sweet tea without sugar or honey is it possible

salvationsdying

I don't like honey and I want to cut some of my calories out by cutting out some sugar but I don't like regular unsweet tea is there any ideas you guys have of how I can make sweet tea without sugar or honey? I know I need more water trust me, but sometimes I really want some hot tea. Also I don't care for green tea. Someone told me once before to try it instead.

salvationsdying

I've had lemon before. So that I can deal with lol. I like it

kirili3

The only thing I can suggest is to use less sugar (1 tsp) and then let your tea cool some before drinking, which makes the sweet taste stronger because the whole experience is less... hot (SCIENCE!).

Otherwise I just budget some calories for hot tea with milk and sugar.

tawnywest

Stevia in tablet form is totally natural and very good. Splenda is great too. I use both regularly.

melaniecheeks

Try some other fruit flavoured teas or infusions - I like a vanilla rooibos, but there's plenty of honey/ ginger or berry flavoured varieties.

How are you with just a slice of lemon in hot water?

LKArgh

Stevia works well with tea, especially lemon tea

Savlona

I read when I was a teenager that if you can stick out drinking tea with no sugar for 10 days, you won't want it any more. At the time I drank it with two sugars, so I thought I'd give it a go. It actually worked.
However, if that's too much to suffer through, there are plenty of alternative sweeteners out there. In any case, your average tea with 2 sugars is still probably less sugary than a fizzy drink...

jasneet12

I really enjoy an apple tea in a local shop close to my work place. These are the closest recipes I have found to the tea (they refuse to give their recipe out). However the one I drink; has 2-3 fresh pieces of apple in it.

Hot Buttered Apple Tea
Ingredients
12 cups of water
2 Family sized tea bags
½ cup apple butter
Directions

Follow instructions on tea bags and while tea is hot, add apple butter. This smells and tastes so delicious - it is like a warm mulled cider.

Turkish Apple Tea
Ingredients:

Servings:
4-6

8 ounces sliced dried apples
2 cinnamon sticks
4 whole cloves
6 cups cold water
honey

Place all the ingredients except the honey into a saucepan. Bring to a boil then reduce heat & simmer for 15 minutes.
Strain the hot tea into a teapot. Make sure to gently push on the apples to remove all the liquid.
Sweeten with honey, if needed, then pour into tea glasses.

Alternatively, you can also add dried raisins to the water while boiling it for a natural sweetness.

jenilla1

Personally, I think sweetened tea is kinda gross, but if I wanted to sweeten it without using sugar, I'd use stevia. :drinker:

P.S. That Turkish apple tea recipe (above) looks kind of yummy. I might have to try it.

xDawnsgrace

Stevia in tablet form is totally natural and very good. Splenda is great too. I use both regularly.

sabified

I really enjoy an apple tea in a local shop close to my work place. These are the closest recipes I have found to the tea (they refuse to give their recipe out). However the one I drink; has 2-3 fresh pieces of apple in it.

Hot Buttered Apple Tea
Ingredients
12 cups of water
2 Family sized tea bags
½ cup apple butter
Directions

Follow instructions on tea bags and while tea is hot, add apple butter. This smells and tastes so delicious - it is like a warm mulled cider.

Turkish Apple Tea
Ingredients:

Servings:
4-6

8 ounces sliced dried apples
2 cinnamon sticks
4 whole cloves
6 cups cold water
honey

Place all the ingredients except the honey into a saucepan. Bring to a boil then reduce heat & simmer for 15 minutes.
Strain the hot tea into a teapot. Make sure to gently push on the apples to remove all the liquid.
Sweeten with honey, if needed, then pour into tea glasses.

Alternatively, you can also add dried raisins to the water while boiling it for a natural sweetness.

These look awesome! Thanks for sharing!

I'd use stevia to sweeten anything

Edit: Agave is another option, but if you don't like the flavour that honey leaves, it might not be for you... Stevia is pretty much flavourless (other than the sweetness)

jasneet12

I read when I was a teenager that if you can stick out drinking tea with no sugar for 10 days, you won't want it any more. At the time I drank it with two sugars, so I thought I'd give it a go. It actually worked.
However, if that's too much to suffer through, there are plenty of alternative sweeteners out there. In any case, your average tea with 2 sugars is still probably less sugary than a fizzy drink...

to be truly honest; once you get used to tea without sugar; its really difficult to go back to sweet tea. I stopped using sugar in my tea more than 10 years ago; I kept reducing the amount of sugar in my cup over time and soon I was used to the taste without sugar. Today; with the exception of the apple tea; I dont like tea or coffee with even a quarter spoon of sweetness in it.

1992Leigh1992

Aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet, Canderel), Sucralose (Splenda, Nevella), Stevia (Truvia, Natvia)...

Splenda is my all-time favourite. But each to their own.

peggymenard

I infuse 6 green tea bags in boiling water. I then add about a couple of quarts of cold filtered water, fresh lemon juice and TBS of Stevia in the raw. I put this in a large jug and keep in the frig for drinking all day.

katematt313

Stevia is a good choice. Or you can add sugar free lemonade mix to tea. You can use flavored tea.

FarmallMom71

I agree with stevia but I also like wylers sugar free (they make a sweet peach tea) on the go single packets for water bottles -Good for when you are out and about to get rid of them sweet temptations like pesky sugary drinks. Keeps me on track. I find them for 1$ for 8 at the dollar general store and at the grocery store.

kbeckley11

I really enjoy an apple tea in a local shop close to my work place. These are the closest recipes I have found to the tea (they refuse to give their recipe out). However the one I drink; has 2-3 fresh pieces of apple in it.

Hot Buttered Apple Tea
Ingredients
12 cups of water
2 Family sized tea bags
½ cup apple butter
Directions

Follow instructions on tea bags and while tea is hot, add apple butter. This smells and tastes so delicious - it is like a warm mulled cider.

I have raspberry butter at home, I wonder how that would taste. I may have to try it tonight.

MeMyCatsandI

Aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet, Canderel), Sucralose (Splenda, Nevella), Stevia (Truvia, Natvia)...

Splenda is my all-time favourite. But each to their own.

^This. Except my favorite is NutraSweet.

Megmo127

Stevia!!!

I actually have a tea/stevia giveaway on my blog right now :P

DeltaZero

Sweet tea, without sugar.




What's the point?

Calliope610

Aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet, Canderel), Sucralose (Splenda, Nevella), Stevia (Truvia, Natvia)...

Splenda is my all-time favourite. But each to their own.

^This. Except my favorite is NutraSweet.

I'm a Equal kinda girl.

snowflake954

Love the apple tea recipes. I was in Turkey on a trip 22 yrs ago and had apple tea. I still remember how good it was. Thanks again! :drinker:

CindyRip

Liquid stevia, just takes 2 drops and a slice of lemon per cup. Also The Republic of Tea (www.REPUBLICof TEA.com ) has a blend of Sweet Tea that comes in several mixes, 2 you might like are Sweet Tea Classic Black Tea Bags or Calorie-Free Naturally Sweet Tea. You can order small amounts to test and maybe try a few more types of tea. They have some excellent flavors. I generally do not like green tea, but I do like their Goji Raspberry Green Tea and Black Raspberry Green Tea, they also have a white tea that is also very healthy for you. You could give those flavors a try, my favorite is White /Pear tea or White/Honeydew. Hope you find one you like, cause sometimes you just need a sweet tea.

sistrsprkl

Stevia! I use the liquid from Trader Joe's. The bottle lasts forever, easily mixes in liquids, and you can make it as sweet as you like. Just started making iced tea for the summer and I love it so much, just need to watch the caffeine so I can sleep at night.

rhtexasgal

No one has mentioned Monk fruit sweetener. It is right next to Stevia in the Raw in supermarkets ... tastes better than stevia with less aftertaste. Also called Lo Han if you shop in Asian markets. Monk fruit tastes great in tea and coffee and I absolutely HATE the taste of artificial sweeteners but this stuff is more natural, just like the stevia.

lisele03

Try some other fruit flavoured teas or infusions

^This. Not to be a commercial for Celestial Seasonings..... but I really like their Raspberry Zinger herbal tea. It has a very slightly sweet flavor, it's sugar and caffeine free, it's strong enough (no wimpy tea for me) and, because it has hibiscus in it, it is good for your blood pressure!

tracydr

I prefer stevia. I use stevia loose leaf in my hot or iced tea and the extract in things that don't get brewed.
For teas, I use loose leaf herbs. We have a local health food store that sells all sorts of loose leaf herbs in 1 lb bags. I do all sorts of mixtures using mint,green tea,roobios,and a few others, depending on my mood. I also grow some herbs and dry them. I grow fresh lemon grass and lemon trees, both great for flavoring things like green tea or even an alcoholic drink.
I have a strainer from Teavana. You put the leaves directly in the water and then the water is strained out the bottom by setting the container on top of your cup. Much,much better than the tiny canisters. Those have been relegated to spice holders for cooking.
Try adding mint to ice tea. It will give it a natural sweetness and cut the bitterness of the black tea.
A bagged hot tea that I love is Roastaroma from Celestial Seasonings. I grew up in Boulder so we had their teas before they went national.
If you like flavored teas, Teavana has some interesting combinations with dried fruits mixed into the tea.

amberj32

Aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet, Canderel), Sucralose (Splenda, Nevella), Stevia (Truvia, Natvia)...

Splenda is my all-time favourite. But each to their own.

^This. Except my favorite is NutraSweet.

I'm a Equal kinda girl.

I'm an Equal girl too!! Sweet N Low in a pinch. I think Splenda and Stevia taste horrible. Splenda has a bad after taste to me. Every time I drink a Stevia drink I get a headache. I know it's natural and not do that but it does. I add lemon every once in a while. I don't care for mint in my tea.

midas1022

They make a sugar free sweet tea in the Walmart brand. They are the concentrated squirt bottles that they sell. One squirt easily sweetens a cold glass of water and it tastes pretty good.

demorelli

Lottaburger has an amazing sugar free sweet tea. I think they use splenda.

snowflake954

I really enjoy an apple tea in a local shop close to my work place. These are the closest recipes I have found to the tea (they refuse to give their recipe out). However the one I drink; has 2-3 fresh pieces of apple in it.

Hot Buttered Apple Tea
Ingredients
12 cups of water
2 Family sized tea bags
½ cup apple butter
Directions

Follow instructions on tea bags and while tea is hot, add apple butter. This smells and tastes so delicious - it is like a warm mulled cider.

Turkish Apple Tea
Ingredients:

Servings:
4-6

8 ounces sliced dried apples
2 cinnamon sticks
4 whole cloves
6 cups cold water
honey

Place all the ingredients except the honey into a saucepan. Bring to a boil then reduce heat & simmer for 15 minutes.
Strain the hot tea into a teapot. Make sure to gently push on the apples to remove all the liquid.
Sweeten with honey, if needed, then pour into tea glasses.

Alternatively, you can also add dried raisins to the water while boiling it for a natural sweetness.

I tried the Turkish apple tea last night using fresh apples---it turned out great. I had a mugful left over and am drinking it now, but instead of putting honey in, I tried a teaspoon of fresh squeezed lemon juice. I can drink it without honey or sugar that way. Thanks for the great recipe. I love apples and cinnamon combined, especially in the winter. I want to try it iced for the summer. :drinker: