Showing posts with label Drinks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drinks. Show all posts

10/30/2024

Dilmah Infusions Green Rooibos with Coconut and Mango, 40 Grams

This is a healthy tisane made of green rooibos (not the usual red variety) and not suitable for milk tea. The ingredients are mostly tea, 5% mango and 5% coconut nothing else. This tea smells delicious and has a sweet-ish taste but not sugar in it. The flavour is equally yummy and satisfying. I cannot distinguish the coconut flavour at all. The aroma and flavour are more peach than mango to me. Nevertheless, a delicious flavoursome tisane with no caffeine.  Teabag material is really great quality.

9/21/2024

Higher Living Organic Cinnamon Tea 15 Teabags

This is a healthy organic clean delicate tisane that doesn't taste of any of the particular ingredients listed on the packaging. It does not taste or smell of cinnamon at all, even though the tea is sold as Cinnamon Tea and the packaging says it has 35% of cinnamon in it. So this is a tisane with some cinnamon in it not cinnamon tea. Also, the scent and flavour of this tea are totally lost and the tisane tastes more like a chamomile than of anything else, but there is no chamomile in it.
 
I won't buy this again. I will stick to my Celestial Cinnamon and Apple Tea, which is more expensive but one teabag brews two mugs of tea and tastes and smells of cinnamon. This one of example why tisanes should be called tisanes unless the majority of the ingredient in a tea bag is the product mentioned on the packaging.

3/24/2024

Fanta Raspberry Zero Sugar Mini Can Multipack 6 x 250 ml

Great pack and sizing for my lunch box and the occasional snack time at home. This small can fills in 3/4 or 4/5 of a tall glass, depending on the sizing of the glass I use. I love the flavour and it tastes great despite being sugar free.

3/23/2024

Sprite Zero Sugar Lemonade Mini Can Multipack 6 x 250 ml

I hadn't tried Sprite zero ever and Sprite for years. These cans are perfect for lunch boxes, to carry in my bag on hot days, or use them with snacks at home. They fill in 3/4 or 4/5 of a tall glass, depending on the glass. However, the flavour is kinda meh, it tastes of water with sugar, no lemony or lemonade flavour anywhere. So, I won't buy them again.

7/26/2023

English Tea Shop Gift Pack Your Wellness Collection Light Blue 36 Sachets, 54 g

I'll be honest, I bought this tea pack because I love the tin box and I wanted to add it to my collection of ETS tins at home. The illustrations and overall quality of the tin are just beautiful and I use this one to store craft materials. It's not just that I wanted to have the tin, I knew beforehand that I would get good-quality organic herbal-blend tisane teas. The varieties in this pack didn't disappoint me. They are beautiful light enjoyable clean teas with no caffeine, so I drink them in the evening without a worry; now that's Winter I drink these teas instead of water as they are hot, healthy and taste good. The labeling information on the tin and the way it's displayed are excellent, something I don't take for granted. 

4/30/2023

Bonvit Roasted Dandelion and Chicory Tea, 32 Teabags

I love the taste of this mix of chicory & dandelion root. The colour is coffee-like. I drink it without sugar and with a drop of milk and it takes similar to coffee. It's slightly bitter without sugar, but the kind of bitterness that is enjoyable and palatable. The product comes in handy individual teabags inside a saleable plastic bag One teabag is enough to make a strong large mug of 'coffee' in the morning. As it's caffeine-free, I drink it at night without worrying that will affect my sleep. I've noticed a slightly laxative effect if I drink several cups of this a day. A bit pricey.

10/30/2022

Madura Green and Papaya 20 Enveloped Tea Bags, 30 g

This a good green tea tisane, made with a mix of green tea and papaya leaf. The packaging design is great overall (from the containing box to the sachets to the tea tags system) and the quality of the herb is good. However, I was expecting something that does taste a bit of papaya not just of green tea, and this is what this tea tastes of to me, green tea. The package doesn't list the percentage of papaya leaf in it, but I think it's very small because of what I've said. This tea is still very nice, but not what I expected. As any green tea, the tisane has a small amount of caffeine in it, but nothing that keeps me awake. There is no way on the packaging that it says it is organic.

SECOND VERSION
In a few words, not my cup of tea. It is a nice very-light green tea with some papaya leaf added but the taste of latter is not noticeable to taste. The packet doesn't list the percentage of papaya leaf in it, something that is a red flag to me. Besides, I like my green tea to be organic but there is nothing on the package to indicate that this is the case.  It has a tiny amount of caffeine but nothing that prevents me from falling asleep if I take it at night.
 
NB = The review has been deleted thrice from Amazon, despite being completely honest and having nothing that you would consider against Amazon guidelines. I tried the second version, to no avail. Like they have blocked me for saying that the chamomile is too weak and packaging isn't clear about the ingredients in it, which is against Australian food regulations. I guess that the people declining publication are Madura company themselves, so I won't buy from these people every again. 

I WON'T BUY EVER AGAIN :)

6/30/2022

6/26/2022

Heaven Dragon Pu Er Tea, 125 g

This is large box of loose leave Pu er tea. Pu er is a very strong tea, stronger than any strong black breakfast tea, so I use half of the quantity I'd use to prepare my normal tea. In fact, I can reuse the leaves twice and still get flavorsome tea. This tea not only has a strong smoky flavor but also a noticeable strong smoky smell. I take this tea with milk due to its strength; personally, I'd not have it on its own. This isn't the first time I use this variety of tea, so I can compared it against other brands I've used in the past, and the brew is as good as more expensive brands. This is an amazing value for money package as Pu er is a rare tea variety and it's usually quite expensive.

MIND = There aren't brewing instructions on the package.