It seems like strawberry is a difficult flavour to get in a black tea. Often I find it’s more a flavour of strawberry leaf rather than the flavour of the actual fruit. Strawberry flavoured things, like sweets and such, also often have a really synthetic flavour to them, so I’m not really surprised that it’s difficult. Strawberry just seems to be a very flighty and finicky flavour in itself, and as I’m sitting here typing it’s actually difficult for me to drudge up a memory of what an actual real strawberry actually tastes like.
This is odd, really, because strawberry is such a popular flavour to add to things.
This tea is really no different. It has dried strawberry leaf in, and that is really the primary flavouring note that I get. I can’t say that surprises me because I was sort of expecting it, but I do wish I could find one that actually tastes like berries and not so much like the leaf.
That said, strawberry leaf is also a rather pleasant flavour in tea, so I wouldn’t say it was a loss or a disappointment.
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I read somewhere that strawberry is one of the most difficult flavours/scents to artificially synthetize which might explain why it is so hard to find things with natural strawberry flavours. I often mentally divide the synthetic “official” flavour ( for honey, or cherries, or grapes) which often has nothing to do with how things (real honey, cherries, grapes) taste or smell, but the synthetic ones get acceptance has being real flavours because we have been consuming since we were babies stuff artificially scented with that and that we are told is that.
Not making any sense, am I? But strawberry, real strawberry is impossible to get on anything. Maybe on strawberry jam ( but even them, it can be sort of “jammy” or frozen strawberries).
I read somewhere that strawberry is one of the most difficult flavours/scents to artificially synthetize which might explain why it is so hard to find things with natural strawberry flavours. I often mentally divide the synthetic “official” flavour ( for honey, or cherries, or grapes) which often has nothing to do with how things (real honey, cherries, grapes) taste or smell, but the synthetic ones get acceptance has being real flavours because we have been consuming since we were babies stuff artificially scented with that and that we are told is that.
Not making any sense, am I? But strawberry, real strawberry is impossible to get on anything. Maybe on strawberry jam ( but even them, it can be sort of “jammy” or frozen strawberries).