Sunshine Lemon Flavoured Rooibos Tea

• Country of Origin: South Africa
• Region: Cederberg
• Shipping Port: Cape Town
• Grade: Choice Grade #1
• Altitude: 1500 - 2500 feet above sea level
• Manufacturer Type: Fermentation turns the leaves from green to deep red and gives a slightly sweet note.
• Cup Characteristics: The lemon invigorates the rooibos taste. Simply wonderful hot or iced and dressed with a slice of lemon.
• Infusions: Reddish orange to full color (depends on brewing time and quantity used).
• Ingredients: Luxury rooibos, Calendula petals, Lemongrass, Natural flavors.

Lemons. All refrigerators have them. Most of us don’t give them much thought. Not so Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. In his poem “Ode to a Lemon”, he describes the juice of the fruit,

Unrefined gold …
… the most intense liqueur
of nature, unique, vivid, concentrated

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. The juice of lemons is at once sour, piquant and as it was so eloquently put, intense. So what do you think we do when we encounter a fruit with a flavor profile as complex and powerful as that of the lemon? We blend it into a tea of course! These times we’ve taken the natural essence of sun kissed lemons and blend it with a pure South African Cederberg Rooibos. The result is a caffeine free delight. The cup presents lemons, exceptionally smooth Rooibos tones wonderfully offset by the tart citrus edge of the fruit. Were Pablo Neruda alive today there is no doubt he would have composed a poem about this tea. It may have gone something like this:

Wow, that’s yummy stuff.

200 ml (about 7 ounces) of brewed Rooibos contains the following nutrients:

Iron (Fe) - Essential for transport of oxygen in the blood - 0.07 mg per 200 ml.

Potassium (K) - Assists certain metabolic functions - 7.12 mg per 200 ml.

Calcium (Ca) - Necessary for strong teeth and bones - 1.09 mg per 200 ml.

Copper (Cu) - Assists certain metabolic processes - 0.07 mg per 200 ml.

Zinc (Zn) - Necessary for normal growth and development of healthy skin - 0.04 mg per 200 ml.

Magnesium (Mg) - Assists a healthy nervous system and other metabolic processes - 1.57 mg per 200 ml.

Fluoride (F) - Necessary for strong teeth and bones - 0.22 mg per 200 ml.

Manganese (Mn) - Assists metabolic processes and bone growth and development - 0.04 mg per 200 ml.

Sodium (Na) - Necessary for fluid and acid-base balance - 6.16 mg per 200 ml.