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Taking a look at these items will help you narrow down the many choices in flavored tea. * The tea variety If you're partial to one variety of tea (black, oolong, white or green) you'll likely want to choose your flavored teas from these favored varieties. * The quality of the tea Choose only loose tea that is from the highest tea grades and from early tea pluckings. Quality teas come from gardens that are able to process the tea by hand, ensuring the best flavor. * The quality of the flavorings The best flavored teas use only natural flavorings. Teas flavored with artificial flavors will taste fake and be of inferior quality. Another way to determine the best tea blends for you is to consider the additions that blend best with the particular type of tea you like to drink. For example: Black tea is the strongest of all teas, so it can handle more pungent and stronger flavors that might overpower white or green teas. Flavors like chocolate, coffee and strong fruits like currants and plums are delicious with black tea, but might be too strong for white or green tea. On the other hand, delicate flavors like mango and pear might be overpowered by black tea. Green tea has a very natural and plant like tea, with a mild sweetness. This means that green tea can be paired with nearly any fruit flavor. In addition, green tea works beautifully with many herbs and spices, like mint and ginger, as long as they're not too pungent. White tea is very light and delicate and can be easily overpowered. On the other hand, it can also be beautifully enhanced by the right fruit or floral. Melon, licorice, pears, peaches, jasmine and roses are all very good pairings with white tea. Oolong tea is a bit more difficult to predict because it has very complex flavors on its own. Much of the flavor of the oolongs is dependent upon how long the tea is fermented, as some oolongs are fermented long enough to be very close to a black tea, while others are fermented for a shorter time, making them closer to a green tea. Many oolongs have a bit of a peach flavor, and flavoring them with peach pieces enhances this natural flavor quite nicely. Some oolong teas also have a nutty flavor, making them pair well with nut flavors like almond. In general, oolong teas can always be counted on to pair beautifully with medium bodied fruit flavors, like oranges and apples. In addition, they pair very well with medium spices like cardamom and cinnamon. Finally, oolong teas can also be flavored with some florals, like rose, jasmine and orchid, as long as the oolong tea itself is not too strong in flavor. Of course, many of us shop for flavored tea simply by seeing what's available from our favorite tea shop and choosing the flavors that sound good to us. Choosing our favorite tea blends this way help us to choose based on the varieties and blends that our favorite tea merchants are selling. This is a good way to choose simply because it helps ensure that we're getting the best quality in flavored teas. If you trust your tea merchant, then you know he carries only the best. Therefore, if I choose the flavors that sound good to me from what he has to offer, I'm relatively certain that I'll love what I've purchased. For example, I recently bought a coconut pouchong tea, which is not a flavor combination I would have put together on my own. However, it was a wonderful and refreshing tea that I have really enjoyed. Flavored teas are available in every imaginable combination of tea and flavoring; some even with multiple flavorings. For example, one of my all time favorite teas is pineapple ginger green tea. When you consider all the possible combinations, it seems impossible to try them all in your lifetime. For those of you who are on the adventurous side, here are three of the wildest flavored teas I've heard of : * Coffee flavored tea (for those who like the best of both worlds, I suppose) * Chocolate and rose petal tea * Thyme Tea Now, none of these teas are on my list of "must try" teas for the future, but to some of you they might sound quite appealing. I'm a fruit and spice tea person, personally, but I'm open to suggestions by my favorite tea companies. Finally, it's not a bad idea to choose your flavored teas for their health benefits. We all know that green and white teas contain the highest level of natural anti-oxidants of any teas. So, combining these tea with other very healthy and anti-oxidant laden botanicals gives you a real health and anti-aging powerhouse. Consider a green or white tea flavored with the following products for health reasons: * Pomegranate or blueberry these two fruits contain the most powerful anti-oxidants available in any foods. * Cinnamon a powerful metabolism booster, cinnamon in tea can help you lose weight * Melon Melon contains GliSODin, an anti-oxidant that is powerful in its own right, but is even more special because it has been shown to help your body make its own anti-oxidants. * Ginger great for those with stomach ailments, regular consumption of ginger has even been shown to help heal ulcers. So, choose your flavored teas using the method that suits you best, but by all means choose some flavored teas to add to your daily drinking repertoire. You'll never tire of the many wonderful tastes you can find in flavored tea. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon M. Stout is Chairman of the Golden Moon Tea Company. 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