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Organic Saigon Chai

The Ingredients: Organic black tea from India, Organic cinnamon, Organic ginger, Organic pink peppercorns, Organic cardamom, Organic cloves, Natural (cinnamon, vanilla, cream) flavouring. I picked up a Chai sampler from Davids Tea while I was picking up some more of their tea sachets. I prefer Davids Tea ones because they have a drawstring to pull once you’ve filled it.I started

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Kikyo by Chelsea Turek from Adagio Teas

From the website for Kikyo: This tea has been brought back from the dead just to be with you! With the calming presence of oriental spice and sweet rooibos peach it has your spirit at peace, only to turn around and and shoot with an arrow…I mean with cinnamon and peppercorns to your taste buds. Drink before you go to

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Gray Fullbuster by Lunar Sinner from Adagio Teas

Gray Fullbuster Blend by Lunar Sinner Ingredients: Blended With Black Tea, Natural Forest Berries Flavor, Natural Vanilla Flavor, Ceylon Sonata, Raspberry Leaves, Raspberries & Strawberries Teas used in the blend are: Ceylon Sonata, Forest Berries, Vanilla. Gray Fullbuster is my absolute favourite character from Fairy Tail! I couldn’t resist trying this tea because it sounded like a good mix and

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Roronoa Zoro by IceFire from Adagio Teas

Roronoa Zoro is a character from the anime, manga and now live action known fondly as One Piece. He fights with 3 swords and should not be allowed to navigate under any circumstances as he’s guaranteed to get lost. Ingredients: Blended With Black Tea, Green Tea, Cinnamon, Ginger, Orange, Cloves, Cardamom, Lemongrass, Natural Lemon Flavor, Natural Spice Flavor & Marigold

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Noda by A O from Adagio Teas

Noda is a character from the anime Angel Beats. I was surprised to find a fandom tea blend for him from Adagio Teas Ingredients: Blended With Rooibos Tea, Cinnamon, Ginger, Orange, Cloves, Cardamom, Ginger Varietal, Rooibos, Apple Pieces, Natural Vanilla Flavor, Natural Cinnamon Flavor & Natural Apple Flavor The three blends for this are Rooibos Vanilla Chai, Rooibos, and Rooibos

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Chai Concentrate by Tazo

This isn’t technically a tea as it’s a tea concentrate.. but it makes good lattes. It has a black tea base and is designed to pair with milk. DON’T drink it straight from the carton! This is the same stuff Starbucks uses in their Chai lattes but it’s a lot cheaper, especially if you buy a pack of 3 from

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Ceremonial Grade Matcha by Do Matcha

The matcha powder is stored inside a foil packet inside the tin. It’s smooth with no clumps while being a very vibrant shade of green. I normally make mine as a matcha latte but I’ve also thrown some of this matcha into my homemade lemonades and smoothies. If you put a bit in your smoothie or lemonade, you won’t taste

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Alchemist’s Brew by Silk Road

From the Silk Road Tea Store website: Flavour profile: a zesty & refreshing tea with a tantalizing reddish pink hue ingredients: hibiscus flowers, spearmint leaves, lemongrass, rosehips, cinnamon bark, citrus peel Silk Road has a tea shop in BC but will ship to elsewhere in Canada. This one was actually from a friend of mine. Full disclosure I’m not a

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Lemon Yerba Mate by Teavivre

Yerba mate or yerba-maté is a plant species of the holly genus Ilex native to South America – Wikipedia From the Teavivre website: This Lemon Mate tea of TeaVivre is made from all the leaf blades, so the shape of dry tea leaves are tiny and flat, in yellow-green natural color. Besides, blended with natural citronella and dried fruits, this

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Latte Matcha from Teanobi

The flavor is so rich, creamy, and smooth. Yes, it’s vegetative, but, that’s to be expected. This IS Matcha! Latte Matcha from Teanobi

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Health and Tea

I love a good cup of tea. In fact according to my family I’m a bit of tea snob. I don’t think that’s true since I’ll still drink David’s Tea and even sometimes bagged mass market tea. The Steepster tea community taught me a lot. Well David’s tea is a good starting point for people, hopefully they can expand past

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