A freebie teabag from the 2018 San Francisco International Tea Festival. I’m having a horrible migraine today and thought something like this would be fairly inoffensive since my GI goes cray-cray at the same time my head goes boom. I couldn’t rip open the outer package to the teabag and had to get the kitchen scissors, which cut the top off of the interior teabag, so I had to empty all the contents into one of my own fillable teabags, which was slighly more effort than I wanted to put forth while feeling like this, but meh. It was done and the tea was steeped.
I really just smell grapefruit and orange zest coming off the cup. That is mostly what I taste, too, but then, I’ve never had milk thistle and am not sure what it should taste like. The grapefruit is a lot lighter tasting than I usually get when it is used in teas, and I really like that (I’ve started to warm up to it as a flavor presense as of late, even though I don’t care for the plain fruit). It’s like there is a light, milky, slightly floral/herbaceous note that was tempering the grapefruit from being too abrasive, and it actually worked really well. If I was going to drink a grapefruit-flavored tea, I actually think this would be my choice. It’s coming off a little more as a generic citrus zest note, but very pleasant.
Ya… I dig this! Not something I’d ever think to try so I’m glad I got the chance to try it!
Flavors: Citrus Zest, Floral, Grapefruit, Herbaceous, Milk, Smooth
I remember enjoying this freebie from the fest 2 years ago. Feel better, MA.
Milk Thistle can be very bitter, as it is used as a tonic/detox for the liver. The bitter herbs, like yarrow, angelica, burdock, dandelion, mugwort and so on, stimulate the vagus nerve which controls heart rate, digestion, blood pressure and the immune system. Sounds like you got a very mild amount of it, as the tea sounds quite drinkable.