Showing posts with label healthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Baked Apple Pie


This dessert like tea is a combination of Oolong Tea, apple pieces, sultana raisins, cinnamon bits, almond flakes and vanilla bits. A deliciously, guilt free and healthy way to get the classic flavours of apple pie in your cup! It is a classic tea in my opinion in the since that you can drink it at any time of day and it will be appropriate with either breakfast, lunch, dinner and everything in-between. This tea is amazing with a little bit of Teaopia brown sugar and or honey and milk. It currently sells for $9.50 for 50 grams. If you were to consider buying a cup of it in the store for $2.50, than purchasing 50 grams or more is an excellent deal. Overall I would definitely recommend this tea to a beginner tea drinker or even an avid tea drinker, it is great for all. Time for some tea knowledge!

Oolong tea comes mainly from China and Taiwan. After tea leaves from the Camellia sinensis plant are plucked and withered, they are processed through careful drying, rolling and steaming and a short period of oxidation that turns the leaves from green to red brown. These teas produce a crisp, clean, refreshing cup that delivers a smooth even taste, some of which can be used for multiple infusions. Just remember if you are re-steeping your tea to let it steep longer than the first infusion. Fell free to leave a comment I am always interested in hearing what you have to say. 

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Tea Brewing & Kids Teas


Tea Brewing Instructions

There are three very important components to brewing the perfect cup of tea:
1 Water temperature
2 Length of brewing time
3 Amount of leaf to water

White Tea
1.5 tsp
80 C
2-3 min
Green Tea
1.0 tsp
80 C
2-3 min
Oolong Tea
1.0 tsp
90 C
3-4 min
Black Tea
1.0 tsp
100 C
3-4 min
Yerba Mate
2.0 tsp
90 C
6-8 min
Fruit Blends
1.5 tsp
100 C
6-8 min
Rooibos
1.5 tsp
100 C
6-8 min
Wellness Blends
1.5 tsp
100 C
6-8 min
All tea brewing instructions are based on an 8 ounce cup of tea. All information provided is a guideline only and adjustments may need to be made according to personal taste.


Kids Teas

Teaopia’s premium Kids Teas are a healthy and delicious alternative to sugary, caffeine filled drinks. Introducing healthy eating and drinking habits at a young age will put your children on the right track for the rest of their lives. Our no sugar added, caffeine free blends are high in antioxidants and taste great. Kids will love them hot or as iced tea and ice pops! Each blend is Rooibos based and the pack includes:

Cherry - Green Rooibos, apple pieces, cranberries, beetroot, heather flower blossoms, hibiscus and cherries.

Apple Pear - Green Rooibos, apple pieces, elderberries, beetroot, pear bits and sunflower petals.

Tropical Fruit Punch - Green Rooibos, apple and carrot bits, raspberries, barberries, orange peel, beetroot, coconut, rose and cornflower petals.

Strawberry Kiwi - Green Rooibos, pomegranate flowers, kiwi and strawberry bits.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Mudslide

Mudslide, the new favourite chocolate rooibos tea from Teaopia, is a divine combination of organic rooibos, banana bits, cocoa peel, walnuts, chocolate drops and lastly coconut. This tea is great at any time of the day and is very enjoyable when served with honey, white sugar, Teaopia’s brown sugar as well as milk. This tea is currently for sale at all 44 Teaopia locations across Canada. The wonderful thing about Teopia tea is that it tastes great hot or cold! Chocolate rooibos tea is a powerful antioxidant that helps clean out the immune system and is a great step on your journey to wellness. This tea helps those with sleeping problems, hypertension and irritability and is proven to slow down the natural aging process. This tea is caffeine free therefore is perfect for those who are very sensitive to caffeine and younger children.

Chocolate rooibos is a great mixing tea. Mudslide and amazing vanilla is a great combination when mixed together as a hot tea. Another classic combination would be Mudslide mixed with cocoa caramel, which are both in the same tea family. The chocolate in the mudslide and the caramel in the coca caramel mixes really well together because they are both rooibos tea’s and they have similar flavours added to them, for example caramel and chocolate.  

Mudslide is currently my new favourite tea! What’s yours? It should also be noted that outside of the chocolate rooibos tea there are many other suitable Teaopia tea options that both taste great and fulfill extraordinary nutritional needs.