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Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Black
Where to Buy: David’s Tea
Tea Description:
This deep dark Chinese tea is like a gorgeous starry night, glimmering with gold and silver sugar crystals that shimmer as they steep. Take a sip and the slow suggestion of cinnamon will warm your body. Your toes will tingle and your mind will turn to fireworks, falling stars, late-night seduction. It’s basically magic. (Is it getting hot in here, or is it just the tea?)
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
This tea is really fun! The dry leaf has lots of sparkly appeal – it is sprinkled with bright gold sugar spheres and glittery sugar crystals. These bits melt when the tea is brewed to sweeten the tea … but what’s even cooler is that the tea SHIMMERS. If you look at it you can see little twinkling sparkles in the brewed tea! At first, I didn’t think I’d be too keen on having a tea with a luster like this, but, now that I actually SEE its glistening beauty, I must admit, it’s really cool looking.
And it tastes good too. This is what I’d call an understated cinnamon tea … with so many cinnamon-orange flavored black teas out there that are really heavily spiced with cinnamon to the point of tasting like liquified red-hots, this tea instead allows for the sweeter, softer side of cinnamon to be experienced.
I like that it is sweet, but not too sweet. I like that it has a warmly spiced character, but it isn’t bombarding my palate with overwhelmingly strong cinnamon flavors. I like that I can taste each component to this tea: I taste the cinnamon, the clove, the vanilla, and the orange … as well as the black tea. These flavors all come together in a nicely rounded tea. Very enjoyable, indeed!
PRODUCT REVIEW: Pink Sparkle from GreenTeaHP/Green Tea Pros
Buy From: Green Tea Pros
Product Description:
Pink Sparkle is a pixie powdered GreenTeaHP beverage that is designed to enhance your lifestyle by providing key nutrients to promote physical activity.
Pink Sparkle is a proprietary blend of highly concentrated green tea antioxidants, acai, L-arginine, glutamine, CLA, L-carnatine and a full compilation of berries and pomegranates. Pink Sparkle delivers 90 mg of EGCG, the antioxidant only found in green tea, which is equivalent to 20 cups of green tea and 15 mg of caffeine.
Taster’s Review:
Today I’ve been very yawn-ish. That is to say, I haven’t been able to shake the yawns since I woke up this morning. I’ve been very sluggish – what I need is an energy boost.
And, while I was skeptical, I decided that I would give one of these pixies from Green Tea Pros a try. You know what? This stuff works! I haven’t yawned since I started sipping on this glass of prepared Pink Sparkle. And I feel more energetic.
It’s tasty too. I’ve said before when reviewing the Green Tea HP/Green Tea Pros products that I think they are designed more for the people who don’t like (or don’t think they like) green tea, but still want the health benefits of green tea. And I think that is true of the Pink Sparkle too.
That’s because this tastes more like a berry and pomegranate flavored soft drink than it does green tea. It has a pleasant sweet-tart taste from the berries and pomegranate that lingers in the finish. There is a slight “artificial sweetener” aftertaste to this that worried me just a little, as I am allergic to aspartame. But I checked the ingredients and there is no aspartame in this.
I would definitely drink this again – especially on days like this when I feel myself dragging but I can’t go back to bed because I’ve a busy day ahead. I love the burst of energy that I’m getting from it, it’s loaded with health benefits and most importantly it tastes pretty darned good.