Buying TEA At The Grocery Store - What To Look For...And Avoid!

live city family what is up it is art and bobby back in the grocery store to do a video all about tea tea is actually the most popular drink in the world it's also been a very popular request so i thought we should dive into it because there's a lot more than meets the eye just like gi joe right because we've done a video about this stuff over here coffee and coffee is very interesting the thing is i don't drink that much coffee coffee is my splurge on the weekends but tea i drink every day sometimes twice a day coffee is weird it makes me feel like sweaty and my tum my stomach can get kind of upset when i drink black coffee but i really love tea so before we dive into this video you know the drill like subscribe share all those lovely things but better yet there's a bell icon right below the video you're going to want to enable all notifications because we have so much content going live every week you do not want to miss out okay let's talk about t art who's singing this song is blasting here this is a really popular 90s song dunkin sheep art is like a human shazam all right let's get going here so we look at the walls of tea this is the tea that i actually grew up with i used to call it lipton special and this is not lipton but it is england's number one tea pg tips all right what's england's number one toothpaste uh hegelian white a british toothpaste oh that's a null reference so this is the kind of tea i would not recommend uh eating or drinking because when you open up this it's gonna be a tea bag in there the tea bag is made up of ground there you find particles of tea and when you're drinking tea the whole leaf is where it's at you talk about beef and grating it from like prime choice to uh select this would be the low quality one because think about the tea making process this is the fine particles that i kind of joke about would fall to the ground of the factory they would sweep it up and put it in the tea bags typically this fine ground uh tea bag would also over steve very quickly you're gonna get very bitter notes from here so you don't want that so if you don't want this if you don't want england's number one tee what do you want you want check this out this look at this three words right here whole leaf tea why is that important well let me take this off i hope they show it on the box here well there you can kind of see it there this is the actual whole leaf of the tea and that is very important because tea bushels grow you know out in asia it can be africa and you want to get that whole tea lead as soon as you start to grind it up into smaller particles you're losing some of the quality so holes where it's at in terms of quality and flavor the thing is now that we know what to buy what do you want to do in terms of getting organic versus conventional if i go back here to coffee we talked about this in the video organic doesn't really matter in terms of your body but it matters in terms of the environment coffee beans are one of the most highly sprayed agricultural products in the world but the coffee bean is protected by the cherries so it never really gets into the actual bean but it's horrible for the environment tea leaves on the other hand don't have a protective cherry they spray the leaf that goes directly into the leaf so i highly encourage you to get organic but keep in mind organic doesn't mean it's not sprayed that is a very very uh common misconception here at the grocery store it just means it's sprayed with usda organic approved sprays the problem is a lot of teas come from asia or other parts of the world and they don't enforce other kind of rules like we do so they can spray the heck out of their conventional tea leaves whereas here we wouldn't use certain uh pesticides or herbicides that are very strong in china for example they might so i highly recommend you get organic tea and we can just look here and start with mighty leaf it's organic we look at something like tazo is that organic some of that's organic so very very important going back to whole leaf versus ground up whatever i would actually do is go around the corner to the bulk section or go to a tea shop and i could see it better actually these are the whole tea leaves and i would buy it in the bulk section because you can get as much as you need for a way cheaper price this is organic jasmine my favorite for 43 dollars a pound but if you compare that to getting it in a pouch like that it's gonna be way cheaper you can go on amazon and get your own empty tea bags and fill it up i'll put the link down below for that because i have them in the kitchen all the time but this is the kind of stuff you want to get not the ground up ones let's take a quick break from the video and thank today's sponsor drop drop is one of the easiest and the only reward apps that i use because you earn points for doing shopping at tons of brands you would do every day like instacart walmart apple and the points you earn get 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cobbler it sounds too good to be true right this is organic which is good and it's a black tea look at the ingredients here so it's organic black tea natural flavors organic apple which is good and natural flavors you're getting a double dose of natural flavors guys nine times out of ten they're always gonna have natural flavors and we talked about this happy made a whole video about it natural flavors really are another word for artificial flavors you want to get rid of that and not put that in your body but there is a savior here in the form of check this out nume t nume makes some really high quality teas here and they use real ingredients so this is nume it's organic so winning rooibos tea with earthy vanilla tones that makes me nervous because i wonder what they're using look at this they're using cloves cinnamon ginger cardamom nutmeg that's what you want to see that's high quality stuff and i think it's the case for all of these teas right here so flavored teas are tricky nume is a good one but nine times out of ten the other ones are gonna be bad now if you're serious uh tea drinker and you want high high health benefits check this out this is matcha green tea powder this is the whole tea leaf ground up so there's more nutrients in here but it's got to be organic once again because it's the whole tea leaf but i also would go for something that is ceremonial grade so it's expensive this one right here is 23. all right but it's ceremonial grade it's the highest quality matcha you can get you have to put it into some water and froth it up i actually don't love the flavor because it's a little too earthy for me but it's really really good quality stuff and then look down here these are danger zone warning roll robinson ruining right these are shy latte mixes you think about the stuff you get at starbucks we actually did a starbucks review and talked about the chai tea latte and they're loaded with sugars and stuff like that so this is a classic chai tea latte here black tea they tell you to put equal parts water or milk with the mix and they're telling you to put three quarters of a cup of the concentrate here we look at the ingredients and there's natural flavors once twice probably actually using vanilla extract that's interesting but how much sugar that's what i get worried about so there's 24 grams of added sugar here per serving so 24 grams 24 grams of sugar is gonna be six teaspoons of sugar in here that's very very high but this is brand new this just came on the shelf like i stocked it before we start the video this is chai concentrate sugar-free unsweetened uh how do you say that bhakti look at the ingredients for this that's what you want to see tea ginger and spices i would add my own sweetener to this maybe in the form of monk fruit stevia or if you want a paleo sweetener you can do cocoa coconut sugar or you could even do a little bit of honey that'd be great before we finish this aisle and go over to the tea drinks two more outstanding items here is this punch it on this in case you want your green tea fixed that's clean you can get this for the road that doesn't require any hot water this is tea crystals that are water soluble so there's just one ingredient here it's organic which is amazing too so you can pour this into cold water or just warm water while you're traveling and have a really high quality tea fix and then if i come over here we've talked about this company before four sigmatic normally an online only company now has stuff in the grocery stores and while i like them check it out it's not tea in the traditional form but it's elixirs with functional mushrooms mushrooms and cacao mushrooms and turmeric it's expensive but i think next week they have their semi-annual sale and i have a promo code on top of that so wait for that sale because i also make my protein powder that's plant-based that i love very very cool to see that in the grocery store all right let's evacuate this aisle and head over to the drinks we've arrived at the wall of teas here man there's a lot of options let's start with the og right back in the day when i didn't know as much as i know now or when i wasn't woke like i am i should say i used to drink this stuff honest teeth and i was lured in by the fact that it's organic and i love peach flavor stuff but anytime i see peach flavored stuff i get nervous because how do they get the peach flavor in there well natural and organic flavor so that's not ideal how much sugar is in here 15 grams of sugar and a one bottle portion here so we got the natural flavors pretty par for the course and 15 grams of sugar is almost four teaspoons of white refined sugar going in here four teaspoons you guys is scary think about how much that is not good right so but come come over here art you might be like no i'm gonna be good i'm gonna go the organic just black tea or just green tea i'm gonna grab it you're out of the store right here's the deal yeah there's no added sugar but read the ingredients with me okay it looks good looks good they're adding natural flavors to here why are they doing that relying on the natural flavor of the tea leaf to me that's bonkers which is why we always preach on this channel read the ingredients on the back you cannot lie there the front can be very very misleading but the back can't right so come down here i actually haven't had this yet it's herba mate and it's got a high uh caffeine concentrate but they have flavored ones blue phoria mint and they all have natural flavors so i would actually stick with the original and still the best regular herba mate because number one there's zero sugar or no i'm sorry oh my gosh look at this there's 10 sugar wow they add cane sugar to that interesting they gotta have a plain one now let me see traditional there we go traditional unsweetened there we go two ingredients thank you it did fool me which is why you have to read ingredients so i would go with that but the flavored ones are not going to be something you want do you want to see with flavors that actually has real ingredients yeah okay well here's what you want to do you want to go to this guy this i've never seen this brand before this is sparkling tea it's called best teas and i got nervous when i saw but i just checked the ingredients before we started here look at this carbonated water black tea lemon juice concentrate even for an ingredient like pomegranate here i thought for sure that have natural flavors look at this they're using pomegranate juice concentrate i'm totally fine with that for a drink like this and lime juice that's fantastic now how do we get flavored with sweetness but no sugar well these guys here who make zevia these soda we talked about the other week are now making tea the only issue is this number one we look at how much sugar is added zero why because they're using stevia which is great right but they're also using natural flavors here's the deal though i'm gonna be a little lenient today i'm in a good mood because listen there aren't many sugar-free options here so if you want something that has a sweetness you can have the natural flavors once in a while i'd rather you have natural flavors and zero sugar then no natural flavors and 16 grams of sugar right not ideal but way better and here's a local one this is unsweetened tea with green tea and lemon mmm tea the name says it all right art look at the ingredients right there that's what you want to see water green tea and lemon and it's local and it's local right got to support the local businesses so there are options now you don't just think of like the arnie palmers or the long island iced teas i would not drink those those are sugar bombs but guys that's it between tea in the bag loose leaf tea and tea drinks there's a lot to know but once you know to look for organic unsweetened no flavors and that's about it you're good to go like subscribe share the only way this channel keeps growing is by you spreading the love another great 90s song this has been one of the best soundtracks we've done here in a while uh you guys we got two more videos going below us right now but my man art and i will see you very soon until then we stay unto you like we always do hashtag keep on cooking mad love and peace

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Length: 14min 58sec (898 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 23 2020