbial, anti-tumour, anti-aging, anti-fatigue, anti-inflammatory, immune-stimulating, detoxes and improves digestion, prevents constipation
• Green Tea: Antioxidant-rich, anti-inflammatory, helps with weight loss, promotes relaxation and keeps stress at bay
• Rooibos Tea: Caffeine-free, low in tannins, antioxidant-rich, anti-inflammatory, improves digestion, liver & kidney function
• Lemongrass: Effective in treating fever, liver disease, stress & influenza, treats hypertension, kidney disease & flu, diabetes prevention
• Goji Berry: High in vitamin B, magnesium, copper and selenium, protects vision
• Galangal: Antioxidant-rich, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, anti-fungal, manages breath, body odour, aches and pains 

Little drink, big benefits! Our teas can be enjoyed both hot or iced, and we encourage drinkers to get creative in making the drinks theirs! Add a splash of milk to our Kale Green Tea to enjoy a matcha latte taste, or slice up some fruit pieces and add them to the rooibos or goji berry kale teas! At 20 sachets per box, these teas are cheaper than most drinks you dabao at the store, are easy to pack and make wherever, and are good for you.

The GreenBliss tea range is available at all 117 Sunway Multicare Pharmacy retail stores, as well as online with us.

Try it today!

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Our goal at Sunway XFarms has always been to increase local food security, shorten food supply chains and provide communities with access to fresh, high-quality food grown close to them. To that end, we are pleased to launch the largest indoor vertical farm in KLCC in order to reach out to the dense urban population there.

Located in Jalan Ampang, we are expanding into Sunway Tower while exploring the unique opportunity of transforming an old office building into a vibrant urban farm in the city center. Our new farm is 38,000 sqft and spans three floors, expecting to produce more than 10 tonnes of food a month. 

The project team has been working full force since the beginning of the project to fully design and customize all our systems, both hardware and software, to meet both commercial and sustainable farm goals.  with automated climate systems going through vigorous R&D to ensure our produce are consistent and of the highest quality for our customers, all whilst minimizing energy, water and yields wastage.

As a country that imports more than 55% of vegetables and is going through challenging times due to the global food shortage, we see that there is no better time to scale up and contribute to food security. As urban farmers, we take pride to know that we are impacting not only our food production levels but population health goals, which we believe will have a positive and lasting impact on future generations.

The produce we grow has always been heavily tailored to customer demand, and will continue to be so with the tower. Our signature premium salad lettuces, Asian greens, kale, fruity vegetables, and microgreens will all be available. The team has been speaking with both potential customers and partners in the area to launch more exciting new varieties in the future. 

With consistent growing cycle and quality, we can avoid price hikes when the weather is unpredictable and reduce the worries of vegetable price fluctuation.

Fighting the rising obesity rate with local produce

Malaysia has the highest prevalence of obesity and heart diseases in the region, and consumers are increasingly becoming more health-conscious and mindful of their diets. 

We want to encourage the local intake of fresh and hearty vegetables with our tasty and nutrient-intact produce thanks to our ability to grow close to consumers. If you’re looking for delicious, easy-to-prep meals at home, our ever-growing recipe page was made just for you! 

Of course, we understand not everyone cooks, and we do have F&B partners such as La Juiceria and Spargoeats who serve delicious, balanced meals for good health. 

Together we not only fight for food security, but we can also achieve a healthier, happier population together. Check out our online vegetable subscription today!

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Led by Sunway Innovation Labs (Sunway iLabs), Sunway XFarms is the first of its kind in the country, and will serve as a skills-building hub for urban farming professionals, tech companies, researchers and young talents to collaborate and to create transformative solutions focusing on food and agritech. This comes as part of its initiative into agritech. 

Sunway FutureX, located in Sunway City Kuala Lumpur, will have three pillars, XFarms which is an indoor and outdoor smart farming area, FutureX Talent which is a research and development centre, and FutureX Campus, a training and collaborative space which includes a cafe. 

“XFarms will focus on the delivery of four key objectives – Nourish, Educate, Empower and Innovate. Bringing together a wide pool of expertise and resources from ecosystem players, Sunway XFarms will aim to create decentralised urban farms to serve local communities, and to address supply chain challenges and distance between farm to fork. We hope to venture and build new innovations, which will contribute to improved long term food security and sustainability in our nation,” said Matt Van Leeuwen, Sunway Group Chief Innovation Officer and Sunway iLabs Director. 

“One of our first partners will be Sunway Property. We aim to nourish our communities with the fresh produce grown at our farms and educate them about sustainable living and urban farming. We hope to sow the seeds of inspiration and ultimately empower homeowners to grow their own food. This will be a model for Sunway Property to replicate throughout their cities in Malaysia, and allows us to scale up quickly,” he added. 

XFarms will also partner with Thought For Food (TFF), a global non-profit organisation dedicated to entrepreneurial innovation for food and agriculture. 

“We are thrilled to be partnering with XFarms to develop urban farming in Malaysia and across the region. We see many exciting opportunities to collaborate with Sunway iLabs to provide a sandbox for startups from our global TFF innovation platform to carry out pilot projects and test out their solutions to fit the local market needs,” said Christine Gould, Thought For Food’s Chief Executive Officer.  

According to reports, Malaysia imports most of its food from countries such as China, India, Thailand, Indonesia and New Zealand, and only has about eight percent of agricultural land for agro-food production. Malaysia’s food import bill has grown significantly over the last two decades and exceeded RM 52 billion in 2018. 

Research shows that imported food loses an alarming amount of nutrients during processing, packaging and transportation before it reaches consumers. In addition, traditional farming methods and the existing logistics involved in the supply chain contribute in a big way to the carbon footprint.  With the world experiencing unprecedented challenges amid the global Covid-19 pandemic, the threat to food security has increased. 

This article first appeared in BusinessToday

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