This is the feed of all reviews of Herbal Tea on RateTea.http://ratetea.com/style/herbal-tea/6/http://ratetea.com/review/7158/http://ratetea.com/review/7158/Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:09:59 ESTThis is made with chunks of dried tropical fruits along with some watermelon flavoring. The result is flavorful and fruity. A nice summer tea, this would probably be very nice on ice. http://ratetea.com/review/7152/http://ratetea.com/review/7152/Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:29:54 ESTAs I've noted here before, peppermint is hard to mess up. It can be done, mind you—usually through neglect or delay in processing the plucked plant pieces—but fortunately, that's not common. Traditional Medicinals did not mess up their peppermint, which is sourced in unspecified part(s) of the Pacific Northwest. The dry-bag and in-cup aromas were decidedly above average for a decent-quality peppermint -- not exploding with ester, but stout, pleasing and soothing nonetheless. Where the smell shine...http://ratetea.com/review/7145/http://ratetea.com/review/7145/Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:41:53 ESTAt just under a quarter per teabag (per online price and retail at an H-E-B store in north Texas), this had better be at least a passably decent product. Most teas I've had made of chopped tree leaves (such as a mango-leaf tea I've got from Thailand) taste like...chopped tree leaves, as if one would run small limbs of yard trees through a chipper-shredder and drink a tea made from the stuff that results. This beats that handily. Until now, I never had moringa leaf in any form. The amount in the tea...http://ratetea.com/review/7143/http://ratetea.com/review/7143/Tue, 17 Feb 2026 01:26:45 ESTThis herbal tea comes in standard-sized stringed bags with a paper O Organics tag, all swaddled within a foil-lined paper pouch. That does a nice job of sealing and preserving the aroma, which is well-balanced and strong coming out of the dry bag, and which persists in-sup during steeping. Some flavor combinations simply mate well: chocolate with mint, peanut butter with grape jelly, and turmeric with ginger, based on the large number of turmeric herbal, black and green teas also using ginger as a fla...http://ratetea.com/review/7129/http://ratetea.com/review/7129/Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:55:52 ESTIt's back! Lipton Cinnamon Apple is available from a few grocery stores and is listed on Instacart, though curiously, not on Lipton's U.S. website yet. On the site, they provide only a recipe to make it yourself with Lipton Black tea: 2 cups water 2 bags Lipton® Black Tea 1 apple, cored and diced 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon ...with these two main steps: "1) Add water, Lipton® Black Tea bags, diced apple, and cinnamon to a saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Once boiling, imme...http://ratetea.com/review/7127/http://ratetea.com/review/7127/Sun, 30 Nov 2025 01:46:59 ESTThis long-named tea is (for now) online at World Market and eBay, and in-store at the former, but not Republic of Tea's (RoT's) own site. The typically (for RoT) cylindrical steel container had 36 small round pouches of tea stacked like potato chips inside. A sticker adorned the lid, and was labeled as, "LIMITED EDITION", perhaps just for this 2025 holiday season? Just in case that's true, I'm reviewing it soon after grabbing some, in time to be useful for other readers before it runs out. If this i...http://ratetea.com/review/7126/http://ratetea.com/review/7126/Wed, 12 Nov 2025 05:56:01 ESTEarly in elementary school, a classmate occasionally brought, showed off and ate crazy foods he made, just to gross out others. One was a bologna and whipped-cream sandwich. The mindset: different just to be different, and get animated reactions to the uniqueness of his bizarre culinary combinations. I thought of his sandwiches when seeing this product in a variety pack of Vahdam's relatively young line of turmeric-based herbal teas. How could such a thing not be disjointed and wholly self-contrad...http://ratetea.com/review/7123/http://ratetea.com/review/7123/Thu, 23 Oct 2025 01:01:52 ESTThis is the second tea I've found that is, "inspired by the Rocky Mountains," the other being (what else?) Murchie's Rocky Mountain Blend. They are vastly different! The latter is a robust black-tea mix. Tazo's is a purely herbal tea whose leading ingredient, true to title, is juniper berries. Next time I head to the San Juans of Colorado for a stretch of hiking, fishing and fall foliage, I'll have to bring both teas along to get more fully in the spirit of the surroundings. Junipers collectively a...http://ratetea.com/review/7122/http://ratetea.com/review/7122/Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:08:06 ESTThis is a lovely tea -- especially given its ingredients. I don't normally enjoy licorice or anise, but here they magically blend beautifully. This is going to go on my regular "to get" list.http://ratetea.com/review/7115/http://ratetea.com/review/7115/Fri, 03 Oct 2025 03:11:31 ESTAnother car in a train of new turmeric-based teas by Vahdam, "Turmeric Citrus Ginger Herbal Tea" takes "Turmeric Ginger Herbal Tea" and adds a little bit of citrus, but not by much. This makes it a little bit better, but not by much. The aroma and flavor are basically identical to "Turmeric Ginger Herbal Tea" (already reviewed), but for a mild addition of a decidedly lemon-dominant fruit component. The website states that the fruit flavor is bergamot (orange); however, it tastes much more lemony to m...http://ratetea.com/review/7109/http://ratetea.com/review/7109/Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:10:07 ESTThis is a weaker version of Turmeric Ginger that still somehow has chamomile as the main ingredient by mass, but not by aroma nor taste! As such, one may be quite disappointed if expecting turmeric-flavored chamomile. Instead the effect is of faintly chamomile-flavored ginger with turmeric for color and advertisement. The idea of a turmeric chamomile tea was intriguing, even with the "turmeric and chamomile, infused with herbs and spices," caveat stated in their web description. Looking in the bag, ...http://ratetea.com/review/7108/http://ratetea.com/review/7108/Sun, 10 Aug 2025 02:05:13 ESTAlthough I've seen it happen, peppermint tea is hard to mess up. One almost has to try: insert too many stems as filler, use old leaves that weren't dried right, or silently swap in weaker mints like spearmint. None of those are the least excusable, considering how common and relatively inexpensive peppermint is, and how easily it grows in many parts of the U.S. (even in the nutrient-poor red clay of central Oklahoma that is best used for making bricks). Straight peppermint should be a nicely profitabl...http://ratetea.com/review/7107/http://ratetea.com/review/7107/Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:14:38 ESTTurmeric seems to play best with ginger (even though ginger isn't my favorite herb, personally), so I figured to try this first out of a 4-type variety pack of turmeric-based Vahdam herbal teas. I'll review the others here too; they're packaged and cut similarly to this, as appropriate for the herb being blended with turmeric. Curiously, I found the variety box at a decent price at a Wal-Mart out in western Nebraska, after not seeing any Vahdam teas in a retail store, ever before. I suspect they have la...http://ratetea.com/review/7104/http://ratetea.com/review/7104/Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:28:22 ESTOutside one glitch (below), this was a reasonably good chamomile experience. As often noticed with this herb, the dry and in-cup aromas were weak, but the flavor came out rich, robust and undiluted by any of this tea type's usual flaws like filler use or poor-quality storage of the flower. The taste was a little more bitter than most chamomile teas I've had, but also somewhat buttery or savory—not to the level of McCormick, but still quite good. That is, between swallowing or spitting the material in ...http://ratetea.com/review/7102/http://ratetea.com/review/7102/Sun, 20 Jul 2025 01:49:04 ESTBeing biased against lemon in general, I was surprised for the better by this tea, for the most part. I expected a sour product, given the flavor, ingredients (lots of lemony stuff and the hibiscus/rose-hips blend seemingly standard for fruit teas). Instead, in both scent and flavor, this presented a smooth, sweet version of lemon with a herbal edge. It was almost enough to turn me on to the possibility that a lemon tea could be quite good. Except... Unfortunately it also tasted a bit antiseptic, an...http://ratetea.com/review/7101/http://ratetea.com/review/7101/Fri, 18 Jul 2025 04:07:40 ESTThis tea smells like blueberries (dry and wet). It tastes like a blend of hibiscus, apples and natural blueberry flavor, which are the first three ingredients. In order the other ingredients are: orange peel, rose hips, elderberries, acerola juice granules, licorice root, aloe vera juice concentrate, blueberries. Overall, it reminds me a lot of the Celestial Seasonings "Zinger" line, practically if not nominally including their True Blueberry blend. The Bigelow mashup is a little less tart (good!) and ...http://ratetea.com/review/7094/http://ratetea.com/review/7094/Mon, 23 Jun 2025 02:07:33 ESTOverall, this is a great choice for non-caffeinated iced tea, especially if brewed up over a few hours as a sun tea. I got this fine little blend at an H-E-B supermarket in the DFW Metroplex, where several teas reviewed here were purchases that can't be found at any of my usual haunts in Oklahoma. Unlike most teas in similarly sized boxes, these come in a package of 6 big tea bags, each suited for a whole pitcher. So as I'm wont to do, I tossed it into a tall glass tankard, closed it up, sat it out ...http://ratetea.com/review/7088/http://ratetea.com/review/7088/Thu, 22 May 2025 00:10:44 ESTFlavored chamomiles can vary a lot in quality, so I figured going in that this blend would have either too little citrus (lemon), rendering it a meekly flavored chamomile, or so much lemon that the chamomile was a distant whisper. Amazingly, they were well-balanced! This was especially true in the aromas, which were remarkably consistent from dry bag to cup to wet bag. However (ain't there always a "however," however?)... My main and nontrivial disappointment with this tea was its overall flavor weak...http://ratetea.com/review/7084/http://ratetea.com/review/7084/Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:30:49 ESTFrom my first sniff of this tea in TWG's Bangkok shop to the latest chug, I'm struck by the strong resemblance of this flavored rooibos to Murchie's "Cozy Caramel Rooibos." Both use high-quality rooibos with suitably strong flavorings (in this case, as described on TWG's website, "a secret TWG Tea blend of sweet French spices") to achieve much the same effect. The brew ends up a rich deep tan-red, clear, sweet and delicious! The main differences here are twofold: * A substantial element of French va...http://ratetea.com/review/7078/http://ratetea.com/review/7078/Fri, 21 Mar 2025 02:41:00 ESTHere's a blend of spearmint, peppermint and "field mint" (presumably wild mint), with a nice but unremarkable dry-bag aroma. The flavor was pleasant, smooth, and mild overall...too mild. As I've noted here before, I prefer the sharp, strong hit of a potent peppermint tea to all other mint teas; "potent" this was not, by any means. The post-steeping wet bag brought out the peppermint most, which is good for breathing in moist-minty air. However, in my tea world, the most notable and enjoyable part ...http://ratetea.com/review/7077/http://ratetea.com/review/7077/Sun, 16 Mar 2025 02:04:46 ESTHere's another Mighty Leaf offering obtained from a stay at College of DuPage's little on-campus hotel. I must say, few hotels (even including the likes of Hilton or Hyatt), or Air-BnB type places I've ever seen, provide such an expensive tea brand, and they had multitudes of several flavors. That was a nice touch! However, the per-bag online prices make me cringe (the lowest I found being $8.16 for 15-ct box at Office Supply, of all places). I'm guessing the hotel got it wholesale for a good bit less....http://ratetea.com/review/7072/http://ratetea.com/review/7072/Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:46:17 ESTI don't know enough to comment on how healthy this tea really is, but it is made of "schisandra berries, burdock, yellow dock, lemongrass, dandelion leaf, red clover, and natural essences", so draw your own conclusions. I have never heard of some of those before, but it tastes all right, and has a mellow, herbal tisane flavor.http://ratetea.com/review/7061/http://ratetea.com/review/7061/Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:26:56 ESTChamomile Blush will make one blush all right—not for the usual reasons, but from the shame or embarrassment of paying so much for such a weak, weird tea. The stated ingredients are simple enough: chamomile, spearmint, rose, and lemongrass. The result is a disjointed, odd combination of flavors that, in my experience, best resembles a very watered-down version of some rather unpleasant decongestant syrup I had to choke down as a child, when clogged with nasty gunk that messed up my senses of taste...http://ratetea.com/review/7052/http://ratetea.com/review/7052/Fri, 29 Nov 2024 09:38:44 ESTPeppermint tea is going to get a good rating from me in general, since I like the flavor so much, unless the leaves are stale and/or weak. This is neither—flavorful and smooth, with a nice dry- and wet-bag aroma, as well as smell and taste in-cup. A restaurant serving this tea, especially in a small cup to maximize potency, won't lose customers over it. The main drag on the rating here—and it's not a major one—is that they could have used a stronger peppermint, and/or more leaves in the bag (there...http://ratetea.com/review/7051/http://ratetea.com/review/7051/Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:48:42 ESTTeavana takes a blend of spearmint and peppermint, dashes in a dollop of lemon verbena, and offers it now in teabags. Given the apparently identical ingredients, I strongly suspect this is a renaming or reincarnation of the former "Mint Majesty Full Leaf Tea Sachets" rated here seven years ago by Bob Downs. It gave off a muted, somewhat citrusy mint aroma in the dry and wet bags, somewhat stronger in-cup, and was a smooth, friendly mint blend with lemon in taste. I can see how a tea such as this wou...