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South African Honeybush Loose Leaf Herbal Tea

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This loose leaf herbal tea is hand-harvested and crafted according to ancient Khoisan tradition where it has been used for thousands of years as a delicious as well as a healing tea. Honeybush is an indigenous plant from the Eastern Cape.

A completely natural herbal tea, chemical and caffeine-free as well as being low in tannins, rich in antioxidants, mangiferin and polyphenols, which may support your body’s immune system, reduce inflammation and lower blood sugar levels.

Naturally caffeine-free.

Tasting Notes

A deep and rich herbal infusion with sweet honey notes and stewed strawberries, redcurrants, liquorice root.

Origin

Friemersheim, Western Cape, South Africa

Cost Per Cup

£0.29 per cup based on 2.5g of tea per 150ml of water and 2 infusions.
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Recommended Infusion Guide

  • Quantity

    Use 2.5g of leaf per 150ml of water.

  • Temperature

    For the optimum infusion use 100°C water.

  • Time

    Infuse for 90 seconds - 3 minutes, tasting regularly.

  • Infusions

    You can infuse this tea at least twice (with a short first infusion). With each careful infusion, different subtleties of flavour are revealed.

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More infusion tips

How to infuse your tea is very personal, and these are just our recommendations based on experience. Please experiment with these variables to your heart's delight. These are our recommendations, not hard and fast rules. The most delicious tea is the one you love.

Our guide uses a standard tea cup size (150ml/5.5 oz) as a measure, please adjust the quantity of leaf accordingly for less or more water. Our whole loose leaves are of such a high quality that you can infuse our teas at least twice, and the second infusion is often better than the first, with different flavours revealed as the leaf softens. If you prefer your tea stronger, add more leaf, don’t leave it for longer (this will just make it bitter).

This native herb is cut by hand at approximately 5cm from the ground. The stems and leaves are all used to make the tea. Skilled men and women harvest the honeybush from amongst companion plants of the area- know as fynbos.

Although all the honey bush has been planted, it is not a monocrop - the natural fynbos plants are encouraged to flourish in harmony. This means that these harvesters need to identify the honeybush tea between dozens of other fynbos plants and that grow symbiotically.

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Returns

The Rare Tea Lady believes that our teas are some of the greatest in the world, and that our range and service are second to none.

In the isolated case that you are not completely satisfied with any product you purchase from our website, please get in contact with our customer services team to discuss returning your order.*

In most instances, we will give you a full refund of the item's cost, excluding postage. We may ask you to return the item to us.** Customers in the UK & European Union have statutory rights not affected by this guarantee, but any bags of tea must remained sealed for this to be in effect.

*We only accept returns/refunds for tea within 30 days of receipt, because it is impossible for us to know if the tea has been stored correctly.

**We will endeavour to ask for pictures where possible - but if you have changed your mind and are outside of any statutory rights time period, return postage is payable by you.

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