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Panda tea (Mandarin Chinese: 熊猫茶) , or panda dung tea, produced in the Ya’an mountainous region of Sichuan, China, is a type of tea fertilized by the Manure of .
When it officially went on the market in April 2012, it was reputedly the world's most expensive tea with 50 grams (approximately 16 cups of tea) sold for $3,500 (£2,200), or about $200 (£130) a cup. An Yanshi, a local panda tea entrepreneur, argues that the tea is healthy, given that pandas only consume wild bamboo and absorb only about 30% of the nutrients, and that it encourages "the culture of recycling and using organic fertilizers."
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