Healthy tea innovation grows category - Editorial from Retail World - January 2009
The Australian Fruit Tea Company will launch its new green tea fresh fruit teas into Woolworths stores nationally this year.

The new teas are green tea flavoured with natural fruit flavours and oils which will be rolled out to stores in May.

Available in a range of six, the new flavours include: Grapefruit, Orange, Mandarin, Mango, Passionfruit and Peach.

The range was launched after Australian Fruit Tea Company found consumers loved drinking green teas due to its health benefits , but found green tea can not always be easy on the palate, according to Australian Fruit Tea Company Managing Director, Noelene Wilson.

When green tea is delicately flavoured with natural flavours and oils extracted from the skin of the fruit, it makes a world of difference to the taste. We will also have black tea based fruit teas ( tea bags) available from May 2009. Our black tea based fresh fruit teas are very European in style and we often have European customers tell us how good they are, Ms Wilson said.

The Australian Fruit Tea Company is a chemical-free manufacturing and wholesale tea company, which specialises in the manufacture of full leaf gourmet fresh fruit teas with a strong emphasis on fresh fruit tea with healthy natural flavourings.

Ms Wilson founded the company in 1994, after collaborating with a horticultural research company to create the perfect fruit tea.

The tea had to be the best quality, with the addition of real fruit and natural fruit flavouring which contain oils extracted from the fruits skin. In other words, it had to be a natural product and it had to be unique.

Our teas are free of artificial preservatives, colours, flavours and our natural flavours contain no propylene glycol or tiacetine, she said.

Australian Fruit Teas - all natural, premium ceylon black tea, naturally flavoured with the essential oils from the skin of the fruit. PLEASE USE YOUR NATURAL PRODUCT QUICKLY ONCE OPENED.

Australian Fruit Teas - premium fresh fruit teas available on line today. Buy fresh fruit teas, premium black tea (ceylon tea grown without the use of herbicides and pesticides) with a hint of fruit, flavoured naturally with the essential oils from the skin of the fruit and fresh freeze dried australian fruit pieces (no additives or colours).

REMEMBER TO USE YOUR NATURAL PRODUCT QUICKLY ONCE OPENED.

Combine herbs for interesting combinations. Good - - options include: chamomile or alfalfa and mint; lemon herbs (like lemon verbena, lemongrass, lemon balm) and mints; sage and lemon herbs; peppermint and elder flowers; hibiscus and lemon verbena or rosehips; alfalfa and mint; clover and spearmint; licorice root or spearmint and rosemary.
Other good combos include green teas and apple juice; - raspberry tea and orange juice; and lavender with mint and grape juice.
Use iced teas to boost your immunity or address health - issues. Sipping iced teas throughout the day is a great way to reap the most health benefits from the herbs.
Include spices in your teas for added depth. Cinnamon, - cloves, cardamom, allspice, and ginger are good bets.
Citrus enlivens almost any iced tea. Use fresh lemon or - lime juice, slices, or peels, and/or granulated lemon.
Chill your serving glasses ahead of time, and prop a piece of - fruit (a strawberry, lime, orange, or lemon slice) on the edge.
Add frozen fruit to your drink. Whole strawberries, - raspberries, or blueberries are fun.
Add edible flowers (organic violets, nasturtiums, rose petals, - and scented geraniums, for example) to your ice cubes.
Combine an herbal tea with your favorite black, green, - white, or oolong tea - like Darjeeling and peppermint, Earl Grey and lemongrass, green tea and chamomile. Of course, all teas are delicious iced! (You may want to pour any leftover warm tea into a pitcher in the refrigerator
to serve iced another time.)
To dissolve your sweetener, you can make a syrup by - cooking the honey or sugar in a bit of water (or juice) and stirring for a minute or two. Then add the syrup directly to the batch of sun tea, once brewed.
Serve herbal iced teas with complimentary treats,
- like lavender cakes or cardamom scones, anise cookies
or gingersnaps.