Late Night Tea Party! Mighty Leaf and Numi Organics Teas

Last night my roomies and I decided a have a little tea party with some of the delicious teas included in this month’s Conscious Box. It was an experience, let me tell you.

We had 4 kinds of tea; 3 from a company called Mighty Leaf and 1 from Numi Organics. We decided to make Mighty Leafs Organic Spring Jasmine and Organic Mint Mélange as well as the Spinach Chive Savory Tea from Numi Organics. If I’m being honest, none of us were excited about the Spinach Chive tea but Eric manned up and volunteered to take that cup.

 Okay I guess I should take this time to tell you a bit about the companies before we get into the actual tea. First up; Mighty Leaf and I think it’s best to let the company speak for itself.

“Mighty Leaf Tea was born for the sole purpose of infusing life into an ancient indulgence by creating tea products that reach new heights of quality and innovation.

From the handpicked organic tea blends, to the hand-stitched compostable silken pouch, the common thread that runs through Mighty Leaf is the human touch. A touch that resonates with the artist within the individual and fosters a more sustainable world.

Mighty Leaf Tea supports the fostering of long-term prosperity for artisans and their communities locally, regionally and globally in tea-growing regions through monetary program support. We also promote and encourage sustainable farming and production methods for tea-growing regions around the world through corporate partnerships and sourcing practices.

Mighty Leaf is proud to offer a compostable tea pouch crafted from corn-derived PLA. Our pouches compost in a commercial composting facility. The string and tag are also compostable and do not need to be removed before discarding." Mightyleaf.com 

That all sounds amazing if you ask me. Browsing their website I also learned that they offer everything from loose tea to tea cups and mugs, all at reasonable prices. A 15 pouch pack of that Mint Mélange we tried is less than $10 plus shipping, and they carry these adorable little tea pots for about $22! I love me a good tea pot :D

That’s all well and good Tarina but how is their tea?

Okay, okay I’m getting there. So we opened the pack revealing the cutest little tea bags that we then find out are hand sewn and compostable! We were highly impressed and in awe of their adorableness (Is that a word? Microsoft says it is but I’m not sure.)

 We steeped the tea for the time recommended on each pack (3 minutes for the Jasmine, 5 for the Mint) and then we tasted. They were amazing.

Yes, amazing. I’m not a fan of mint tea but with 2 sugars even I loved it. And the Jasmine! Oh the Jasmine was the best Jasmine tea any of us had ever had; it was Jasmine tea Uncle Iroh would have been proud of.  

 Final verdict: Will totally buy again and I highly recommend to any other tea lovers.

 Numi Organics:

“Through thoughtful choices, we are committed to reducing our impact on the planet. By using organic teas in our tea bags, eco-responsible packaging and partnering with green partners to offset carbon emissions, we try and do our best through our supply chain to minimize waste.  We are honored to be recognized through various awards for our efforts. Since most elements of our packaging can be recycled or composted, we ask that you thoughtfully recycle your boxes and compost your tea bags to complete the circle.” -numitea.com

I like the sound of that! Numi Organics is a fair trade business that sells many kinds of tea, including a variety

of savory teas like the one we tried. You can peruse their website because there isn’t a reason for me to repeat it all hear but I can say from what I see they are a good family owned company that produces quality product.

Speaking of their products…Spinach Chive Tea

The smell was horrendous; do NOT get a big whiff of that stuff. It has a very strong vegetable smell though once it started to steep the smell was less strong and easier to handle. If I’m being honest it wasn’t such a horrible smell on its own, I think knowing we were about to drink it made it worse than it actually was. In any case we had to enforce some tea segregation because the smell was clouding the aroma of the mint and Jasmine. 

That's the Numi tea on the far left

Once you get past that and taste it…it was pretty bad. But only as a drink; we all agreed it would, as Charles put it, “…make a glorious, glorious soup base.” In fact, once we started thinking of it as soup base and not tea all of the negatives I had sort of went away, even the smell wasn’t as bad.

It’s hard for me to describe the actual taste of things I eat; I’m just not that good at it, so I asked Charles and he said; “More than anything it tasted oniony. It tasted green; vegetale.”

To be fair to Numi one of the uses it lists for this is “as a delicious brew for cooking rice or noodles”, it’s just not for anything but that. Sorry Numi.

Final Verdict: As tea I couldn’t even take another sip. As stock we’re going to buy more tomorrow! Except not really because the organic grocery we went to didn’t have any