Mango Ceylon
This page is for the caffeinated version. See also Mango Ceylon Decaf.
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Commercial Description
This favored tea is light, sweet & intoxicatingly fragrant. Mango & sunflower blossoms are blended with superior Ceylon tea leaves to produce an uplifting cup. Wonderful served over ice.
Ratings & Reviews
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80 Aroma: 9/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 3/5Tchuggin' Okie (455 reviews) on Dec. 23rd, 2025
As with most teas from RoT, they come in disc-shaped pouches with tea-holding compartments about 3/4 inch in radius from center. That ain't much space for tea, and doesn't allow a lot of room for inflation of the wet tea either. They come stacked like Pringles chips in a steel can that has a paper label pasted on. Cracking off the steel and plastic lid releases a really nice, well-balanced dry aroma that is more complex than the flavor, and seems to mix mango with pineapple, banana and apple. Since they don't specify the "natural flavor" it could be anything. The third and last ingredient (sunflower petals) seems to work well with the fruit flavor(s).
As for taste: all of this is predicated on doubling up the tea to two bags, because as I've noted with other RoT offerings, they put about half the product in a bag as many other companies, and they're small bags. The can of Mango Ceylon (subtitled Metabolic Frolic Tea) had 50 pouches in it, so for me, "value" is based on 25 bags at normal price, or about 45¢ per bag. That's costly. So, even though I liked this tea a lot, and despite the fact my metabolics didn't frolic, the corporate skimping on quantity drags on the value and overall ratings.
Being a fan of tropical fruits of all sorts, it would take a sorry base tea to ruin the experience for me. Fortunately this was a fairly robust Ceylon that doesn't let the fruit flavor overpower it. However, steep it longer than about 5 minutes and it starts to get bitter enough to overcome the positives in the flavor. [Shorter steeping is another reason to double up.] When doing that, it's a mellow but fairly robust fruit black tea, again mostly mango, but now with more of an apple-peach bent. It's a fun, high-quality tea to drink as long as you don't think too hard about the retail price. If RoT just did normal, Celestial- or Bigelow-capacity bags with this blend, it would be in the top 10% of my ratings for all flavored black teas.
80 Aroma: 6/10 Flavor: 5/5 Value: 5/5Brytta Sóþword (339 reviews) on Feb. 11th, 2015
Surprisingly good! Though the flavor is better than the aroma (which is a bit weak), this is among the best blends between fruit and black tea that I've tried. Very smooth, neither bitter nor overly sweet. There's the hint of raisin-like flavor, but it's also properly balanced and not dominant. This cup also provides a healthy buzz.
If I was a need-my-caffeine-every-morning junky, this is the kind of tea I could see myself drinking regularly to satisfy that need. At less than $10 for 50 bags, I may actually buy a container of this and leave it at work just because I like sharing. Also, I think people trying to switch from coffee to tea would find this tea a relatively smooth way to do that.
60 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 2/5spaflam (180 reviews) on Feb. 26th, 2014
I like the convenience of RoT's round brown tea bags - and Mango Ceylon is a fruity, good-tasting choice - but I much prefer the ginger peach. Makes a good iced tea.
47 Aroma: 4/10 Flavor: 3/5 Value: 3/5Alex Zorach (1453 reviews) on Feb. 6th, 2010
I had this from a teabag in Panera bread. It could be that it wasn't terribly fresh (I wouldn't put that past Panera) but I was disappointed by the weak black tea presence in this tea. Some people might like that though as this tea is very smooth and has very little bitterness or astringency. I took it as having no "kick" however. It's fruity and the aroma suggests sweetness but it just comes across as bland to me.
The fruit aspect is very pleasant, but not terribly complex...it has a slighty artificial-seeming quality, like fruity candy rather than real fruit. It lacks the piney complexity of the aroma of a fresh or even a good dried mango. But it's not unpleasantly artificial the way some teas are.
This tea is relatively inexpensive so I can't complain too much about the value. Overall I'm disappointed: Republic of Tea has much better teas.
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| Style: | Fruit Black Tea |
| Region: | Blend |
| Caffeine: | Decaffeinated |
| Leaf: | Teabag |
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