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Purple Tea in 1lb and 4oz bags

Purple Tea

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$15.00

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Description

This is the original pure purple tea from the Nandi Hills region of Kenya. Its purple color is a result of an antioxidant known as anthocyanin, which is also found in blueberries and red cabbage. Purple tea is processed lightly like a green tea. Sweet and mildly fruity, our Purple Tea is imported fresh from the farm. Learn more about purple tea.

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Brewing Guide

For the best tasting cup we recommend the following:

Water

8 fl oz

Temperature

180° F

 
Serving Size

1 tsp

Time

2-3 minutes

These go great with Purple Tea!

Customer Reviews

Overall, reviewers like this Kenyan purple tea for its mild, smooth, low‑caffeine profile, unique purple hue, and health/antioxidant benefits, with flavor notes described as woody, fruity, nutty or chocolatey and well suited for mornings or all‑day sipping. Some customers find it weak or bland unless brewed stronger or with more leaf (cold‑brewing sometimes produced bitterness), and a few reported stomach upset similar to green tea. Shipping and leaf quality are generally praised, though there are isolated complaints about delayed delivery and limited phone customer service.

Customer Reviews

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Bill H.
Quality tea

Quality tea !!! -you never know if you’ll ever receive it. Thank you 😊

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Michelle
Not exciting

Subtle and taste the tea flavor but seems more in the bitter end.

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TeaGaL
Purple Tea

This is the pure leaf, unflavored version. I haven’t had other purple leaf tea to compare this to, but I was excited to try this type. Unfortunately, there was hardly any flavor at all for me. Maybe it has more flavor brewing gongfu style, but I did western style as directed on the bag, and it tasted very bland to me. I tried adding a bit of sugar, but that still didn’t bring out any clear notes. I appreciated that it wasn’t bitter, funky, or vegetal, but it didn’t taste like anything but similar to weak black tea to me.

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Angel
4.5 stars really... rounding up... BUT, buying again! :)

I like this one a lot. I've tried ONE other Kenyan tea previously but it was harsh-tasting-- almost bitter. Consequently, I went with 180/2 the first time around. Next time I made a cup, I tried 180/3 which works equally as well as far as taste. To me this tea has a light mineral taste, not unlike a rock oolong from the Wuyi area of China. Very nice. AND, I love that it's low caff. I don't have enough actual Camellia sinensis in the low caff category-- more herbals/tisanes and a few select white teas.

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Hunter S.
Warm and relaxing!

This purple tea has great nutty and chocolate flavors! Slightly more vegtable than floral. The only reason I'm not rating this a 5, is that the flavor was a bit weak and requires a bit more leaf than I would use on average.

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