A fruit-led green tea: Sencha with apple, pomegranate and goji berries, spiced with ginger and turmeric, freshened with mint and peppermint, and scented with elderflower and rose petals. Organic.
Two things you will not find here
This tea is normally sold with "Bye bye dull skin!" across the top and the words "beauty detox tea" underneath. Neither appears here.
"Detox" has no authorised health claim anywhere in the EU, and no infusion detoxifies anything — your liver and kidneys do that continuously, without help from a teapot.
The skin claim is a health claim on a food, and there is no authorised claim permitting a tea to say it improves your complexion. It is not a small technicality: a tea sold on the promise of better skin is being sold on something nobody has demonstrated.
What is left is what was always the actual attraction — a well-composed, fruity, gently spiced green tea. That is reason enough.
Goji and warfarin — the one genuine safety point
Goji berries (Lycium barbarum, wolfberry) interact with warfarin. There are published case reports of INR rising and of bleeding in people who started drinking goji juice or tea while on warfarin.
If you take warfarin or another vitamin K antagonist, do not make this a regular drink without telling your anticoagulation clinic. They may simply want to check your INR more often. The problem is only in them not knowing.
Turmeric and ginger, honestly
Both are lovely in a tea and both carry footnotes at supplement doses that are worth knowing even though a cup of tea contains very little.
Turmeric has been associated with liver injury in a number of reported cases, almost all involving high-dose concentrated supplements, particularly those formulated with piperine for absorption. It should also be avoided by anyone with gallstones or a bile-duct obstruction, since it stimulates the gallbladder. As a spice in a blended tea, none of this applies — but it is why we would not sell you a turmeric supplement without saying it.
Ginger at higher doses may add to the effect of anticoagulants. Again, a footnote at tea strength.
Pomegranate inhibits CYP3A4 to some degree — the same enzyme grapefruit famously affects, though far more weakly. Worth a mention to a pharmacist if you take medicines with a narrow safety margin.
Brewing it
Sencha is green tea: 70–80°C, not boiling. Bitter tea will bury the fruit entirely. Four minutes rather than two, because the dried fruit and spice need longer than the leaf does.
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