Posts filed under ‘brands’
(ATTENTION) Fully Loaded Tea now in the USA
For any American readers just wanted you to know that fullyloadedteas is now shipping to the states, you should be able to find it now in specialty and natural food stores. check them out there teas are great. They make some great herbal and fruity teas inspired by their childhood in Siberia. Fullyloadedteas is a Canadian company located in British Columbia. My favorite blends are Citrus Spike Black Tea and Gogi Force Green Tea.
FullyLoadedTea
Fullyloadedtea is a Vancouver based tea company that specializes in fruit blended teas it was started by two sisters Katya Popoff and Olga Lenova with the idea of sharing the teas that they grew up with back in Siberia, the revelation came to them when they were in Europe studying, they had gone to a tea house in Paris and asked them selves why did tea have to be so fancy. That’s when they decided to come back to Canada and start their business. They started planning and researching the industry in 2006 and started displaying at trade shows in March of 07. The packaging and clever descriptions of the teas set them apart from other brands at the Los Angeles and Vancouver trade shows. All the teas, fruits and other ingredients are imported and inspected in Quebec where they are also blended and packaged.
Their teas are becoming more common in retail stores and grocery stores, you can also find them at amazon.com and via there own online store if you want to know where you can get some of these teas go to there website and click on “where to buy”. I purchased two flavors from them and am enjoying them. I got the gogi force green tea and the tomato rebel black tea, which is allot nicer then it sounds. When you order you also get samples of all there other blends to try. Which is a great extra.
Domo Tea
I gave a bit of a review of this stuff before but that didn’t seem like enough so here is a full one and with a little background on matcha itself.
Domo teas are a matcha blend that comes in three flavors (at the moment) you has ginger kiss, vanilla cloud, and chocolate ecstasy. They are made with evaporated natural cane sugar juice and skim milk powder, which goes well as a latté or in a smoothie among other things and has only 20 calories per scoop (I’m not a calorie counter so this doesn’t mean anything to me). Domo is a Canadian company started by two women from Vancouver Tammy Olsson and Anne Yeo it can be found in western and central Canada and will be in Ontario and Québec soon but until then you can order from there website (US and international as well). There website also has a recipe section so you can make smoothies and some cocktails as well.
I thought I should also give a little bit of background on what matcha is so you know what you’re drinking. Matcha is a Japanese preparation of the carnellia sisensis plant by grinding the whole leaf, which is different from other types; this gives it the most caffeine out of all the teas. The tea is ground and the more finally it is ground the higher the grade is Tencha grade is the only grade that can be considered matcha all others are just considered pulverized. It can take up to an hour to grind 30 grams of the leaves so matcha is usually more expensive then other teas. It is produced in Japan in the Uji region of Kyoto, the Nishio region of Aichi along with Shizuoka and Kyushu. The plants used are shade grown and are covered with blankets two weeks before picking to protect them from any direct light. Matcha also has some of the highest antioxidant count out there with 70 times that of orange juice (fresh I assume) and many times that of green tea. Hoped you learned something about matcha and go out and try some of those domo blends there just great and one glass and your fine for the whole day it doesn’t make you all jittery like coffee.
Ineeka teas
a new take on the tea bag
Ineeka teas have come out with a revolutionary new design for their tea bags. They are not loose per say they come in pouches but the pouches have small cardboard arms on either side, you place these on the sides of the cup so it sits in the cup. By setting the arms on the cup, you tare open the bag thus making the tea loose. The bag acts more like a sieve then anything else, I like this idea it gives you the loose tea experience without having to remember your tea ball or have an infuser. Its 9.99 for a pack of 14, which is a bit pricey, and you can find it at whole foods; I am not sure where I can find it being in Manitoba.
Fuze Iced Green Tea: Review
Fuze is now offering a green tea flavored with honey, it also comes with natural antioxidants and ginseng. Along with the usual vitamins in all health drinks (C, E, B3, B5, B6,B12). It has the usual green tea taste to it and the honey isn’t really a flavour so much as just some sweetness, it comes in a plastic 547ml bottle and runs for about 2.50.
Tetley iced tea: review
Hey it was a hot day and I was in need of something cool and refreshing so I went over to the Mac’s and went to get myself a drink. Now I’ve been finding that every thing is now becoming filled with aspartame and soy and I’m leery about them. So now I check the ingredients, most have glucose-something-tose, and tones of corn syrup again not really what I’m looking for. Then I came across Tetley iced tea and was blown away the ingredients list was short and they were all things I knew and could pronounce. No soy or corn syrup just sugar cane for sweetener. The drink comes in a “473ml single-serve bottles and 1.89L plastic bottles”, and comes in; Iced Green Tea, Iced Green Tea and Pomegranate, Iced Black Tea and Mediterranean Lemon, Iced White Tea and Blueberry (I had the black Mediterranean which hit the spot). you can purchase them at Safeway and Sobeys along with some other gas station in Canada. The single-serve came to about $2.65 or so.
