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Amazon Spice Guayusa – Lemongrass Cinnamon Loose Leaf Tea -Organic- Fusion Teas

The Amazon Spice Guayusa Experience: the Amazon jungle Take a trip into the unknown with Guayusa, a naturally caffeine-rich herb from the jungles of the Amazon. Tasting Notes: rich, bright, earthy This blend is a study in contrast. Bright, citrusy, organic lemongrass is foiled with rich, enticing, organic cinnamon and earthy, green, organic Guayusa. Dry, Amazon Spice’s colors are like muted fall leaves, yet brewed its color is a honeyed, bright, golden-orange hue. The lingering aftertaste is both sweet and spiced. Lemongrass refreshes, cinnamon stabilizes and Guayusa enlivens. The result is a balanced blend that gratifies the palate and the body. Ingredients: Organic amazonian guayusa, organic lemongrass, organic cinnamon. Savoring Your Experience: Pair this Guayusa blend with some of the foods of its homeland—fried plantains, jicima salad or grilled meats—or partner it with roasted sweet potatoes or honey-glazed ham. Fun Facts: Guayusa (pronounced gwhy-you-sa) is made from the leaves of a certain types of Amazonian holly tree. Like its relative yerba mate, it is naturally rich in caffeine. In Ecuador, it is traditionally boiled and drunk like coffee. It is considered to help sharpen instincts and help its drinkers stay awake all night.

Green Guayusa Tea – Organic – Extremely Fresh Loose Leaf – Fusion Teas

The Green Guayusa Tea Experience: Yerba Mate minus the bite A lot of our customers love Yerba Mate. Some never could quite wrap their tastebuds around it. It seemed too intense, too bitter, too… something. And then they find our Organic Green Guayusa and it all makes sense: it’s everything people love about Yerba Mate minus that thing they don’t like about it. Yum! Tasting Notes: Yerba Mate, stinging nettle, luscious Imagine Yerba Mate. Now take away the bite and make it mellower, sweeter, more luscious. Add a deep green note of stinging nettle. And notice the smooth, woodsy aftertaste. That’s Green Guayusa. Ingredients: Organic amazonian guayusa. Savoring Your Experience: Whether you drink this high-caf brew as an early morning wake-up call, an all-nighter study aid, a late-night energy booster or a backseat driver on a long road trip, this is a tea for re-brewing. Infuse it up to five times, increasing the brew time gradually and savoring the changes in aroma and flavor. Fun Facts: Guayusa is native to the Amazonian rainforest and has been used as medicine for many generations. The earliest evidence of its use by humans was a bundle found in the 1500-year-old tomb of a medicine man’s tomb in Bolivia. In the 1600s and 1800s, several Catholic missionaries wrote about its medicinal uses, and one Victorian-era botanist reported finding a grove of it that had been cultivated since pre-Colombian times (before 1492). Medicinal doses taken in rituals held by the Kichua and Jivaroan peoples are quite high, while social consumption in Ecuador and Peru is closer to the amount we recommend drinking.