Elder flower

Description

Zhivana Organics is a USDA organic supplier and manufacturer of wildcrafted berries, fruit and medicinal herbs from Ukraine. Our products include both conventional and organic positions.

Our raw material berries and herbs grow in their natural habitat in the ecologically clean regions of Ukraine. They are harvested in the woods, on the hills, along the banks of Dnister and Pivdenny Bug rivers, away from the villages, farms and industrial facilities. Workers carefully hand pick berries and herbs at the perfect ripening time for each product.

The raw material fruit and berries are taken to our facility where they get cleaned with water and dehydrated in a temperature-controlled convection heat rooms. After that the berries are cleaned **5 times from stems and twigs, leaves, stones, imperfect pieces, unripen berries.

Fresh medicinal herbs are taken to our facility and cleaned by hand. We dry the herbs in the convection heat rooms and let them cool for *4 hours. After that we separate leaves, flowers and process according to the Client\'s needs.

Each batch of products goes through lab tests to determine its correspondence to the national standards for the specific products. The Certificate of Analysis incudes data on physical and chemical parameters, organoleptic parameters, pesticide residues, toxic element content, radioactivity, microbiological parameters, food safety data. Organic products get tested in Germany. The test report includes data on **9 pesticides.

We appreciate the gifts of nature and practice sustainable operation principles to preserve ability of the nature to restore itself. As a way to give back, every spring our team plants uncommon plants and trees to contribute to biodiversity of the Ukrainian forest.