![]() ![]() I’ve been hard on this brand in this ranking but… they kind of suck. Pure Leaf Unsweetened (Taste 10) Dane Rivera This one has a slightly sour taste to it which I guess makes it more complex so that’s…something. I guess I just don’t like this brand! Pure Leaf has some sort of weird relationship with sugar because despite this being a whole 100 calories and 20 grams of sugar less than the Extra Sweet variety, it still ends up tasting like sweetened trash. Pure Leaf - Sweet Tea (Taste 7) Dane Rivera Even if you have a giant sweet tooth, trust me, you aren’t expecting this.ġ3. There are plenty of other sweetened black teas on the market, including one by this same brand, that taste a lot better than this. I’m not even sure this can legally be considered tea, it tastes more like sugar than anything else. Who is this for? Seriously, “extra sweet tea” is something that nobody needs considering your typical sweetened variety of black tea has as much sugar in it as a can of coke. Pure Leaf - Extra Sweet Tea (Taste 13) Dane Rivera Avoid at all costs.ħ-Eleven makes two varieties of bottled tea, this is the bad one. Sugar cubes, melted down into a brown liquid of death. The label shows some sugar cubes and tea leaves, and that’s exactly what this stuff tastes like. One of their teas, you’ll find, I thought was absolutely delicious, but this particular flavor is just bad. It wasn’t until this tasting that I discovered that 7-Eleven has its own branded products, from teas to snacks, to fruit juices. 7-Eleven - Sweet Tea (Taste 16) Dane Rivera Guayaki Organic Yerba Mate - Enlighten Mintġ5.Guayaki Organic Yerba Mate - BluePhoria.Arizona - Green Tea With Ginseng and Honey.7-Eleven - Green Tea Flavored With Ginseng And Honey.If it contained tea or some sort of steeped herb extract, I considered it fair game. I didn’t differentiate between sweetened, unsweetened, black, green, or herbal varieties. I had each tea served chilled (as that is how they are sold) and randomly poured for me. Here are the best bottled and canned teas, blind taste tested and ranked.įor this blind taste test, I tasted 16 different varieties of bottled and canned tea from local gas station convenience stores as well as 7-Elevens in my area. ![]() Unfortunately, this test revealed that bottled tea doesn’t really have that level of complexity - so if you like tea but have no f*cking clue what I’m talking about, fear not. That’s like saying “we have clear alcohol and dark.” And don’t even get me started on Chai and Matcha! Once you know all of that, it’s impossible to go back to being fine with “black or green” as a descriptor. If you’re a true die-hard tea drinker like me, you’ve probably been offered tea before and immediately asked “what kind?” Only to be told “we have black and green,” to which you asked once again, “but what kind?” It’s an annoying line of questioning but there is a whole lot of difference between something like a pearl jasmine green tea and a gunpowder Genmaicha, or a Darjeeling and an English Breakfast. When you brew tea for the proper amount of time (3 minutes for green, 5 for black, 7+ for anything herbal) the leaves and flowers evolve into a complex expression that can taste grassy, floral, vegetal, rich, malty, toasted, chocolaty, savory, bitter, and sweet - no sugar or artificial flavors required. Which is why bottled tea is usually packed with sugar. After it has chilled in a bottle for who knows how long, it loses that special essence that makes tea such a delicious drink. So when I set out to blind taste test every bottled and canned tea beverage we could find I knew it would be a good time.Īnd then I remembered something - tea is best enjoyed right after being brewed. Give it to me hot, give it to me iced, sweetened, unsweetened, I’ll drink it down. White tea, green tea, black tea, mate, rooibos, gossip, psychedelic tea, herbal tea… if you can steep it in boiling water and turn it into a beverage, I’ve probably drunk it and loved it. ![]()
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