Lebensbaum Organic Fruit Teas

With no other beverage do we associate so many positive qualities as with tea. In many cultures, drinking tea symbolises hospitality and peaceful togetherness. Tea drinkers are considered sophisticated, mindful and balanced. The German saying "wait and drink tee" sums up these qualities. Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world after water. In Europe, however, the popular hot beverage initially had a difficult start. Around 1606, the Dutch East India Company began importing tea from China. Shortly afterwards, nasty rumours circulated about the new infusion from Asia. It was claimed that drinking tea would rob men of their strength and women of their beauty. There were controversial debates among medical experts about whether drinking tea would have a positive or negative effect on health. In 1679, the Dutch physician Cornelius Bontekoe published an impassioned plea for tea drinking. He recommended drinking large quantities of tea every day. According to him, sick people should even aim to increase their intake to up to 200 cups a day.

Historians assume that Bontekoe's recommendation did not reflect his medical opinion. Instead, he was most likely paid by merchants to write praises of tea to boost sales. In the end, however, it was not the doctors' opinion but the fine aroma that helped tea to break through. In 1669, the trade monopoly for tea went to the British East India Company. While tea had become the undisputed national drink of the English a hundred years later, coffee was favoured in the rest of Europe. This has not changed to this day. Only in Great Britain, Ireland, Turkey and East Frisia is more tea drunk than coffee. However, tea consumption is now also on the rise in continental Europe. The front-runners among German tea drinkers are the East Frisians. They drink about 300 litres of tea a year. That is more than four times as much as in the rest of the country. And even of that, only about a third is black and green tea. In Germany, mainly herbal and fruit teas that are drunk.

Although fruit and herbal teas are considered infusions, they are not really tea. This is because only black and green tea are made from the leaves of the tea plant (Camellia sinensis). But because the preparation is identical - apart from the brewing time - the terms herbal tea and fruit tea are well established in everyday life. And they are becoming more and more popular. Fruit tea is caffeine-free, low in calories, an excellent thirst quencher and a real alternative to over-sugared soft drinks. For many people, fruit tea is also the secret weapon for meeting their daily fluid requirement. In the cold months, hot fruit tea provides soothing warmth and - enjoyed cold - serves as a fruity refreshing drink during the hot seasons. Lebensbaum has been delighting people with high-quality organic tea for over 40 years.

The tasty basis of the intensely red Lebensbaum fruit tea is apple and hibiscus, between which orange and lemon flavours unfold. Apples, rose hips, oranges and berries provide a real fruit firework display in this delicious tea. Lebensbaum apple fruit tea only needs one ingredient: apples! It impresses with its naturally fruity taste and delicate light yellow cup colour. Lebensbaum Zeit zum Krafttanken combines powerful turmeric, gentle honey herb and fresh lime with warm ginger to create a wonderfully harmonious, fragrant cup. Aromatic berries determine the character of the bright red shimmering sea buckthorn-cranberry fruit tea. It is gently rounded off by sweet blackberry leaf and has a fine fruit acidity. Fruit tea from Lebensbaum is a pleasure at any time of day.