Gold Peak green tea

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Belle_Fille
Belle_Fille Posts: 469
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
is this the right kind of green tea? the one that is supposed to be good for you and help your metabolism?

my honey finally found me some and i was expecting it to taste like unsweetened tea. but this is pretty sweet.

The nutrition facts are
serving size 8oz
cals 80
total fat 0
sodium 20mg
total carbohydrate 20g
sugars 20g
protein 0

it tastes really good...and i was not expecting that at all!

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  • ljbrauer
    ljbrauer Posts: 62
    i personally don't think you should drink your calories, just stick with water and decaf green tea bags or decaf herbal tea bags. The sugar content is pretty high (again, my opinion only). You aren't really gaining anything with drinking that. :]
  • ncqueenbee
    ncqueenbee Posts: 147 Member
    It most probably taste pretty sweet because of all that added sugar (20g). Real green tea has no additives...e.g. calories, carbs or sugars.
  • Belle_Fille
    Belle_Fille Posts: 469
    It most probably taste pretty sweet because of all that added sugar (20g). Real green tea has no additives...e.g. calories, carbs or sugars.
    ok so the answer to my question is no. this isnt the right tea.

    thank you.
  • I think any green tea should have the same benefits, but that does look like a lot of sugar for 8oz. If I am getting bottled kind, I like the unsweetend honest tea. I think the brown labeled gold peak tea is unsweetened.

    I think it tastes really good without sweetener. Sometimes I add some honey to my tea, but not often. Hot green tea is also really delicious.
  • KeriA
    KeriA Posts: 3,396 Member
    White tea is good too. They are starting to research it and it seems to have as good or even better benefits of green. It tastes milder than green and I drink one with a slight orange taste that is really nice. It is a tea bag. No sugar. I like green too.
  • stargzrlily
    stargzrlily Posts: 83 Member
    Alot of the bottled and prepackaged green teas(Snapple,Lipton,etc) have a ton of sugar in them
    Try Bigalow Green Tea. It's yummy and inexpensive.I take the tea bags and make iced tea with them. The peach one is my fav.
  • austepants
    austepants Posts: 356 Member
    We use the bigalow tea bags at home too! Very good tea :) We use just the plain old green tea then add some plantation mint tea bags to mix up the flavor a little bit.
  • austepants
    austepants Posts: 356 Member
    http://www.thismamacooks.com/2009/08/matcha-source-green-tea-smoothie.html

    I saw this Matcha green tea on the Dr, Oz show on Friday the link above explains some about it. I thought it looked interesting bc one glass of this is the equivalent of 10 glasses of other green teas. It also has a smoothie recipe on it.
  • MsMouseMouse
    MsMouseMouse Posts: 92 Member
    That is pretty high in sugar. Our Dietitian at work said to look at it this way. For every 5 grams of sugar in anything it equals 1 teaspoon of sugar.. so in your 8oz glass of tea it would be like adding 4 tps of sugar.. would you take a glass or cup of anything and actually add 4 teaspoons of sugar to it??? Hope this is helpful. I really study the ingredients in everything, and try not to eat anything that has more than 5 grams in it. I will go to 7 or 8 grams if its a larger serving.
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