Gold Ceylon

This tea is called Mrs. Mays' Pure Gold Ceylon Cafe Tea. The company is Mrs. Mays' Naturals.

Flavor: Ceylon tea is a type of black tea grown in Sri Lanka. It does not have the bitter or tannic taste of many of the other forms of black tea. This particular one is light and rich and does not taste herby at all. It really lives up to its name, because it tastes like the color gold.

Suggested Additions: I am so accustomed to flavored teas that I felt I should add something but I did not want to ruin the flavor of the tea itself. So I added three cardamom pods and a teaspoon of raw sugar. The cardamom adds to the exquisite-ness of the tea (as both are from the same region of the world. The raw sugar seems to enhance the golden taste. In addition, at the end of the tea, I usually chew on one of the cardamom pods for a quick breath-freshener. Cardamom in cooking really does not resemble mint at all but if you were to chew on one of the pods, it does leave a cooling, minty fresh feeling in the mouth, which I'm sure people would prefer over the smell of tea and whatever your last meal was.

Ingredients: 100% pure Ceylon tea

Purpose: This has no specified medicinal purpose, although the warmth helped thaw me out this morning after a particularly chilly night, but that would be true for any tea. This tea has a calming mellowing effect on my nerves, although it does contain caffeine, so it will also keep me more alert today. My sole purpose for drinking this tea is enjoyment.