Tea type
Black Fruit Blend
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Coconut, Tropical, Malt, Smooth, Sweet, Tannic, Wood, Astringent, Banana, Butterscotch, Creamy, Dark Wood, Tobacco, Vanilla, Cream, Bread, Cake, Nuts, Artificial, Candy, Caramel
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Bulk, Loose Leaf
Caffeine
High
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 30 sec 3 g 12 oz / 362 ml

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  • “Backlog from Sunday. I’m beginning to rather like banana teas, so I’m pleased to have another one to try. I think this is one of the last teas left from my first Bluebird order, so it’s past time I...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Uh-oh. My cupboard is suddenly up around 115 teas now! I went outside looking for my $5 Verdant sampler and found my order from Bluebird Tea (my last since I joined the ordering hiatus group) and...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Oops! Mustn’t forget the queue! Scheherazade shared some of this with me, and it has taken me almost the entire bag to work out what I think about it. I don’t think I’ve ever had a banana flavoured...” Read full tasting note
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  • “I have been putting off reviewing this tea because I am in two minds about it. The banana is on the delicate side and I find that the black tea dominates it much more than I would like. On the...” Read full tasting note

From Bird & Blend Tea Co.

Monkey Chops is an affectionate title, only to be bestowed upon the cheeky and the zany. Fitting, as this tea is Bananas… B-A-N-A-N-A-S! Some of our crazy blends (banana!) split the panel but this one has been a resounding hit all-round! Smooth, creamy and totally bananary..it’s simply the chops!

Ingredients: Ceylon black tea, freeze-dried banana, desiccated coconut, calendula petals, sunflower petals, vanilla pieces, flavouring

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Mastress Alita’s Sipdown Challenge (November) – “A tea the flavor of a favorite sundae topping”

To be honest, I haven’t had a sundae in a really long time. It’s just not something I crave, I love ice cream but I just buy flavored ice cream (coffee is my favorite) and gobble it up sans additions. But a banana split came to mind, so seemed like a perfect time to finish off this old favorite from B&B!

I do feel like this has degraded a bit due to its age, I remember the banana being stronger and there being more of a creamy element to it. It’s still tasty, and the banana is there, but it’s coming off a bit more Runt-y due to the lack of creaminess. So more of a candy banana tea now, as opposed to being desserty or pudding-y.

Definitely one I’ll reorder at some point, as I love banana, but probably not anytime soon.

Flavors: Artificial, Banana, Candy, Sweet, Tannic

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML
Jean027

I forgot I had this tea. Don’t think I tried it yet. I will try today. I love banana teas. I will let you know how I like it.

Jean027

Really good tea. Delicious as a latte with oat milk. I had it once two years ago. The banana is not as strong. I should finish it. My favorite banana teas are Banana Bake from T2 and Banana Maple Oatmeal from The Necessiteas

Cameron B.

It’s definitely a good one! I also really like the banana teas from 52teas, and Adagio’s banana nut honeybush is tasty too.

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Took a couple sips and was underwhelmed. It perks up a bit when I add some creamer. It has a nice smooth creamy taste on the sip. The banana comes out in the finish. It’s overall a subtle flavor as far as intensity goes. I’m feeling luke warm about this tea, but we’ll see if that changes in the future. B&P teas seem to be a bit hit or miss for me so far. Some teas are really good and others seem lacking for my preferences. I feel like I could steep this tea longer to maybe get more flavor out, but 4m was oversteeped for some of their other blacks. :/

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec
Cameron B.

Their teas are fairly hit-or-miss for me as well.

Dustin

I wonder how much of their teas they blend themselves vs. what they get from the larger importers/distributors and if that has anything to do with it.

Mastress Alita

It is my understanding all of B&B’s blends are their original blends. Of course they would have to source their base leaves/ingredients they use to make their blends.

Cameron B.

I think they’re all original blends.

Dustin

Well in that case, they can totally up the flavor on their teas! LOL!

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Another stop on my quest to try ALL the banana teas. Now, my ambivalence for black tea has been documented, but this one of the best I’ve tried. It says it’s Ceylon? Really light for a black, and supports this caramelized banana flavor throughout the tea. Not banana bread, more like the kind of banana you use for it: all dark and mushy. It’s not as intense of a banana as I’d like (nothing is really) but it’s really smooth. Bluebird/Bird and Blend is really impressing me! I also snagged a tin of their Bananas & Custard in their voting promo – really excited to give it a go!

Flavors: Banana, Caramel

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From my order during the boxing day sale. This has been a solid member of the Bluebird teas collection since I can remember and I thought I’d give it a try. I see banana bits and calendula petals in the blend. Overall, there is a light banana flavor which is great, a little creaminess. The ingredients lists vanilla but I don’t really notice that. I could swear that calendula petals create a creamy flavor though, or else calendula is always in these types of teas that have that additional flavor (pancake, etc). Otherwise, the Ceylon is a little boring to me as Ceylon usually is. But if there is some banana and a little creaminess here, I’m fine with that.
Steep #1 // 1 1/2 teaspoons // few minutes after boiling // 3 minute steep
Steep #2 // just boiled // 3-4 min

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While I’m not actually the biggest fan of fresh bananas, I do love me a loaf of banana bread and have really enjoyed a handful of banana-flavored teas that I’ve tried: Butiki’s Hello Sweetie and A Quarter to Tea’s Banana Nut Pancakes stand out in my memory. This one is okay, but definitely not a standout. The base tea is very smooth and mild, playing a supporting role to the slightly artificial banana and vanilla flavoring. Nice, but forgettable.

Flavors: Vanilla

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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When I ordered a bunch of holiday teas from Bluebird earlier this year, I included a note that I would love to try any of the banana teas that the company offered. Thanks, Bluebird! I received a sample of two banana teas with my order. First up is Monkey Chops.

Monkey Chops has a ceylon black tea base with added vanilla flavoring and banana pieces. I’m a fan of banana in all its forms, the actual fruit, flavored candy, spiced banana bread, creamy banana desserts, etc. and I have to say, this tea actually does taste like bananas-and-cream black tea! Even without milk, the brew has plenty of creamy notes and smooth banana flavor. I’d love to upgrade my sample to a full bag next time and try out all kinds of lattes and desserts with this tea. Banana isn’t a flavor you see in teas everyday, and with a name like Monkey Chops, how can you resist?

Flavors: Cream, Vanilla

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C

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I had a cup of this yesterday morning and it has grown on me tremendously. I think I have enough for one more cuppa in my sample pack, but I will definitely be reordering this blend in the coming months. It’s a nice black tea with subtle, slightly sweet banana flavor. It’s another one of Bluebird Tea Co’s blends that only improve the more I drink it. Very impressed.

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Great news! I fell down the stairs getting off the bus today! My shoulder and back definitely feel like they’re going to be massively messed up tomorrow! I am so grateful I still have a stash of the Canadian back pain pills you can’t seem to get from pharmacies anywhere else!

THANK YOU CANADA FOR RECOGNISING YOU TOTALLY DON’T NEED A PRESCRIPTION TO NEED THE HECK OUTTA ROBAXACET PLATINUM plus I am so tired right now (falling down the stairs getting off the bus probably didn’t help) that I crawled under my desk for a few minutes to see if it would be a good place to nap.

In other news, the pile of Things I Need To Write seems to continue to grow exponentially, and in my current state of being, I have no confidence whatsoever and may have to chop a longish opinion piece down to like 300 words and some quotes from people whose opinions are more important than mine. Ugh. The life of an almost-not-paid-at-all journalista on her quest to, I dunno, get invited to the same parties as Peter Capaldi? Getting paid would be nice, too.

Oh yeah, tea. I was SO nervous about trying a banana thing, because when banana is done badly, it’s massively unpleasant. The last thing anyone wants is to take a sip of something that, it turns out, is a dead ringer for that banana medicine they give you for ear infections and stuff when you’re a kid. Or any kind of readymade banana milkshake. That’s that kind of fake flavour that I think I actually only acknowledge as banana because that’s what I’m told it’s supposed to taste like, rather than bearing any meaningful resemblance to my very favourite source of potassium. NO.

Not so with Monkey Chops. It’s subtle, which is definitely for the best, and really didn’t make a massively banana impression on me until a few sips in. The mouthfeel is creamy with a dash of sugar and skimmed milk, and the soft baked banana flavour is more reminiscent of banana bread than anything else, with lovely bread/cake notes and enough tea-ness that you don’t forget you’re drinking tea. And I do love banana bread. So this is good. I’m very glad I tried this one.

keychange

Oh no! I can relate to wanting to crawl under the desk to knap, but am so so sorry you fell off the friggin bus! my goodness.

Fjellrev

Oh geez! Well, glad my country can help you out but damn those stairs.

You can totally pull off all that work. Yes, you can, yo.

And you make me even more stoked about this tea.

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Holy bananas n cream in my cup! This blend is fantastic. I’ve been searching for a great banana tea and I think this maybe it. All the flavors mix well with the black tea.

Yum!!

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Flavors: Creamy

Preparation
1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
EmilyGee

Ooohh banana cream sounds amazing O_o !

Ost

Mmmm!

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Mmm banana tea that actually tastes like banana!! No artificialness and tastes subtly like a banana milkshake if you add milk. Yum!!

Flavors: Banana

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