Herbal Tea Recommendations please!

[CSLewis]

As above . I'm considering giving up normal (Yorkshire ) tea for a month as part of a new healthy eating regime, and would like recommendations of a nice herbal tea to drink instead, as I hate drinking cold water in winter (am fairly rubbish at it in summer too...).

I HATE chamomile and lemon/honey combos, peppermint disagrees with me, quite like aniseedy ones... Oh, and preferably not at a price that will have me fainting in the supermarket aisle :-)

I love liquorice tea. It is nothing like black liquorice though. It's sweet naturally. Twinnings do it. sainsbury do their own but it's a bit weak IMO.

I also like cinnamon tea by Pukka. Best left to brew strong then it also becomes sweet.

I found one that I love in Real Foods, it's apple and cinnamon and perfect at this time of year as it smells like Christmas.

There are lots of different ones out there that might work for you.

Yoga Tea do a liquorice one that is brilliant. Roibos is lovely, tastes quite a bit like "normal" tea imo. And hibiscus teas are lovely, fruity but with a nice strong flavour - Clipper do a lovely one, unfortunately it is called "detox" tea but it tastes lovely.

Thank you all. The liquorice one sounds nice - is it caffeine free? I've tried rooibos, found it a bit odd...

You'd probably like the Pukka detox - it's got a mostly fennel flavour to it. I used to love the After Dinner, too, but they've discontinued that.

I can't stand teas with a strong liquorice flavour. Far too sickly.

i find the pukka cinnamon quite repugnant, btw. That whole sickly thing, again.

It might be worth you trying plain fennel, for something cheap.

yes liquorice is caffeine free. its a shame that you can't buy sample boxes really isn't it.

Twinnings do a mix box but you can't pick flavours you want to try.

Well, I went shopping, and bought Twinings Liquorice, Twinings 'Digest' and Pukka 'Detox'.

To my surprise, I didn't really like the Liquorice one - maybe I brewed it for too long but I found it had an odd aftertaste (even tho it wasn't that strong itself).

The Twinings Digest one is pretty good, not very strong, I like all the flavours in it...

But the clear winner for me is the Pukka Detox, which has a wonderful array of very natural flavours, and gets nice and strong without tasting over-brewed. Also the most expensive, obvs , so I'll just have to ration myself to one a day. But at least now I can actually LOOK FORWARD to a cup of herbal tea, rather than feel hard-done-by and resentful! So thanks all :-)

thanks for feeding back. the detox one is nice I agree. lovely cardamom flavour.

I think the Pukka boxes are so pretty!

Yes, it is the cardamom flavour that I love