Yogi Tea

Mastress Alita’s Monthly Sipdown Challenge
January 2022 → A tea paired with a favorite hobby

Final tea for January. As expected from most any dandelion-heavy blend, it’s bitter and tastes a bit like dirt. :D

I’ve been taking some herbalism courses on and off over the last couple years, and many of the preparations include dandelion in some form or another. I think dandelion is one of those really wonderful plants where you can pretty much use the whole thing in one way or another. A real powerhouse herb, though most everyone I know considers it to be a pesky weed.

Surprisingly for a Yogi tea, this blend doesn’t have any licorice (though I swear that was the first thing I smelled when I opened the bag). The ingredient list is relatively short, again for a Yogi tea. I can’t say I loved the taste of this one, but I didn’t dump it out either.

Woke up with confirmed sickness Saturday, steeped a couple bags of this just to hydrate with something warm and soothing.

Just wanted something warm to drink until lunch. This stuff is super super sweet.

GCTTB (roung 6) entry

Ick! I should have known better than to think this wouldn’t be sickly sweet, but some brilliant tea maker thought sickly sweet licorice root should also have stevia accompanying it. Absolutely disgusting, I don’t know how anyone can enjoy this, and that’s coming from someone who prefers the taste of artificial sugar/diet soda. This isn’t a sweet tea with sugar added sweet. This is full blown stevia in overdrive sweet. It dries my tongue out too.

The licorice root is nice and licorice-y, herbaceous, distinct taste of medicinal herbs and root. The mint is fresh and not vegetal.

Bought this among a bunch of other tisanes the other day to drink when I don’t want caffeine and want a large mug of something to keep warm. Tried this the other day when I wasn’t feeling great and I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. It didn’t taste the way I thought it would. I realized afterward that this has added natural flavoring, which may be why I feel meh about it. And one of those flavorings is hazelnut, and while I like hazelnuts, I am allergic to them so that may or may not be a bad thing. I clearly didn’t read the ingredients on this one before I bought it.

Meh, more general herbal flavor, not bad but not noticeably helpful either. I suppose it doesn’t help that all these teas are so old, oh well.

Sweet, fruity, hibiscus-y; would do well as an iced or hot tea (or room-temp tea). Very pleasant taste makes it one of my go-to teas when I can’t decide what to drink. Added benefit of containing herbs that are good for the skin, like burdock and dandelion.

I knew I was going to need something a bit spicy that I could steep a big mug of to keep me warm for a while this morning, so I stole some of this from the SO’s housemates. I wouldn’t buy it, but it served its purpose!

My throat started getting scratchy again today. Not sure what this is about, but I brought a bag of this with me just in case, so I’m glad I did. It’s not helping as much today, though, just making my mouth taste like sweet fennel licorice.

Not sure if it’s allergies or germs or just the air that’s not agreeing with me, but my throat needed some comfort. This delivered.

The taste is fine, but nothing special — mostly like mint (and a little bitter). I wouldn’t drink it for the taste alone, but the ingredients are beneficial for aches and pains. I haven’t noticed a huge difference in pain level after drinking it, but it seems to be a little effective.

My colleague gave this to me as a gift. I am not a big fan of herbal tea but this doesn’t taste so bad. Really does feel a bit more relaxed after drinking it.

A decent tea, full of proven detoxing ingredients. As for the taste, it has a very “chai”-like flavor profile. I don’t love the flavor itself (I don’t enjoy chai tastes, and it’s somewhat spicy), but it has that soothing/warm feeling that I look for in any good tea, so I would still drink it again. I also enjoy the health benefits.

It has a very strange syrup-y taste that coats your whole mouth.. I hated it when I first drank it.. But NOW that I have a horrendous cold, I love it. For colds (sore throat/cough/congestion), it’s awesome. Not so much as an everyday treat.

I was cold. Now I am warm and gingery. :3

Feeling blah the last couple of days. Time to load up on fluids and sip massive mugs of hot herb water.