Buying TEA At The Grocery Store - What To Look For...And Avoid!

I have been getting lots of requests for a tea review video, and since I drink 1-2 cups daily, I thought it was time! Shopping for tea can be really confusing, there's loose leaf versus bagged tea, organic versus conventional, flavored teas, herbal tea, and more. Basically it comes down to this, you really want to buy organic, other countries can spray tea leaves with chemicals that are banned here. Loose leaf tea is where it's at, that is the best quality, especially compared to the dust in a tea bag. Look out for flavored teas, most time they are using those sneaky natural flavors. Bobby, Dessi, Rose, and Art! XOXO

The guide is only a kindle book, all you need to do is download the kindle app to any device and buy the book on Amazon and send it to your device. For some reason you can't but the book on the Amazon app, it's gotta be on the browser version of Amazon.

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[MadeUpLikeADoll]

Man, the stuff we've put in our bodies when our eyes were closed from the truth. What an incredible Blessing ❣️ of knowledge your're gifting us.

[icloudydust]

He's spilling the tea...

On the tea!

[HelloWorld-zooq]

I have an Asian market by my house. I have purchased their authentic Japanese green tea and it blows all these teas out the water. The more authentic the tea is, the more benefits❤

[teaformeplease]

What is in tea bags is lower grade but it is not swept off the factory floor. That is an unfortunate misconception, especially since the tea pickers worked just as hard to make it as they do for higher-grade teas.

[SO-ymzs]

If you want really good tea, treat yourself and seek out loose tea from a good importer. High-quality tea isn't cheap, but the flavor difference from your everday grocery store teabags is often staggering. You can find a seemingly endless variety to explore, and each growing region, estate, and flush (harvest) will have distinct flavors. A typical grocery store tea section doesn't even hint at the full array of what's out there.

Failing that, visit an Asian market. Selection will probably limited to teas from the Far East, but even the cheap loose teas there will often blow the tea bags from your regular grocery store out of the water.

If you stick with tea bags made with tea fannings (aka "dust"), steep them for way less than the packages usually recommend. 3-5 minutes might be appropriate for a loose tea, but you're aiming for more like 30-60 seconds because of the vastly increased surface area of the tea dust. Otherwise, you're going to have some bitter, nasty tea. Similarly, for green or oolong teas, you want to use water that's come off the boil and allowed to cool somewhat. Scalding your green tea with boiling water is a sure way to ruin it.

[mandyn]

Rooibos is a tea that can only be produced in South Africa. It's considered a super food/ drink as it has high amounts of antioxidants (50% more than that in green tea). It even has AHA (alpha hydroxi acids) in it's most natural form and we know how skin care enthusiast love aha😅. It can prevent diabetes (not cure it) and it's may treat cancer (studies are still in process). Rooibos is the best tea in my opinion😅... Much love from South Africa❤️🇿🇦.

[sriceman]

From now on whenever I see ground up tea, I'm gonna picture the factory janitor literally sweeping up the tea and putting it in tea bags!😆

[ebonyj]

Traditional Medicinals is my favorite brand as they make compostable tea bags. All of their teas are organic and they have a ton of different varieties. I love seeing this video as tea is my favorite drink

[Antelocapra]

No, $23 for a small box of tea is not within 90% of people's budget. Might as well give us winter coat buying tips while in a Gucci store.

[ProLifeTours]

I would really want to see how long this guy lives.

[powdagirl]

I didn’t know that choosing tea would be this complicated 😞

[noyb]

If you want to pay 4x for your tea, then get the whole leaf. If you are drinking for health benefits, and don't mind a little bitterness, then buy what you can afford.

[thickaroniandcheese]

Wish he did this at Walmart... I wanna see what he thinks of the regular $3 teas

[tctopcat]

Please do a WORLD MARKET grocery haul.

[arif]

Trader Joe's has several organic teas including ginger and turmeric and Moroccan mint. I've been buying both for years and love them! They're a bargain too. $2.49 for a 20ct box!

[OMGitsaClaire]

My dad is a tea fanatic and he recently swore off all tea in teabags. Instead there’s a local coffee shop (they roast their own beans there) in our town that sells very high quality whole leaf loose tea by weight. He can take a jar and have them fill it up for him from over a dozen teas and the people at the shop can help him choose what he likes. He owns this little metal spoon with a hinged cover that has holes in it and it’s perfect for single cups. You just fill the spoon, close the lid, and put it in a mug of hot water to steep. I’m lucky enough to work at a museum that has a gourmet tea shop in our gift shop so I get tea there all the time. They have both caffeinated and non-caffeinated teas flavored with real ingredients (think actual peppermint leaf in the mint tea and actual dried peach in the peach tea) and they make a concentrate they can mix with iced or hot water to make different teas. And they sweeten everything to taste like a coffee shop so you can get unsweetened versions of any flavor they make. My favorite is a non-caffeinated blackberry tea. They also have a chai that tastes like sweet potato pie. (If this sounds great, they’re called Piper and Leaf and they have a website and will ship their loose leaf all over the US.) All this to say, consider buying at a local shop if you’re a tea person; they will always have a better selection than the grocery store.

[piperandleaf]

Thanks for sharing info many customers don't know! When our family started at the local farmer's market, some industry leaders wondered "how did you get blueberries to taste like that?" "ummmm....we picked wild blueberries...." "No, really....what flavorings did you use?" {Confusion} "uh, we just picked wild blueberries and dried them." "Psh, no one does that!" {Walks Off}
Since then we've learned there are only a few other tea makers out there doing all natural, no chemical tea blends. Thank you for your work!

[Shane]

My personal favorite is making my own tea blends. For herbal tea, you can buy just plain organic chamomile and organic mint and mix your own. Cheaper and healthier without added ingredients.

[georgiacahoone]

You are like a walking talking encyclopedia of information. You are amazing to me. I just found your channel and I love it.

[astaraoneill]

One correction: Not all small pieces of tea are cheap. You’ll notice all breakfast teas (strong blacks, like Irish breakfast) are small pieces. It has to do with oxygenation. Apparently, the more the leaf is broken, the more enzymes are released, which then leads to greater oxygenation, in turn producing darker black, and stronger tea. Even when not talking about strong breakfast blends, you almost never see a whole leaf black...you just can’t get it oxygenated enough in whole leaf form.