Familiar ingredients, and a familiar taste: weirdly like nothing at all. Passionflower is really carrying the team, with lemon balm, licorice, and chamomile on the bench. Sorry kids, stick to your sippy cups of scotch, this is adult tea. There’s a big warning in bold on this box: KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN. Despite the scent, the flavor is mellow and perfect for ending a long day overthinking how to respond to that one email. If you’re prone to lying in bed thinking about packages lost by USPS, your cat’s fading eyesight, and what will happen to your health care in the near future, well, this is for you. In wine, they call that the “nose.” There’s also passionflower-an actual flower and not the name of a bath oil your mom bought from the last Avon lady on Earth-known to chill the nerves. But the scent is much stronger than the taste. After a 10-minute steep, there’s a pleasant funky-earthy stink to this organic tea, plus notes of gym socks. If you’re really serious about this sleeping business, you need to skip over the plain Nighty Night and hit the Nighty Night Valerian instead. Traditional Medicinals' Nighty Night Valerian Combined with Seinfeld reruns and a few glasses of wine, I was asleep in three minutes flat. Verdict: Easy to drink and perfect after a meal, when maybe you don’t want intense flavors chiming in. Tulsi, lavender, and limeflower are other players, but they’re all nearly invisible, like a mischievous rabbit who follows Jimmy Stewart around. There’s a hint of chamomile, but just barely. Relaxing oatflower, the main ingredient, is probably why. Otherwise, the flavor is so low-key you can barely taste anything. The longer you steep the Night Time tea, the more the licorice flavor comes out (in a lightly spiced way-not like the disgusting candy). They’re organic, too, which is a bonus because I like my herbs squeaky clean. I’m a fan of all Pukka teas, mostly because the name reminds me of the giant rabbit from Harvey, but also because they’re never bitter in the way bagged tea can be. In this very unscientific test, I yawned my way through the workday to find the sleepiest and most delicious bedtime tea, though, to be honest, some of those meetings were just very boring. Some tasted like gym socks, others like floral arrangements in a funeral parlor, and a few managed to have no flavor whatsoever. ![]() I kept that in mind-and so should you because this isn’t medical advice, dudes-as I sipped and snoozed through as many teas as I could find. Herbalists will note that human bodies react very different to herbs: some might even feel energized by valerian, while others might conk out after a watery cup of chamomile.
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