What is Tea Anyway?

If you were to conduct a simple tea survey, you would discover that the majority of those surveyed do not know what tea is made of.  Tea is simply the leaves of many different plants, flowers, herbs, trees and fruits are picked or harvested. In many areas of the world tea can be made of just about anything, acting most of the time as a healing agent or disease preventive. Some cultures will use specific bark, roots or leaves to make a tea for a specific aliment or sickness. This herbal drink has been a staple in many cultures for thousand s of years acting as their means of medication. Tea does not always have to undergo the drying process to be served. Many herbs can be picked and steeped while still green, producing a unique flavor that a dried tea does not offer. Many teas are naturally decaffeinated, make sure to check your tea label for caffeine content when buying your tea k cups.

Four Most Popular Teas

The most favored teas on the market today are black tea, oolong tea, green tea and white tea. All four have completely different flavors and require different brewing temperatures and brewing times. Interesting enough all four can be made from the same bushes but undergo different processing resulting in extremely different flavors. The most consumed tea in the Untied States are a processed black tea that is served in specially designed tea bags. These teas are most often blends that include additives such as flavor enhancements. In the southern part of the U.S., sweet black tea is most often consumed consisting of large amounts of sugar or artificial sweeteners.

K Cups Tea Variety

There are several K Cup Tea manufactures on the market today. Each company offers a variety of flavors, tea types and herbal choices. Most often black tea k cups are purchased over flavored or herbal teas. Green teas have become more popular over the past five years due to the increasing discovery of the health benefits green tea has to offer. Gloria Jeans Coffees k cups, Timothy’s World Coffee k cups, Bigelow k cups, Celestial Seasonings k cups, Green Mountain k cups and Twinning’s k cups all have excellent k cups tea choices to choose from in their tea selections. Choosing from English breakfast, Chinese Green Tea, Chai Tea, Chamomile, Earl Grey, and Orange tea may make it difficult to narrow your choice to a particular tea of your choice. By purchasing a sample variety pack, you will be able to try the different k cup tea choices that are offered in the pack. This is a great way to find the tea k cup you prefer.

Now that your general tea knowledge has reached a new level, put it to use the next time you are purchasing K Cup Tea. Not only will you be more conscience of your k cup tea purchase, you will be able to recognize the different tea varieties available on the market.

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A hot cup of tea can be ready in a snap with this single cup brewing system. The tea is packed into a plastic cup with a foil top that creates an air-tight seal. When you want a cup of tea, all you need to do is put the K Cup tea into the brewer and put your mug under the dispenser. When the brewing system is started it pierces a hole in the top and the bottom of the cup so that pressurized hot water can flow through the cup and brew the tea. Clean up is just as easy, too. Just throw the K Cup away and wipe down the brewer with a damp sponge or towel.

K Cup teas are perfect for getting a hot cup of tea quickly. It takes just 60 seconds, versus filling a tea kettle, putting it on the stove and waiting for the water to come to a boil; or filling a cup with water and nuking it in the microwave before adding the tea bag and steeping the tea. It’s also a much more efficient use of energy than using a gas or electric stove to heat the water, which can take five to ten minutes; and if you want a second cup of tea, you’d need to reheat the water using even more energy.

The K Cups tea selection includes teas made by names tea drinkers know and trust. There are a wide variety of flavors, including green tea, Chai tea, Earl Grey, Sleep Time, English Breakfast, Lemon, Orange Spice, Organic varieties, Chamomile, and of course plain black tea.

In addition to a wide variety of hot teas to choose from, there are also several that are prepared specifically for making iced tea, including peach, raspberry, lemon and plain iced tea. Making iced tea is just as easy as making hot tea. Just fill a 16 ounce cup with ice and place it under the dispenser. Then place the K Cup tea into the brewing system and start brewing.

In addition to the K Cups tea and coffee K Cups selections, there are also K Cups hot chocolate, so it’s easy to make a cup of hot chocolate in less than a minute, too. This flexibility is especially beneficial when trying to serve a group of people their hot beverage of choice quickly.

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There are a plethora of K cup tea brands on the market today. While most of them would satisfy the average tea drinker not all of them are created equal. Here are some suggestions to help you choose the best brands available.

Celestial Sensations

Celestial Sensations was founded in 1969 when a group of young entrepreneurs decided to start a company that would promote a healthy lifestyle with flavorful herbal teas. Celestial Sensations are now offering their teas packaged in the K Cup technology and are available online at the Green Mountain Coffee Website. They offer a broad selection of teas from green teas to an original India spice chai tea. If you would like to try different ones a sampler pack is a available as well. My personal favorites are their ice tea selections they are wonderful!

Gloria Jeans Coffee

Gloria Jeans Coffee offers a variety of  teas that have gained respect as being some of the best. I would recommend any of the varieties they offer. A good place to start is to order their 22 K Cup Teas variety pack. You will receive 5 cups of Mango,  6cups of Peppermint Herbal, 6 cups of Earl Grey, and 5 cups of Serenity Green for $14.95.

Timothys Coffee

If you are looking for a wonderful chai tea try Timothy’s World Coffee. This chai tea is made from a traditional Indian tea with ginger, cardamon, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and other ground spices.  You will experience a  milky, sweet, spicy tea that will definitely warm you on a cold day!

For those cold winter nights and early mornings, or any time you want to add some soothing herbal teas to your K Cups tea selections. You can be assured that these company’s will deliver quality selections and give you something to boast about to your friends.

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