Sweet Leaf Green Tea is a secondary branch of Sweet Leaf Teas, a company founded in Alabama in 1998 and pursuing the crusade for great tasting bottled teas to the ends of the earth and beyond. It all started on a road trip through the South one hot summer day with Sweet Leaf Tea founders struck by the lack of availability of a good tasting tea packaged for grab-and-go consumption.
Sweet Leaf Green Tea came about as an expansion to the original line with flavors such as Mango, Mint & Honey, and their latest addition to the lineup Pomegranate Green Tea. Green teas traditionally have less intense flavor and much less kick than black teas, which are what we think of when we think hot morning teas or iced teas. Marketed as tea “just like Granny makes” Sweet Leaf Green Tea is a great way to quench your thirst whether at home or on the go.
If you are on a diet or just not crazy about drinking a lot of sugar in your tea, they have already made accommodations for you! Sweet Leaf Green Tea comes in several diet variations, including flavors such as Diet Citrus, which are sweetened with sucralose instead of aspartame; Splenda is one sucralose based artificial sweetener that is used. Past diet variations include Diet Mint & Honey and Diet Mango, though these flavors have since been discontinued and are no longer being produced as Sweet Leaf Green Tea.
You may be wondering wondering what the hype is all about, that it’s just another brand of tea in a bottle or can. Not even close. Though reviews vary greatly among taste-testers, I can personally vouch for this tea being closer than other bottled/canned brands to tasting like homemade sweet tea. Blame it on being raised in the South, but I know what real tea tastes like—yes, even green tea. Tea is filled with helpful anti-oxidants ready to go to battle for you, defending your body against free radicals which can age you and bring you down. Sweet Leaf Green Tea is like carrying a small army in your backpack or purse… a sweet, tasty little army.
