Santa Cruz Organics Iced Tea: Fair Trade Focuse
October 12, 2009 by Tania
Filed under Label Reading PHD, Worth Sharing
By Tania Reuben
Santa Cruz Organics, known for their wonderful juices has created a line of yummy organic, fair trade brewed teas. The teas are flavored with real fruit. I enjoyed it in mango, raspberry, and lemon flavor. It also comes in peppermint, which was decidedly not my favorite. Odd, because peppermint tea is delightful to me hot. Organic Juices are a natural flavor source and sweetening component. I say component because like most ready to drink teas, they do have added sugar, which I’d love to see eliminated all together or replaced with agave.
Have you ever read the ingredients in Lipton Ice Tea (Lemon for this analysis); water, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, sodium hexamet(something), ascorbic acid, honey, natural flavors, phosphoric acid, sodium benzocte, potassium sorbate, calcium disodium edta, carmel color, yellow 5, blue 1.
Compare that to Santa Cruz Brewed Mango Tea (water, green, black and white tea, organic evaporated cane juice, organic white grape juice concentrate, organic mango puree, organic pineapple juice concentrate, organic natural peach flavor and citric acid.
These teas are a much better choice for Snapple and Lipton Ice Tea fans from the perspective of ingredient analysis.
I love that the teas are fair trade certified. Additionally they contain green tea, which is renowned for it’s health benefits. If you are going to enjoy a glass of ice tea, why not get a few health benefits too. Green Tea has been studied to be effective as an anti-carcinogen, lowering stress levels and boosting immune function, to mention a few.
If you don’t have time to brew your own ice tea, this is marked improvement over conventional selections.
A 32 oz bottle retails around $3.
In celebration of fair trade month Santa Cruz Organics is giving 3 lucky readers a prize pack of Tea. Each winner will receive two bottles of each of Tea Flavor (lemon, peppermint, raspberry and mango).
THE WINNERS – Dymphna, Tamara & Vicki – Congratulations!!!
Santa Cruz Organic Tea
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