Lavender Cancer Fighting Tea from Georgia Tea Company

CancerFightingLavenderTea Information:

Leaf Type:  White & Green Teas & Rooibos

Where to Buy:  Georgia Tea Company

Tea Description:

Our signature blend, designed to boost the immune system and helps fight cancer. Boosts interferon production to help the body fight off infection while going through chemotherapy. Contains high concentrations of Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). Made with only the best white, green and rooibos teas.

Learn more about this tea here.

Taster’s Review:

This Lavender Cander Fighting Tea has a lot going on:  it’s a white tea, a green tea, a rooibos and an herbal.  So to brew it, I decided on a fairly low temperature (I went with 175°F) and steeped it for 3 minutes.  I’m happy with the results!

This is tasty!  It has a really lovely flavor!   The lavender is strong enough to be a lingering presence throughout the sip, but it isn’t overpowering.  Lavender is one of those flowers that when overdone, it imparts a soapy or perfume-y flavor to the tea.  That didn’t happen here.  The lavender is sweet and quite wonderful here, and I love the way it melds with the blueberry flavor.  This is not a flavor combination I would have thought much about before trying this tea, but the fruit and the flower are quite compatible.

The tea has been nicely crafted, because I can taste each of the components and the way it has been blended, it would seem that the best of each ingredient is captured.  It tastes quite nice.  I get a sweet, nutty flavor from the rooibos without that sometimes funky, sour-wood kind of flavor.  I taste a light freshness and lightly brothy texture from the green and white teas.  I’m getting a lovely note of lavender and the blueberry is sweet and juicy.  The currant adds just a hint of tartness to bring some balance to the cup.

The way the green and white tea come through with the floral notes of lavender and whispers of rose evokes thoughts of walking through a garden – the taste of the air as a gentle breeze carries the essences of the flowers and surrounds the garden with it’s soft perfume.  It’s quite enjoyable.

This tea has been crafted to be help prevent cancer.  Now, I’m not a doctor nor do I pretend to be or claim to have all the answers when it comes to tea’s health benefits and how it helps to fight cancer/prevent cancer.  I don’t really even know if it does.  I’ve heard that it does.  I don’t drink tea because it’s a healthy drink, I drink it because I enjoy it.  But, if these ingredients also offer me some health benefits, then why not drink something that is both tasty and healthy?