My New Hotness: Good Earth Tea
I Love this tea. Seriously, I sleep with a box in my arms every single night, excited that in 6 or 7 hours I will get to drink it’s sweet and spicy, energy injecting goodness. I have never had a better tasting tea in my life. Green tea? I can live without it. Black tea is my new hotness…literally… Specifically Good Earth Original.
Brian St. Pierre actually turned me onto this stuff when I was visiting Cressey Performance a while back. When I smelled it I immediately asked what kind of tea it was. Brian went into the trash and got the wrapper for me so I could track the tea down and try it myself. He said that he bought his from Whole Foods, unfortunately, there isn’t a whole foods near my house so I tried four separate stores before ordering mine off Amazon.com. Amazon has a 6 box pack for under $20. Whole Foods sells the tea for $4/box. A pretty nice savings if I do say so myself. It is even cheaper if you subscribe (I have for 1 case/month).
Each serving is 3 calories and has about 50mg of caffeine. If you want to replace that morning cup of coffee with something different this would be a great alternative. Black tea has been shown to work as an anti-inflammatory in some studies as well . No sweetener is needed, trust me! Black tea is jam packed with antioxidants as well, like it’s green brother.
Good Earth also has a Caffeine Free version which tastes just as good. I am drinking a cup right now at 8:30pm. I really love this stuff. And please don’t stress out about 3 freakin’ calories.
Buy some, you won’t regret it.
I was just wandering past the tea section in my Trader Joe’s and there it was! The decaf. Anyway, I got it and as I type this I am completely enjoying this deliciousness. What a sweet treat. Other teas that have the same sweetness with no added sweetener thing going for them are: Celestial Seasonings Sugar Cookie Sleigh Ride (a seasonal tea, but you can get it at Amazon, I’m sure) and Stash Tea Licorice Spice (great if you like licorice!). Thanks for the recommendation!
This stuff rocks your socks off. I discovered it randomly a few years ago and love it more than I love HIIT. Ha! Seriously, thanks for reminding me about it AND for the tip about the Amazon deal!
Dude, great recommendation! I read this and happened to go to the local Safeway on the same day. Saw a few different flavors and went with the Green Tea with Lemongrass and the Black Tea with Mate and Citrus. Dude, the Black Tea is outstanding! I immediately ordered the case on Amazon. The original is good, but I don’t think it compares to the Black.
I can only do a cup of the original a day… The cinnamon is overpowering after that. The second or third cup generally starts to taste like I’m drinking red hots…