Green Tea Green Tea

As I mentioned, I have been keeping up the green tea habit (although I find that it's hard to keep up when I'm out working when I tend to choose coffee or tea tea).

I am waaay behind on my green tea reviews and I want to get these photos off my iphone, so here is a mega green tea review coming up!

There was an offer on venteprivee.com for the posh food shop Fauchon.  I bought two of their green teas to test:-

Make: Fauchon Paris Beauté Thé Vert Parfumé, Belle Peau (beautiful skin), classed as a food supplement.

Orange and almond flavour which apparently gives the benefit of
- strong antioxidant
- rebuilds collagen
- smoothes wrinkles and lines
- purifies skin
- drains toxins
- intensely hydrates

and Make: Fauchon Paris Beauté Théo Vert Parfumé, Anti-Age, classed as a food supplement.  This one apparently
- strong antioxidant
- protects collagen cells
- improves natural defenses
- slows skin aging
- intensely hydrates

I really liked the flavour of both of these teas, it was easy to drink and very pleasant.  I had a slight preference for the Anti-Age tea with mint and mango as it tasted more refreshing.  It had a feeling of luxury using this tea, as the tea bags were wrapped in swanky, scrunchy, shiny paper and the boxes were very attractive with their translucent green and pink plastic and silver stripes.  A pleasure to use.

Minus - not organic and the lovely packaging is not environmentally friendly at all.  And I was a bit surprised when I looked at the ingredients:

Belle Peau: Chinese whole leaves green tea (86%), Granada dry extracts, sage, hawthorn, orange natural flavouring - so far so good - but then Additives:- maltodextrin and silica, Coating agents, - silica and sodium alginate,  Decorating agents - strawberry fruit granules (glucose syrup, strawberries, fructose, modified starch (potato) thickening agent (E40) and then it gets ok again - matricaria camomile, orange peel, lemon peel, lavender flowers, almonds

Anti-Age: Chinese whole leaves green tea (95%), ginseng Panax CA Meyer dry extracts, grapeseeds containing OPC (what's that?), mint flavouring 1.5% and mango flavouring 1.5%.  Additives; extracts' support: com maltodextrin and silica, Coating Agents; silica and sodium alginate.  Decorating agents: red rose petals

Each tea bag contained around 5 calories.

I was a bit shocked and didn't expect such elaborate ingredients.  I'll look more carefully next time.  I don't think they will have done any harm but with all that stuff in them, they sure don't feel like a health food.  But my skin was really nice after finishing these two boxes, I really could see a difference.