Badia Spices, Inc.

My mom always used to bring this tea back for me when she would visit Florida. I enjoy all linden teas. It’s just such a light, pleasant flavor that doesn’t need anything added. This is best at room temperature. It’s a linden tea that tastes like linden tea – nothing more to say!

Pure chamomile flowers. Most of the flowers are hole. I did not do a bagged version. I bought a big spice container full of it. It’s good for drinking at night. The liquor brews out in a light goldish yellow color. The smell is floral sweet but subtle and smooth. The taste is sweet, smooth, floral, maybe a bit herbaceous, maybe a slight nutty flavor. This is another tea I have grown to love.

A pretty flat, unremarkable tea that I really like regardless. Tastes a little like warm grass and sunshine; this tea is relaxing and simple.

Star anise is good for digestion and stomach upset, and this is packed full of it, seemingly with no other additives/ingredients. Each box only has ten tea bags, but the price is cheap enough to make it worth it. Tastes very strongly of licorice, which I don’t like, but still has that warm, soothing bright feeling that good teas do.

Exactly what it says on the box. There isn’t much in each bag, but that’s to be expected as it’s a very low-priced tea.

tastes great with a bit of honey

Blehhhhh Steepster. I feel like crap. And I’m also consulting my Steepsterites for medical advice.

Yesterday I had a stomach ache pretty much all day, so I drank various mint teas and herbal teas (like this one). Dinner time rolls around and since I’m feeling kinda bleh, my boyfriend and I go out to dinner to a vegetarian Vietnamese restaurant for soup. Originally I was gonna get pho, but we end up getting something called a “Hot Pot” which is a lot LIKE soup and is often called “Chinese Fondue”. Anyway, we ended up eating the exact same thing since we are sharing it.

We come home to watch TV, I make it through one episode, and my stomach starts hurting like crazy. It has escalated from “stomach ache” to “I think I’m going to hurl pretty soon”. You know the feeling ;) I try to shake it off by going to bed… and proceed to toss and turn for the next several hours because I don’t want to get up and throw up. 3:30 rolls around, I give up the ghost, and go into the bathroom and throw up – of course. I go back, try to go to sleep, but toss and turn for another hour until I get up and throw up again. Bleh. Eventually, I find sleep for a couple hours, before being woken up at around 8 (because my BF is leaving for work) and throw up a third time. Yay. So long herbal tea.

So now I’m trying to figure out what’s going on and how long it’s going to last. My boyfriend and I ate the same thing for dinner, so I don’t think it was food poisoning. The whole day I didn’t even eat anything exotic: rice, vegetables, cereal. I did drink some kombucha, which some would call odd, but my stomach was already bothering me by then. I’m hesitant to blame it on my hippie drink.

I don’t really have a fever. Which makes me think that it’s not the flu. My BF has me all paranoid because he mentioned how his boss had salmonella and it lasted for weeks. Iccch. I’ve been keeping my meat intake low, but the night before last my boyfriend and I did have a raw tuna and avacado appetizer at restaurant (which we’ve had several times before). I had the majority of it, although my BF did have some, too. Is it possible he wasn’t affected by that but I was?

I’d normally be fine letting things run their course, but I’m set to go out of town this Friday. I really don’t want to be sick. I’m really hoping this is just a “day” thing. My stomach still feels a little icky (not as bad as before, though). I’ve been drinking water, but I’m scared to eat anything else. I probably will soon, though.

A review of Yerba Mate by Badia Spices, Inc.

Company: Badia Spices, Inc
Tea Name: Yerba Mate
Tea Type/Varietal: herbal
Region: South America
Steeping Vessel/Amt. Leaf: cup/ tea bag
Liquor Color: dark brown
Leaf Characteristics:

1st Steeping:
Water temperature: 200 Fahrenheit
Time: 5 minutes

This cup of tea is steeped for five minutes, resulting with a strong pungent flavor and a fresh aroma that I imagine is full of vitamins and antioxidants which are all good for this person. It is a good thing; I think that I am learning to like Yerba Mate. As I recall an earlier review where I could not discern anything of the then similarly tea.

2nd Steeping:
Water temperature: 200 Fahrenheit
Time: 3 minutes

This tea’s second steep is not as pungent as first cup of tea but it does still make for a good cup of tea.

A review of Chamomile & Anise Tea by Badia Spices Inc.

Company: Badia Spices, Inc
Tea Name: Chamomile & Anise
Tea Type/Varietal: Herbal
Region: Asia / Mediterranean
Steeping Vessel/Amt. Leaf: cup/ tea bag
Liquor Color: light yellow
Leaf Characteristics:

1st Steeping:
Water temperature: 200 Fahrenheit
Time: 5 minutes

I purchased this tea at a newly visited grocery store. It is one we had seen but not actually shopped in. I found their teas to be very inexpensive so I grab a few and put them in the grocery cart.

I steeped this tea for fives minutes with boiled water added into my cup with tea bag in it. The tea is a lovely yellow color and when steeped longer, the tea darkens to a yellow brown coloring. The aroma is that of the Anise with the chamomile lingering on. When I sip of the tea, I taste the anise which is very spicy. I want to say not unlike the taste of ginger since it has that zing to it and the chamomile is there to absorb, making it somber/smoother; to soften the peppery effect of the anise.

In all this tea is to help with digestion as it helps to relax the stomach. The tea has a fresh sweet taste of licorice and cloves with a mildly pungent finish…which I describe as having zest or good kick like when ginger is added in.

I would buy this tea again.

This is a nice, bland tea. It’s good for colds, and helped me reduce blockage. I recommend adding a bit of sugar, to bring out the sweeter components of the tea.