![]() 7-Eleven - Green Tea Flavored With Ginseng And Honey.If it contained tea or some sort of steeped herb extract, I considered it fair game. I didn’t differentiate between sweetened, unsweetened, black, green, or herbal varieties. I had each tea served chilled (as that is how they are sold) and randomly poured for me. Here are the best bottled and canned teas, blind taste tested and ranked.įor this blind taste test, I tasted 16 different varieties of bottled and canned tea from local gas station convenience stores as well as 7-Elevens in my area. Unfortunately, this test revealed that bottled tea doesn’t really have that level of complexity - so if you like tea but have no f*cking clue what I’m talking about, fear not. That’s like saying “we have clear alcohol and dark.” ![]() And don’t even get me started on Chai and Matcha! Once you know all of that, it’s impossible to go back to being fine with “black or green” as a descriptor. If you’re a true die-hard tea drinker like me, you’ve probably been offered tea before and immediately asked “what kind?” Only to be told “we have black and green,” to which you asked once again, “but what kind?” It’s an annoying line of questioning but there is a whole lot of difference between something like a pearl jasmine green tea and a gunpowder Genmaicha, or a Darjeeling and an English Breakfast. When you brew tea for the proper amount of time (3 minutes for green, 5 for black, 7+ for anything herbal) the leaves and flowers evolve into a complex expression that can taste grassy, floral, vegetal, rich, malty, toasted, chocolaty, savory, bitter, and sweet - no sugar or artificial flavors required. Which is why bottled tea is usually packed with sugar. After it has chilled in a bottle for who knows how long, it loses that special essence that makes tea such a delicious drink. So when I set out to blind taste test every bottled and canned tea beverage we could find I knew it would be a good time.Īnd then I remembered something - tea is best enjoyed right after being brewed. Give it to me hot, give it to me iced, sweetened, unsweetened, I’ll drink it down. White tea, green tea, black tea, mate, rooibos, gossip, psychedelic tea, herbal tea… if you can steep it in boiling water and turn it into a beverage, I’ve probably drunk it and loved it. The marketing gurus behind sugary beverages are great at their jobs, and they can spin the PR so that people are convinced the iced tea out of the soda machine is better than the soda itself.I love tea. But, when it is watered down and doused with sugar, most people would be better off eating antioxidants in fruits and vegetables than drinking bottled sweetened tea. On the other hand, tea has been shown to have potential benefits to multiple body systems, including cardiovascular and brain health, likely due to its antioxidant content. Soda has zero redeeming qualities when it comes to nutritional benefits. A 20-ounce bottle of nearly any major brand of sweetened iced tea will run you about 240 calories and almost 60 grams of sugar, which is on par with a similar serving size of soda and the equivalent of 15 sugar cubes. Sugary beverages of any sort are no better than one another, especially when it comes to matters of weight loss. It doesn’t have all the sugar like soda does.” Sorry, that is not true. I drink that (insert famous brands here) stuff in the can or bottle. ![]() When I ask if they are brewing it and monitoring the sugar content, I am often told, “Oh, no. I cannot tell you how often I have heard people say they “gave up soda and now drink iced tea.” Initially, this sounds like a wonderful thing. As a dietitian, I work with various clients, many of whom are seeking weight loss.
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