Looking to save some $$$?

I drink a lot of diet decaf iced tea and had difficulty finding it in the local supermarkets. When I did find it I had to pay almost $5.00 per bottle. By ordering it through Amazon I can get 6 jars every month (or whenever I want it) on automated delivery and the price is down around $3.50 per bottle. That's great in these tough times when every penny seems to make a difference! This is a great way to have a ready supply and not worry about going to the store and not finding any and the delivery is FREE! Thanks Amazon!!!More detail ...

Really tasty tea

I drink a lot of iced tea (unsweetened you crazy Southerners) but not a lot of hot tea. This stuff is going to be used in my iced though. Had a cup last night and man oh man this was tasty. It has an excellent fruit flavor going on but you can still taste the tea (that's my one issue with many flavored teas). It was smooth and crisp and felt like the flavors just keep hitting your tongue as it goes down. It's going to take me a bit to discern the different tastes in here but they work so well together mostly I'm just enjoying them all. Great stuff I highly recommend if you like flavored teas.More detail ...

A good old-fashioned black tea

In 1865 Thomas Johnstone Lipton went to the United States and held various jobs. After five years he returned to Britain and opened grocery store that soon blossomed into a whole chain. Among the many unique products that Lipton carried were teas that he has specially acquired and which soon became famous in their own rights. In 1954 Lipton introduced the world's first tea bag which is still associated with Lipton after all these years.



Well what can I say? When it comes to tea Lipton's black tea was my first love. My grandmother drank it instead of coffee and she taught me to drink it when I was still in grade school. It was many years before I branched out into other black teas then green teas and now herbal teas but I never stopped liking this one. It is often compared unfavorably to teas that cost two and three times as much but I found that it produces a refreshing tea that tastes good both hot and iced. Also it is the default taste that non-tea-drinkers associate with tea which means that if you want an iced tea that will please everyone it is hard to go wrong with this one.



So if you want a good old-fashioned black tea then get Lipton tea. I highly recommend it!More detail ...

Mostly hype

I love Lipton's Mixed Berry and Orange Passionfruit Jasmine green teas so I was very excited to see these new flavors. Not being able to decide which to try I bought all three. Couldn't wait to brew up a cup of Red Goji and Raspberry. Noticed there wasn't a lot of fragrance when I opened the bag but thought well maybe it'll release when brewed. Blech! What a disappointment! The predominant flavor is strongly the bitterness of green tea. Since then I have tried all three of these new "Superfruit" flavors and I am extremely disappointed in every one of them. The Purple Acai and Blueberry one has the most fragrant smelling teabag but the results are just as disappointing. Despite all the hype and the pretty packaging there is very little flavor to any of these except for the green tea flavor. Looking for someone to give this stuff to because I really won't drink it. By the way I drink a lot of tea and a lot of different kinds of black green and herbal teas and I do know Earl Grey from Irish Breakfast and rooibos from chamomile and yerba mate'.More detail ...

The Truth About Vitamin C In Raw Cacao

Hello Raw Cacao Lovers!



Here is the real truth about vitamin C (ascorbic acid) content in Raw Cacao:



Despite the trafficked reports circulating the internet the honest truth remains: even when processed at low temperatures (i.e. "raw") there is no vitamin C (ascorbic acid) present in cacao.



Recently highly trafficked websites such as[...] have highlighted the misinformation of cacao's supposed vitamin C content. Included in these reports are claims that raw cacao is "extraordinarily high in vitamin C."



Back in 2004 our Navitas Naturals lab tests directly looked for vitamin C content in raw cacao but came up negative. Despite these results the current media blitz brought us back again for another round of lab testing of our best-selling raw cacao products (beans nibs and powder) for vitamin C. This time we used two different laboratories instead of one and utilized three different analytical methods: High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Capilary Electrophoresis (CE) with UV detection and Titration.



Though all three methods have their place in the scientific community Titration is the most commonly used method in the food industry when determining vitamin C (ascorbic acid) content. However there is a critical detail within the Titration method many companies miss when testing raw cacao. The method of Titration is unable to differentiate the vitamin C (ascorbic acid) from the vitamin's analogs. The result is what is known as a "false positive."



This is why at Navitas Naturals we use HPLC when testing raw cacao's vitamin C content. The HPLC method looks directly for vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and not just the analogs. Additionally after sending samples of our products to another lab to test using the CE method the reports returned consistent the HPLC results.



We have now also tested one of the largest raw cacao brands in the United States using the Titration and HPLC methods. And yet again the results confirm our previous conclusion that raw cacao has no vitamin C (ascorbic acid) present.



Cacao is a tremendously beneficial superfood containing a wide spectrum of minerals and phytonutrients. It is important to be clear however Vitamin C is not amongst these nutrients.





Sincerely





Zach Adelman President

Navitas NaturalsMore detail ...