Yogi Tea
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I’m not sure why this one is being panned in reviews. For a bagged tea, it’s not too bad. From the looks of it, it’s using more fannings than anything else, but that could just be due to the spices. Mostly, when you drink this, you taste the ginger, which might be what so many object to. It’s more of a complicated taste, as there are a lot of different herbs being used, which also might irritate some, who might be wanting a less demanding tea. The aftertaste is also very much clove, which, as I stated, the overall taste being ginger, might also play some havoc on people’s tastebuds. All in all, not a bad tea, for those looking for an herbal remedy tea.
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Obviously I am not drinking this for taste. It takes serious desperation for me to drink a tea like this because let’s just say the aftertaste alone…it makes me feel like I knocked over all my spices and decided to clean them up with my tongue.
It smells terrible. It tastes terrible. But even if it’s just a placebo effect at some point today, it’d be cool to be able to breathe out my nose continuously.
Maybe I won’t even need this since it’s going to rain 3" over the next few days. DROWN WEED POLLEN, DROWN!
Ugh. I hope you feel better soon. =(
Aweee get well soon!
Get well soon! But yeah, I find their teas are hit and miss.
I can breathe now, but it took a chocolate chip cookie to get any sense of taste back hahaha.
haha I totally just pictured you licking up the knocked over spices with your tongue haha
this doesn’t sound good.
My daughter signed up for a free sample from Yogi tea and got the stress relief sample for me. This tea and Bedtime were the two included.
Last night my hubby, who has had a cold for about a week and hasn’t slept well, said he couldn’t sleep even though his cold was better. He said his mind would not stop spinning as he mulled lots of work related issues, most of them positive but still keeping his mind busy.
I suggested he try this. To quote Missy’s daughter, it smelled like butt. So much so, in fact, that I took a sip just to make sure this tea was not going to traumatize him like Evening in Missoula did. It didn’t taste too bad. There was a bit of cinnamon taste and licorice root, of course.
Did it work? He says he went to sleep pretty quickly and wants more tonight. Since I am out of this one, I will give him Bedtime tonight, and I will stock up on whichever one works best for him.
LOL it may be the kava that smells yucky. I know valerian root smells really bad as well but it works so awesomely as a sleep aid. I use sleepy time extra. The mints in it really seem to cover up the valerian root well. Bonus, is it’s a cheaper tea I can get in bag form. If you like I can send a couple of bags for your hubby to try out. :D
Trust me, the kava is the reason for its foul smell. I sometimes buy pure kava powder and make kava beverages the traditional way of Fijian islanders, and it is the absolute most horrible tasting thing I’ve ever experienced. You sort of acquire a taste for it though, and it provides potent relaxing effects (when you buy the high quality stuff and make it the traditional way.
(Sorry for the novel, I’m a bit of a nerd.)
As for Yogi’s stress relief tea actually working, I’m cynical because the active ingredients in kava kava root actually aren’t water soluble, pacific islanders brew it in water mixed with some kind of fatty substance because kava is fat soluble rather than water soluble. So in other words, this Yogi stuff is probably just a waste of money. ;)
Both kava and valerian smell bad but are much safer than sleeping pills! I also like chamomile which a lot of people seem to hate. ;-)
Melatonin?
I’ve tried melatonin at dr.’s recommendation, but it keeps me just barely under the wake/sleep line, instead of good deep REM snoozing.
I remember drinking kava bevvies when I was in Tonga! Looove Tonga & the Fiji Islands – one day I will go back ; 3;
Fortunately, he felt that the Bedtime Tea did as much good, and it is not nearly as nasty! I want to try that one from Mountain Rose Herbs. I am so sure there were others I saw reviewed that I have wanted…I will have to check it out!
Again, a tea belonging to my daughter that she can’t stand to drink! When she described what she hated about it – the texture of the tea on the swallow, the slippery texture that remains – I knew it was the licorice root that turned her off. But I like licorice root. I find it soothing and comforting. A couple of years ago I had a lot of dry throat problems that were keeping me up at night, and two throat soothing teas gave me a lot of relief. My only concern is the effect licorice root can have on blood pressure. I don’t know how much it takes to raise it, and mine is already if-fy.
I don’t think of this as a flavored green. Maybe I will as I drink more of it. It really tastes like an herbal tisane to me. Fortunately, she bought a whole box of this one so I get to try it again when I can pay closer attention to it.
I am getting to taste a lot of tea this weekend, as my daughter is trying some new ones and has liked any of them, so she keeps passing the cup to me. This one was a BLEH! For her, but I didn’t think it was bad. I don’t know from just one cup if it would improve my skin or not, but it was pleasant enough to drink!
