Review Fresh & Easy Decaffeinated Chocolate Flavored Black Tea
Fresh & Easy is a small chain of grocery stores that recently emerged in the western United States. They are prices are lower because of features such as having customers bag their own groceries. Another price-cutting tool is that they have their own house brand products, including their own coffees and teas. Their teas are blended specifically for the Fresh & Easy markets and sold nowhere else.
Unfortunately, they only carry two types of house brand loose tea, Silver Needles white tea and Dragonwell green tea. The rest of their house brand tea comes in teabags, packaged in boxes of twenty teabags. The boxes have brewing instructions on one side panel, but leave out the amount of water needed per teabag. The standard volume for a teacup is six fluid ounces, but some teas recommend eight, which the instructions should specify.
The teabags are the standard “saddlebag” style, each coming in its own cellophane freshness wrapper. This design allows for a better water-to-tealeaf contact than flat teabags, but it is not the best. Pyramid-style teabags are best if you cannot get loose-leaf tea because they allow tealeaves to expand during steeping. However, it is still possible to brew good tea with the saddlebag style if you do not over steep.
The Fresh & Easy Decaffeinated Chocolate Flavored Black Tea is very fragrant in the dry leaf. It is hard to identify the aroma of the as chocolate, but it does smell very sweet. The scent is reminiscent of chocolate without quite getting there, as if something is missing. When the tea is brewed and slightly sweetened, however, the chocolate flavor emerges, though very little tea flavor is present.
This would be a good tea for chocolate lovers whose dietary restrictions do not allow sugar. It is not a significant source of fat, carbohydrates, or calories, unless you add sugar or milk. Dieters and diabetics can therefore enjoy the taste of chocolate without fear of weight gain or raised blood sugar. The lack of tea flavor makes it a poor choice for someone who is a devoted black tea drinker.
brewed on Mar 20th, 2010
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