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Last Updated: Aug. 13, 2018

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About Trader Joe's

Boxes of teabags on a shelf, mostly Trader Joe's brand, in a Trader Joe's storeTrader Joe's Tea Selection, Wilmington, DE, Winter of 2018, Photo © Alex Zorach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Trader Joe's is a chain of supermarkets that has its own brand-name which sells a vast array of products. Among other things, Trader Joe's has its own brand of tea.

Trader Joe's tea is mostly low-quality tea in flat teabags, but the company occasionally sells loose-leaf tea, as well as higher-quality tea in pyramid sachets. Most of their offerings are flavored teas, but they sell some single-origin pure teas. Some of the teas are available in organic versions, and over time the company has moved over to more organic options, discontinuing some of their older, non-organic-certified options. Many of Trader Joe's teas are experimental and are only available for short runs before being discontinued.

The stores sometimes stock other brands of tea as well, although they mostly stock their own brand.

Like most larger companies, Trader Joe's has a mixed record on sustainability. The supermarket carries a large portion of organic products, many at low prices, making organic foods accessible to a broader audience. Although the chain of stores is generally perceived as environmentally friendly, they have come under fire from Greenpeace, and have been dubbed Traitor Joe's, due to their selling of seafood produced in environmentally-damaging ways.[1,2] In response to this criticism, the company issued a statement that they would work with Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch to resolve these issues.[1]

References:

1. Ami Cholia, The Greenpeace vs. Trader Joe's Sustainable Seafood War, Huffington Post, July 13, 2009, Updated Aug. 13, 2009.


2. Traitor Joe's | Greenpeace

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Tchuggin' Okie
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90 / 100
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Harvest Blend Herbal Tea

Style: Herbal Tea – Region: Blend
Dec. 4th, 2023

"Harvest Blend" firmly ranks among the few best herbal teas I've had, and it's a store-brand product. A few options are out there for excellent, comparably delicious, fall-winter, "cinnamoney" seasonal herbal teas, but with the value of a low price point innate to Trader Joe's, I can't think of any better for the buck...

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65 / 100
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Organic Nilgiri Black Tea

Style: Black Tea – Region: Nilgiri, India
Oct. 26th, 2023

This was a strange black tea, in that the in-cup and dry-bag aroma differed more from the flavor than the great majority of black teas I've had. As it turns out, that's a good thing, because the aroma wasn't bad—just weak and weird. The smells were reminiscent of something I don't often associate with tea: mild ch...

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61 / 100
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Organic Green Tea

Style: Green Tea – Region: Nilgiri, India
Sep. 2nd, 2021

Landing at a Trader Joe's store in Tucson while on a photography road trip out thataway, I bought a box of this, as a presumably acceptable substitute for some of the truly terrible, off-brand and store-brand (here's looking at you, Great Value) bagged green teas offered at motels and campgrounds. It was, but still fa...

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69 / 100
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Mango Black Tea

Style: Fruit Black Tea – Region: Blend
Aug. 10th, 2021

Tropical fruit flavors are always a favorite, so (long overdue) I got some of this tea to try. My favorite mango-flavored black tea still is Hawaiian Islands Tea Company's "Mango Maui", but this comes in at a close second, and for now, is more readily available*.

Dry-bag aroma was more tea than mango. It's hard t...

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87 / 100
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With similar coloration of the outer box, as well as ingredients, I suspect this is the Trader Joe's imitation of Yogi's "DeTox" product. However, I can't compare the two directly, since I haven't (yet) tried the Yogi version. Still, this is the best wellness/medicinal tea I've had to date, one of the best herbal te...

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