Green Product Review: Organic Mama-To-Be Tea Sampler
June 21, 2009 by Jennifer
This is the absolute last day you can enter the Earth Mama Angel Baby Giveaway here at Tree Hugging Family, and to end this giveaway event, I’ve got one last product review for you…
PRODUCT: Mama-To-Be Tea Sampler, comes with a mix of 16 tea bags – Morning Wellness Tea, Heartburn Tea, Third Trimester Tea, and Peaceful Mama Tea.
USE: To help treat common aches and pains of pregnancy plus help you relax.
INGREDIENTS: Various ingredients (all organic) in each tea type. See the following for a full run-down of all ingredients…
COST: $5.97 per box (16 tea bags)
ECO-PERKS: Earth Mama Angel Baby has plenty of eco-perks as a company, but their teas have some cool additional green attributes, such as; all of Earth Mama Angel Baby teas are USDA Certified 100% Organic & Certified Kosher and natural. Teas come in stringless and tagless bags to cut down on resources. AND the tea bags are biodegradable. Tea over wrap is compostable and the 100% recycled and recyclable tea cartons are produced using wind energy. Nice.
WHAT I THINK:
I’m not a big tea drinker. I’m sort of a coffee addict actually. BUT I tried out a couple of their teas, and it went just fine (nope, the lack of caffeine didn’t kill me). Here’s a quick run-down of the teas…
Morning Wellness Tea: Blended with stomach settling ginger root and spearmint, a safe hint of peppermint, and soothing chamomile and lemon balm plus a twist of orange peel for flavor. Made to cut down on all those queasy stomach issues you may have early on in your pregnancy. Not having morning sickness currently, I didn’t test this one out.
Heartburn Tea: I also don’t currently suffer from heartburn, but the mix of marshmallow root, lemon balm, chamomile, spearmint, and astringent red raspberry leaf sounded pretty good so I gave it a whirl. I liked it actually. Because this was one, mint, and two tea (not a fan of either) this was a surprise. The mint wasn’t overpowering as some mint teas are, and the flavor was strong after a 10 minute brew. If you do have heartburn, this mix of herbs is sure to help chill your body out.
Third Trimester Tea: I didn’t sample this one yet, but the mix of red raspberry leaf (an all-around great pregnancy herb), iron-rich stinging nettle, calming chamomile and rosehips (both full of vitamins and bioflavonoids), and calcium filled oat straw, is a great way to prep your overly tired third trimester body.
Peaceful Mama Tea: This tea has a cool mix of lemon balm, calcium rich oat straw, calming chamomile, and a whiff of red raspberry leaf and orange peel and was my favorite of the bunch. This is a tension relieving, relaxing tea that both mamas and dads can use to chill. I loved the flavor and did feel all nice and relaxed after sipping it.
OVERALL SCORE:
Five out of five happy little trees! Not being a tea drinker I was happily surprised that this tea pleased my coffee lovin’ pallet so well. The flavors were strong but relaxing, and mamas-to-be should have all organic healthy teas like this as part of their diet plan. The above mixed with the fact that EMAB is a great green company rates them a perfect score in my opinion. BTW I also tested their Monthly Comfort Tea – postpartum tea and really like that as well. Read the review.
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If you need/want someone to try the morning sickness tea I would be a willing volunteer. I’m just now 14 weeks, but still feeling queasy occasionally!
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