All About Tea
Fruit Teas
Fruit teas generally have a dried apple and/or pear base that the other fruits and flavourings are added to arrive at the desired mix for flavour, colour, aroma and degree of sweet and sour.
A true fruit tea has no caffeine in it and as such is a great alternative to hot beverages that do contain caffeine. The natural sweetness in fruit means that more often than not sugar is not required which keeps the calorie count down. Of course if you like your fruit tea sweet then sugar or honey can be added to your required taste.
Loose fruit teas tend to require longer to infuse than black teas as the dried pieces of fruit are quite large and dense so the hot water has to work harder to release the aroma, colour and flavour. Often the aroma comes in the first couple of minutes and the colour slightly after with the full taste sometimes taking as long as 5-10 minutes to be drawn out.
Our fruit teas are all suitable for making iced tea for the Summer served with the tinkle of ice cubes. I have even known the Basket of Berries to be used to make cakes!
To enjoy the colour serving in a tall glass can enhance the experience of drinking fruit tea.
Cotswold Tea's range of fruit loose teas all come in a red bag with a gold clip to seal the bag that can be reused a number of times to keep the tea fresh.
Currently the Just Fruit infusion range includes the following
Basket of Berries, Apple Dream, Lemon, Blackcurrant, Tropical, Turkish Apple and newly added to the range Strawberry and Kiwi.
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Dear Customers
With this long dry spell we have had keeping hydrated is a big challenge but somehow tea always comes up to the mark, be it a rousing cup of Assam or a refreshing light cup of Darjeeling. I have been resting up on the deck of my narrow boat with many a cup of Darjeeling this last month in between packing the new teas like cazy of course!
As it comes arround to the summer holidays I know a number of you just can't go away without your own tea so make sure you get your order in before you set off for your well earned rest.
Have a great summer and take care!
Regards
Kay Healey
Your Personal Tea Merchant
14th July 2010
Wellesbourne
Warwickshire
CV35 9NQ
Telephone
01789 555023