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Talking "supercharged superfoods" with NTV News Jodi Cooke was such a fun segment. We do TEA in an entirely new way - keeping it raw and UN-DRIED to preserve MAX antioxidants and serving up 5X the ANTIOXIDANTS vs green tea.

Millennia TEA is on a mission to fuel wellness with the freshest and most antioxidant-rich tea anywhere. They pick, wash and flash-freeze tea leaves (instead of heating and drying them like conventional teas.) The result: a cup of tea as powerful as five cups of green tea, and the first food-grade tea to provide an antioxidant boost to your smoothies, sauces, soups and more.

The company was born in 2016 and has grown exponentially since launch, something Tracy Bell puts down to where they are based. “I believe being located in New Brunswick gives us a strategic advantage in attracting world-class talent,” Bell exclusively tells [EDIT]. “The opportunity to have a challenging and rewarding career while also enjoying an incredible quality of life that you can’t get elsewhere makes this an excellent place for us to grow our business and our impact.”

They are a small FEMALE LED start-up company based in New Brunswick that has created a new global category of TEA. They aren’t just TEA though, They are the ONLY fresh, un-dried tea plant product on the market today worldwide.

We recently got the chance to chat with Tracy Bell,  a television reporter, turned corporate exec, turned start-up CEO. In 2016, a health scare in the family prompted Tracy and her husband to reimagine the way tea is processed in an effort to extract more antioxidants.

​Rory and Tracy Bell, the founders of Millennia Tea, first turned to tea because of a health scare in their family. The beverage is known for its health benefits, which stem from its high concentration of cancer-fighting antioxidants.

Owned and operated by co-founders and husband and wife duo, Tracy and Rory Bell, Saint John start-up Millennia TEA is now available at Whole Foods across the country. For Tracy, this opportunity was always part of the vision for the company and is a dream come true.

Many of us enjoy a lovely, calming cup of tea in the morning, but what would you say about chewing on tea leaves in your breakfast smoothie?

On today’s episode of the Natural Health Influencer Podcast, we speak with Tracy Bell, an East Coast Canadian who has traveled around the world visiting tea estates, interviewing farmers and tea sommeliers to better understand how one can obtain the optimal health benefits that tea has to offer.

When you stop and think about it for a second, as entrepreneurs we are ALWAYS pitching. We are pitching ourselves and our services, our products and offers, we are pitching partnerships, sponsorships, features, endorsement deals, we’re pitching potential employers, new acquaintances, and in some cases we’re even pitching for funding.

Several years ago, Tracy and Rory Bell had a health scare in their family that launched a search for healthy teas rich in anti-oxidants. Everything turned out okay, but that process led them down an entrepreneurial path to the launch of a new business, Millennia TEA.

Millennia TEA co-founder Tracy Bell said working with a Canadian grocery giant rooted in the Maritimes to bring a Maritime innovation across the county was a natural partnership, especially with Covid-19 forcing the company to pivot its business plans.

The round was led by Natural Products Canad (NPC), a group of private investors, and SOSV, an international venture capital firm that is also home to Food-X, considered the world’s leading food and beverage accelerator that Millennia TEA took part in last year. The exact amount of the round is not being disclosed, but the company confirmed they did exceed their $500,000 target.