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This is my morning tonic with a dollop of virgin coconut oil. Works well for Atkins dieters!
Is that as nasty as it sounds? I mean, it sounds effective?, but… lol
Hah! Well, it isn’t awesome, but here is the deal: I love coconut oil as cooking oil and spread on low-carb toast with peanut butter and in cooking, etc. But I take coconut oil as a supplement, which means I have to down a lot of it during the day. It is very disagreeable to swallow oil (no matter how good it tastes in food) on its own, so adding it to a hot beverage helps. Since this tisane is also part of my regimen, it makes sense to combine them.
Sorry you asked? :-)
Well at 1st I read “olive” oil (brain on default, I suppose)… but coconut oil even sounds nasty (even if I would love coconut) lol.
Hah! Coconut oil, particularly virgin coconut oil is actually really good. One of the best oils for green veggies. I put broccoli, etc, into a pan (dry) and let them cook a bit, then at the end of the cooking, I lower the heat and put in some coconut oil. (Virgin coconut oil doesn’t do well at high temperatures for too long.) It melts on contact, and I toss the veggies around. A little bit of salt, and ooh, so good!
lol well I like neither broccoli or coconut:) Go figure why I’m so in love w/matcha based on my dislike for greens lol.
This tonic combo actually sounds delicious! I have to try it. I love coconut oil!
Stephanie: At the very least, it works, and isn’t a bad start to the morning.
This tisane has actually improved for me. I got a more recent batch and it is fresher, orange-ier, and just plain tastier than the old batch. it is still very much a “health” tea, though, so I wouldn’t recommend drinking it just for taste alone. Incidentally, these herbs really do work on my blood sugar, so much so that I recommend that those drinking it take steps to avoid letting your sugars get too low. Drink this, then eat something!
finished off my travelers tin (come on cupboard i need some space!) with a 7 minute 6 ounce steep, i feel this needs a long steep and sweetener, it smells peachy, and tastes like fruity roobois per my last note, but although pleasant i think i have other favorite reds I’d rather stock.
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Would say that it had an effect on you in regards to medicinal qualities?
they said you need to have 2-3 cups a day, for days in a row, which i didn’t (the sampler then would have been gone in one day) so i can’t it did – but i also didn’t follow directions. Based off having their other “get” series I would say it’s more aromatherapy than anything else (it smells summery adn happy)
Good point, also I think they had to use extremely low does of a lot of the herbs to avoid getting into trouble with the FDA. Some of those herbs can be nasty is you overdose or if it interacts with certain medications.
Very good point, then again I’ve tried all sorts of OTC herbal pills as well (primrose oil? etc) for various things and I didn’t notice a difference, but i think for a lot of things you might need to be taking a more scientific approach to see anything – small changes and changes to you are harder to spot. so for now, vitamins and comforting tea will do, maybe a sun lamp too?
I usually just stock up on Vitamin C & D supplements and pray for spring – at least the weather seems to be obliging this year! :D
Much better when properly dosed (2 bags, 12 ounces) and 1 teaspoon german rock sugar
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Amount: TeaBag (1.5 gram)
Additives: none, 1 teaspoon german rock sugar
Water: 180 degree
Steep Time: a little over 5, 8:30 minutes
Served: Hot
Notes: The sugar sweetened and smoothed out the flavor masking the citrus
Smell: sweet, fruity, peach
Flavor: fruity, citrusy
Body: light
AmazonV Aftertaste: citrus
Militiajim Aftertaste: none
Liquor: very clear, light brown with reddish orange tint
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It’s an ok tea. The peach definitely comes out more than the black. I also think I understeeped it a little cause the tea taste is pretty weak. As a comparison, I think Stash has a stronger peach tea. This tea is enjoyable but I don’t think I would buy a can. Too bad I can’t try a longer steep time since this bag was a sample and I don’t have anymore.
Adding milk to this tea seemed like a good idea. In practice.
In reality it turned the tea into a rather icky-looking beige-grey colour and it tastes almost like I added milk to a rooibos tea, even though this tea is clearly NOT rooibos-based. I think the tea might be just too thin for milk, though I have no idea if this is a property of decaffinated teas or just this tea in general.
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Another tea from silvermage2000. :)
I’m on a quest to find a mango-flavoured tea that’ll knock my socks off. So far I haven’t had much luck and this doesn’t really break the pattern, although it is nice enough. The tea smells wonderfully mango-y and I taste the fruity mango flavoured at the beginning of each sip. Hoewever, the rest of the sip is curiously flavourless. The tea base seems oddly dull and bland – maybe because of the decaffination process?
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The best mango tea I’ve tried is, oddly enough, Caribou Coffee’s mango black tea.. you can buy it in pyramid bags online, but of course, you can try it in-store.
Nice review I just got the teas from you so thank you very much.
@Bethany: I’ll have to check them out, thanks for the rec.
@silvermage2000: I’m glad they got to you in good time. I hope you enjoy them. :)
I was cold and so I broke out a tea that my parents had — an apple cider spice and was completely underwhelmed with this tea, even when adding sugar. Lame, would be a good word, because gee, I’ve had tastier water. I was hoping for something like Adagio’s Apple Canata, but alas, this was not to be.
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Just bought a whole tin of this on impulse from Whole Foods’ valentine display. I opened up the tin and let the scent waft about my car on the ride home. I was genuinely worried after reading others’ tasting notes that this might turn into a cognitive dissonance thing (hello psych degree) where I’d convince myself I like it just to avoid buyer’s remorse. But I honestly do love this. . . with TONS of sugar. Delicious candy in a cup!
