I discovered this recently and thought that the combination of ingredients looked interesting. (Click to enlarge the photo.)
Ingredients: oat flower (30%), licorice root, chamomile flower, lavender flower (14%), limeflower (10%), valerian root, tulsi leaf.
I had not seen oat flower, limeflower, valerian root or tulsi leaf on ingredients lists before, so the mystery was very enticing indeed. But after trying it, I must say it just tasted like some mildly modified chamomile.
Even its colour looked like chamomile - a dark yellow.
To be fair, I could taste the ingredients I did recognise - licorice, chamomile and lavender. Lavender and chamomile go well together because of the grassy but fragrant herb taste. But I wasn't of licorice because it has this hard-to-pinpoint sweetness at the edges of the tongue that is not really sweet. It was mild so it wasn't too bad, but the combination of this dark sweetness with the grassy fragrance was a bit weird to me.
Even so, these flavours were all too mild for me and it felt more like lightly scented water that I was drinking. And I couldn't taste any other flavour at all, despite hoping to try what oat flower was like, it being the top ingredient.
Perhaps the flavours blended just a little too well. But if the oat flower is covered by the chamomile, then I don't see the point. Not to mention the other ingredients I did not notice in the taste such as limeflower, valerian root or tulsi leaf...
Conclusion: I recommend sticking to a plain chamomile tea if you want something soothing. Or a brand that curates the ingredients better, such as Gryphon tea.
I had not seen oat flower, limeflower, valerian root or tulsi leaf on ingredients lists before, so the mystery was very enticing indeed. But after trying it, I must say it just tasted like some mildly modified chamomile.
To be fair, I could taste the ingredients I did recognise - licorice, chamomile and lavender. Lavender and chamomile go well together because of the grassy but fragrant herb taste. But I wasn't of licorice because it has this hard-to-pinpoint sweetness at the edges of the tongue that is not really sweet. It was mild so it wasn't too bad, but the combination of this dark sweetness with the grassy fragrance was a bit weird to me.
Even so, these flavours were all too mild for me and it felt more like lightly scented water that I was drinking. And I couldn't taste any other flavour at all, despite hoping to try what oat flower was like, it being the top ingredient.
Perhaps the flavours blended just a little too well. But if the oat flower is covered by the chamomile, then I don't see the point. Not to mention the other ingredients I did not notice in the taste such as limeflower, valerian root or tulsi leaf...
Conclusion: I recommend sticking to a plain chamomile tea if you want something soothing. Or a brand that curates the ingredients better, such as Gryphon tea.
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