Kava from The Kava Society

At Kava Europe we keep it simple. When it comes to kava, we only want the best.

Kava Europe emerged from a simple vision: to make the world’s finest kava easily accessible to European customers, without the hassle of long-distance shipping, customs delays or concerns about product quality. Through our exclusive partnership with the Kava Society (New Zealand) and their Vanuatu collaborators, Root and Pestle, we offer noble kava that sets the global standard for excellence. In the EU, it is offered for natural textile dyeing and as a botanical home fragrance.

Our kava is made solely from organically grown, certified noble cultivars in Vanuatu, processed directly from fresh roots using state-of-the-art methods in certified facilities, and undergoes rigorous laboratory testing to confirm botanical identity and consistent pigment quality. Each batch is fully traceable to specific noble cultivars and their growing regions, containing just one ingredient: pure noble kava root powder, dried and milled to preserve the natural aromatic and pigment-bearing compounds that make each cultivar distinctive. By choosing Kava Europe, you get the same premium kava, sourced directly from The Kava Society, now available in Europe with quick shipping and no hassle.

Fresh Root Processing

Made directly from fresh roots. Processed using state-of-the-art methods.

Tested and Traceable

Verified botanical identity, traceable to a single growing region.

Single Ingredient

Contains only one ingredient: pure noble kava root powder.

Every batch of our kava is fully characterised in the laboratory, and we publish the results. This page explains what those Certificates of Analysis record, and lets you look up the one for your batch.

Our botanicals come from Kava Society in New Zealand and their Vanuatu partners, Root and Pestle, who work only with freshly harvested, single-cultivar plants. Each batch is analysed to confirm its botanical identity and to record its chemical fingerprint, the same data that defines its colour and aromatic character.

We keep a public database of these Certificates, with PDFs covering batches from March 2024 onwards. We keep it as complete as we can, so please forgive any gaps. If a result is missing, contact us and we can usually send the raw data.

Understanding kava chemotypes and Certificates of Analysis (COAs)

Kava contains a family of compounds called kavalactones. Their relative proportions vary between cultivars and between batches, and this chemical signature, the “chemotype”, is what gives each cultivar its distinctive colour and aroma.

What is a chemotype?

A chemotype is the chemical fingerprint of a kava plant. It describes the relative abundance of six major kavalactones: desmethoxyyangonin, dihydrokavain, yangonin, kavain, dihydromethysticin, and methysticin. These are labelled numerically from 1 to 6, so a chemotype written as 243156 records the relative abundance of those compounds in that order.

What does a Certificate of Analysis record?

Each Certificate documents a single batch: its botanical identity, confirming the cultivar, and its chemical composition. It is how we verify that every batch is a single, pure noble cultivar, and that its chemical fingerprint matches the cultivar named on the label.

Reading our COAs

Each Certificate sets out the detail of its batch. A Bir Kar Instant Certificate, for example, can include:

Chemotype: 423165, the relative abundance of the six major kavalactones.
Major kavalactones: around 7.81% of the dry mass, a measure of the batch’s chemical composition.
Botanical identity: confirmation that the batch is the named noble cultivar, traceable to a single growing region.