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Herbal tea

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duckyfuzz · 08/10/2013 14:41

I've tried, I really have, but I really can't get on with herbal teas at all, is there some trick to it (like shut your eyes, down in one then have something nice to take the taste away)?!

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CocacolaMum · 08/10/2013 14:42

I have tried them and I don't understand them at all. Just taste like mucky water?

Silverlace · 08/10/2013 14:44

I tried raspberry leaf tea once for period pains. I know why it works - it is because the tea tastes so revolting it takes your mind off the pain!

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duckyfuzz · 08/10/2013 14:45

I've just bought some peppermint and liquorice stuff, based on my love for both flavours, its revolting! Mucky water is a good description.

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CoffeeTea103 · 08/10/2013 14:45

Have you tried chamomile with a drop of honey? It's really tasty.

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duckyfuzz · 08/10/2013 14:45

Grin silverlace

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duckyfuzz · 08/10/2013 14:46

CoffeeTea103 - I hate honey at the best of times so it probably wouldn't be my thing

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CoffeeTea103 · 08/10/2013 14:49

Op I was about to suggest the honey in the peppermint tea.

YoniTime · 08/10/2013 15:03

There is no trick, either you like them or not. I love peppermint tea, so refreshing, does definitely not taste like mucky water!

Lottapianos · 08/10/2013 15:09

Haha! I'm one of those total weirdos who never drink normal tea or coffee so I have an entire cupboard full of herbal/fruit teas. I love them although I can see why they wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea Wink ......... I am just so hilarious Grin

If you don't like them, then that's fair enough. Life's too short to be torturing yourself like this Smile

Binkyridesagain · 08/10/2013 15:09

I like the fruity ones but you have to bash the bag repeatedly and leave it in the water whilst drinking otherwise it tastes of nothing.

GrendelsMum · 08/10/2013 15:14

The quality makes a huge difference with herbal teas, in my opinions. If you buy expensive ones, they taste very different to the standard Twinings herbal teabags. You might not like the taste, but they don't taste like mucky water!

MarianneBrandon · 08/10/2013 15:16

I love peppermint tea and camomile tea. I have however tried a lemon and ginger tea and that was so disgusting I couldn't even finish it.

MrsMook · 08/10/2013 15:19

The trick is not to be seduced by the description on the pack or the aroma of the bag. Tell yourself you're going to have a lovely mug of hot water and then the hint of flavour is a nice suprise.

Never expect them to taste like squash.

When I had Raspberry Leaf Tea in pregnancy, I had to give DS1 some fake stuff made with Vimto as he wanted to share. I wasn't sure about the health effects on 2yr old boys!

FruOla · 08/10/2013 15:22

As a non-ordinary-tea drinker, the only herbal teas I like are the minty ones. Twinings do a 'selection box' of (5 bags per selection) :

Peppermint & Eucalyptus
Pure Peppermint
Nettle & Peppermint
Camomile & Spearmint

Lottapianos · 08/10/2013 15:27

The best brands I have tried at Pukka and Teapigs. Teapigs are insanely expensive - like £5 for a box of 20 bags Shock They do taste amazing though, the peppermint one is heaven

quoteunquote · 08/10/2013 15:34

buy decent ones from the health food shop,

It's the sugar you are missing, once you get over that, you find them refreshing,

I drink a lot of fennel, nettle, mint,

use an infuser or plunge tea pot for dried camomile and fresh Egyptian mint, some people add sugar to mint tea, but it's like normal tea if you get use to it without it doesn't feel refreshing with it.

My children love the fruit teas, but I usually buy the decent ones, they tend not to like the cheaper ones, go for a brand that specialises in herb teas, Twinings and others are band wagon jumpers, and have yet to make a decent one, they have never quite got the bit about quality of ingredients or the drying process, and their stuff tastes totally wrong.

Always when you open them transfer to a glass jar rip label off shove in jar, or they lose flavour and get tainted by other things around them.

StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes · 08/10/2013 16:35

yy to teapigs peppermint, tis the only one I can drink.

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duckyfuzz · 08/10/2013 16:51

The ones I've bought are Pukka ones, I don't have sugar in tea or coffee so its not that, its just the whole taste thing! I'll persevere and they might grow on me...

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SweetLathyrus · 08/10/2013 17:02

There's part of the problem ducky. I love some herbal teas, particularly mint, but the pukka ones tasted like someone spat out toothpaste into a mug. And I agree about the mint and liquorice - sitting in my cupboard right now; but I really, really like blood orange and cranberry.

There is no law you have to like them though!

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 08/10/2013 17:08

I love herbal teas.

Peppermint
Lemon and Ginger
Camomile
Fennel, nettle and peppermint by Pukka is nice too.

YouTheCat · 08/10/2013 17:10

I can tolerate lemon and ginger. Dd likes them and green teas.

They are bleurgh.

GrendelsMum · 08/10/2013 17:21

Well, if you don't like your Pukka teas, you can send them to me!

bluebump · 08/10/2013 17:32

I like the Yogi teas and the Pukka ones. I especially like Licorice Mint from Yogi.

kennyp · 08/10/2013 18:08

puukka organic three mint is idyllic and my son loves the empty boxes for making into useless junk modelling stuff. so double thumbs up from me. i don't drink normal tea/coffee, yick.

farewellfigure · 08/10/2013 18:10

The fruity ones promise so much with their smell then don't deliver on taste imo. I love real mint tea though and chamomile, although it tastes a bit like ditch. I had to have ginger for nausea but it really is quite disgusting. I'd much rather a nice milky cup of 'normal'.