Salada | Soothing Mint

If you are a long-time tea drinker, you’ve probably seen Salada Tea on your local grocery store shelf.  Today I’m drinking one of Salada’s new green teas called Soothing Mint.  The ingredients: Green Tea, Spearmint, Natural Spearmint Flavor, Peppermint, and Lemongrass. Combined, the ingredients create a very flavorful cup of tea.  Obviously you need to enjoy mint flavored beverages to appreciate this product.  Soothing Mint easily exceeded my expectations.

The minty flavors mixed with lemongrass create a very smooth and refreshing flavor.  I would like to taste more of the green tea, but I don’t think it’s necessary to make this a popular hot or iced tea option.  The fact is it has an appealing flavor.  Salada’s tea is very finely cut in a standard tea bag.  There’s nothing over-the-top about their products.  Salada aims to please based on a consistent, flavorful, and affordable product.

In the end, I found the tea to be delicious when it was iced.  Moroccan-style mint tea is one of my favorite iced teas.  With Salada’s Soothing Mint I can create an iced tea that has many of the same properties I enjoy about Moroccan-style mint tea.  As a hot tea, I would have liked more green tea flavors to be present.

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Tavalon | Purity

Purity by Tavalon: “A detoxifying blend of premium Ceylon black tea with peppermint leaves and ginger root”

This was a fun tea to drink.  I wasn’t certain if I was going to enjoy the peppermint leaves mixed with Ceylon black tea.  I really like the overall presentation of the tea.  It has a nice mix of dark tea leaf and vibrant peppermint green colors popping out at you.  The scent is just as inviting as you can imagine (unless you absolutely dislike peppermint, ginger root, or black tea).  The peppermint is the absolute dominate scent from the dried product.  Having said that, you can still detect the black tea and a little ginger root on the nose.

I typically steeped the tea for about 3 minutes in water that I let cool slightly from a boil (around 200 degrees).  The liquor is very dark.  The peppermint leaves float to the top of the pot while the Ceylon tea leaves rest on the bottom during the steeping process.  The first sip is full of peppermint flavor.  It really awakens the senses – must be part of the detoxifying experience.  It’s interesting to me how the black tea supports the peppermint.  The Ceylon is not totally lost in the flavor despite the strong flavors of peppermint.  The ginger flavor accents the black tea and peppermint well.  The ginger is present in a mild dose and  it’s not too intrusive to the overall tea.  The Ceylon flavor continues to shine through as the tea cools.  I really like this tea…  I don’t add anything to it.  There are plenty of natural flavors that make this tea a great option for me.  It is perfect to help get you going in the morning.  I find it enjoyable any time of the day (keep in mind it does have caffeine).

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