Detox

Nuts. Literally as I plopped the infuser into near-boiling water, it occurred to me that there was green tea in here…. argh. Hopefully it isn’t ruined!

Luckily, I think there’s a small enough amount of green tea in here that it’s ok. Whew! I had forgotten that I actually didn’t mind this tea; it was Exotica(?) that my roommate and I didn’t like, I think. I’m also more open now than I used to be, haha.

This tea is slightly lemony from the lemongrass, which I apparently no longer really dislike in teas (I think I just had to get used to the idea), and I can taste the rooibos but it works quite well here, just sort of a woody flavour. And if it tasted a bit medicinal, it would probably fit in anyhow.

I can definitely see that this tea would be nice and refreshing to drink after a night of overindulgence, although that’s not really my style anymore, so it’s ok to keep this out of my cupboard :)

wow i really should drink more of this.
i really like my two bold green blends from Davids (this and African Mint) but they tend to always be put second in line to my other teas. i can’t explain why. but maybe today’s sips will be the wind of change.
i spontaneously went out for some beers last night so having green balancing teas like this are obviously a good idea today. lemony and fresh. i bet this will also be a good iced tea. and even though i tend to prefer my teas hot, this one still has spring written on it’s leaves.

So yummy. Long standing favourite from Davids Tea. I find the juniper berries come through very strongly, and I often get a slight ginger burn by the end of the cup. Just delish!

Bleh. Do not want.

BUT. It works like a charm. And I have digestion problems already… so I should probably invest in this tea since straight puerh doesn’t settle my tummy like it does for others.

Won’t rate it for taste though n-n;

I would have never thought of putting most of these ingredients together but I am glad someone did!

WIth the ingredients in this tea I am surprised the flavors aren’t stronger but some of them do help cancel others out or at the very least tone them down.

I can taste the juniper berries first and then I can taste the lemongrass and then the sencha. The ginger is subtle which I appreciate. The other ingredients hang in the background too.

The taste had a hint of an herbal taste at first but went on to a slightly tart berry and lemon flavor which was a nice surprise. This is better than I thought it would be and one detox tea I can stand! This is fairly good hot AND cold!

I really like this tea – very yummy! I like that its a blend of green and rooibos teas. This is my first tea of the day during the week at work. I don’t really taste the juniper berries too much but perhaps it’s because of the lemon flavoring. I will always have a stash of this tasty tea at work!

Oh Detox, you are a girls best friend the morning after when she gets home still a little drunk and missing half her costume (I was still decent).

I don’t know what is in this but it tastes amazing and I’m almost ready to nap headache free.

Dry Leaf Nose: Ginger and lemon.

Liquor: Light rosy/earthy colour.

Flavour: Citrus and ginger hold the top position and if steeped long enough, juniper berry notes appear. Tastes like it’s actually working!

This tea scared me a bit after the first wiff. All I could smell was the juniper bushes, although it reminded me of home since we had these bushes around our house, but still not sure if it is something that I want to drink.

The brew was a nice lightish reddish color and the smell is still very much juniper berries in your face with maybe a hint of rooibos. I did sweeten it a just a bit with rock sugar, because of the smell. It took a minute to get my courage up to try a sip and hmmm this really surprised me. it was pretty darn sweet and I hardly put in much rock sugar, and I could taste the zippiness of the ginger and I wonder if the sweetness didn’t come from the lemongrass. The juniper berries were much more mellow than I thought it would be… this is pretty darn good.

Once a again a tea surprises me and tastes different than it smells. This is a pretty tasty detox diet and I think most people will like it! I will drink this again for sure.

(Whoops. This didn’t show up when I searched “Detox David’s Tea”, and I looked for it under “Detox (Organic)” and didn’t find it so made my own. But here it is, all sitting pretty under “Organic Detox.” Durh…)

Okay, Detox. I have a confession; your herbal zinginess kind of makes me a little bit afraid. The lemongrass I’m cool with; the ginger, okay. But the juniper berries make my nose quiver like a bunny’s, and I’m more than a little afraid to sip you.
BUT it’s been that kind of a day, and after three days of trying to eat healthy (and falling to the call of If I Had 1,000,000 Flavours ice cream, my home-made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and countless lattes) it’s time I took more concrete measures.
That’s where you step in.
I’m doing this naked*, the way the tea gods intended. No messing around with time, temperature or proportion. I’m following the instructions to the letter.
Let’s go:
I brewed this in a cup with a forest green interior, so I can’t see the colour of the tea. It’s darkish, though. The smell mellowed SIGNIFICANTLY after brewing. The lemongrass is like a sweet hint of summer and the ginger promises to sting you a little but, but thinks that you’ll enjoy it. The juniper berries lurk directly under that ginger, their enthusiasm for zappiness barely contained.
As per usual, I can’t sip it this hot. My lips curl back in fear. I’ll wait four minutes and try again.
Okay. Oh, very nice, very nice!
The juniper berries are a lot subtler in flavour than they originally came across in smell. They combine with the ginger to kind of give your tongue a lingering slither of heat down the sides almost as an after-thought. I have to admit that I forgot this one was a rooibos/sencha blend, and I have to say that I reeeeally like it. It has the vegetativeness of green with the whole-milk mouthfeel of rooibos. It’s a very satisfying combination.
I got this tea in a Beauty Trio pack from my mum for by birthday (okay, I got the chocolate trio, but had two of the three teas in there in my cupboard, so exchanged it), and I’m pretty sure that this Detox is going to be the first one to go.
I’ve found my new working-at-night tea!
Victory!

*not LITERALLY naked. Naked as in no milk, no sugar.

So This is my long awaited day 10 ( official) of the advent calendar. So what happened with my box is that DT gave me Kiwi’s Big Adventure twice ( Day 10 & day 20… not that I’m complaining). So I explained this to customer service and they so kindly sent me 50g of Detox. That really made my day. This tea is surprising tasty. I have tried a detox tea before and didn’t quite like it, so I was surprised by how good it tastes. All in all this tea is good and it feels cleansing, which is perfect for the new year.

the taste is so so, I tolerate it. I bought it for more energy and to maybe raise my metabolisim a bit, and for my diet (aka lifestyle change) but I am not sure how well its working altho I did look up every indivual ingrediant to see what each does, very useful info I wrote everything down so if anyone is interested in what I found let me know and Ill put it in the comments :)

Advent Calendar Day 10!

I will definitely be drinking this tea post new year this year, but I don’t think it is memorable enough for me to want to stock up on more. I like the lemon thing it has going on. Saying that, it was just an ok blend. I don’t think it tastes bad, but it didn’t blow my mind.

Day 10. Another first, thanks to the Advent calendar. A very nice green tea for certain, especially if you need a health boost during all these wet days. I had felt a bit “under the weather” over the weekend and this just made me feel a lot better. The ginger adds a little kick to the rooibos buzz that I would have received with any rooibos tea. But not in an overpowering way. Given my sensitivity to rooibos I probably won’t give in to trying more than the sampler but it’s a good match to the “Splash” tea that premiered at the beginning of this year if I was to make a comparison.

The first time I had this tea, my friend made it with boiling water and left it to steep for probably 30 minutes – It was the worst tea I’ve ever had. Flash forward to right now – I’ve steeped the tea at a toasty 80 degrees, 1.5 tsp, for 4 minutes in my perfect mug. Holy cows! The lemongrass is perfect. The rooibos, exquisite. The flavours in this tea are incredible, I just can’t believe it’s a detox tea. It doesn’t taste like there is much green tea in here, nor could i see any in the dry leaf – I just see it in my infuser, having expanded. Either way, I’ll be trying to keep this one on hand as much as possible. Who knows if it actually detoxes, it just tastes phenomenal.

I was rather off-put by the idea of another DT green tea from my Days of Tea this morning, so I shelved it for this afternoon. I’m glad I did, I wasn’t in a green mood this morning and am now. This one is much tastier than the Countess of Seville. I could do without the juniper berries, as anything that reminds me of gin is a nonstarter, but other than that, its a pretty good tea! It is, however, one I don’t see myself reaching for too often. I think I like Le Digestif better (shocking, I know). I’m glad I got to try it though. It is a nicely balanced blend of green tea and herbal; one flavor doesn’t overwhelm the other.

I do not like this tea, so I was curious if drinking it cold would be any different and cold-brewed it.

Nope. Really medicinal-tasting to me. I just can’t get past the juniper berries. Oh well!

Thank God for this tea. It is very tasty, but more importantly, it is definitely helping with my hangover this morning, even though I didn’t drink last night. Rich foods plus good company, I guess. Woke up this morning sore and dehydrated, and this little baby perked me right up! And it helps my wife’s migraines, which makes it amazing to me. This is definitely a tea we plan to keep in stock.

I adopted this from my mother (I tend to adopt a lot of teas from my mother), and being presently in a position where some detoxification is needed, I thought I’d give this a try myself!

My first critique is that this is really more of a rooibos than a green tea; I understand why it would be marketed as a green, since green tea is still a marketing buzzword for detox, health, weight loss, etc, and I’m sure the general public that buys into that mindset would be very confused if they heard rooibos instead of green, so I don’t begrudge David’s for their decision, but it can be rather misleading for anyone expecting something green tea-tasting.

Smelling and tasting the tea, you definitely get more rooibos than sencha. The liquor is golden red, a bit lighter than rooibos steeps by itself. It’s lightly sweet smelling with a whiff of lemongrass. Taste-wise it’s completely rooibos and herbal, hence why I really think this shouldn’t be marketed as a green. That’s why my mother gave it to me (she’s not a fan of rooibos), and even though I do find it tasty, I don’t think it’ll be my favourite detox tea.

So one of my coworkers gave me this tea as she did not like it. I’m not one to turn down free Davids tea so I took it off her hands for her :) I decided to finally try it before going to bed last night. I’ve had this tea for a couple of months and everytime I go to try some I am intimadated by the smell which reminds of halls cough drops – must be the juniper berries. I made sure to only steep this for 4 minutes as I didn’t want it to be too strong. The tea was not bad but not something I can see myself craving or restocking unless I can see uber health benefits. The taste was way more mellower than the smell but I still mostly tasted the juniper berries.