You have picked out several Herbal Teas that appeal to you, so now…

How do you use healthy products to sweeten your Tea?

You don’t want to ruin your Tea with refined sugar or artificial substitutes!  No…that would eliminate any gains you make from choosing to consume healthy beverages in the first place.

You can easily find suitable natural sweeteners right here in our Marketplace with reputable Suppliers who are our affiliate Partners.  You can buy from them in confidence.

Herbal Teas taste good with a nice Honey.  Clover or other Honey that comes from a location where the bees can use the flower nectar from natural indigenous plants that are light in flavor work very well.  Please be aware that there are many exotic sources of Honey that carry the unique flavors of exotic plants in their regions into the Honey.  Some may complement and some may compete with the tastes of the herbs, so experiment to please your palette.

It is worth mentioning that the bees are facing challenges that stem from environmental imbalances created by man and the more you can do to offset this imbalance and bring it back into harmony, the greater our ecosystem becomes as it is restored to its natural state.  Turn off and quit using your cellphones and other electro-magnetic devices when in Nature.  Keep as many toxic substances from the ecosystem as possible – it’s up to you and each of us to do our collective and individual part in protecting our natural resources.

One of the better new natural and healthy sweeteners available is Agave.  It has a remarkably distinct flavor profile and most people like it immediately.  It will add a subtle nuance in flavor to your Tea.  It’s very sweet and mixes easily with both warm and room temperature Teas.

Date Sugar is superb in herbal Teas.  It perks up the taste buds with that deep sweetness that only Dates can offer.   It works best in hot Tea.  You may want to dissolve it in hot water first, then add it to your Tea.

Maple Syrup is going to WOW your taste buds when you use it with Tea, so choose it only with a strong herbal concoction or to mask an herbal taste that doesn’t appeal to you.  There are some strong flavors in blends of Teas that are best mediated with a strong-tasting sweetener.   You’ll know it when you initially taste it!

You can also add fruit juices to mask strong herbal flavors, if you really find them repelling.  Some companies have used hibiscus and rose hips to soften the flavors in many blends.

Stevia is one of my favorite sweeteners, because it supports immune function.  It does have a flavor all its own, although some companies are changing that with the way they extract the Stevia from the plant material.  A little goes a long ways…

Organic pure cane sugar is excellent with herbal Teas.  It most closely approximates what you are used to with the texture of refined sugars that so many of us grew up with as the norm.  But promise yourself that you will never use refined sugar ever again…for the sake of your adrenal glands and pancreas, as well as your entire endocrine system.

It’s better to not use any sweetener, rather than use refined sugar or white sugar when you are traveling or visiting less health-conscious friends.  Forget those horrific artificial substitutes…unless you want to purposefully poison someone and interrupt their brain’s biochemistry.  Yes, we have proof that they do this…all we do is place you on our electro-acupuncture equipment and test a few points to show you how they detract from health rather than complementing it.

All in all…sweetening your herbal Teas with natural substances is the only sane and smart way to keep your body healthy!

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