Ginseng five treasures tea, Ginseng six treasure tea for Women & Men, 7 Precious Ingredients Formula(1 Pack/25 Bags)

Not very fruity
This tea is not at all what I expected. I drink a lot of herbal teas and with the goji berries, dates, and mulberry, I expected a slightly fruity taste. I hoped the maca root flavor wouldn’t come through at all… and I didn’t notice it. But to my surprise, once brewed this tea smelled and tasted like mushrooms… specifically, wild morel mushrooms. And I didn’t get a red color at all, just a standard brown leaning toward grayish. I love mushrooms, personally, but I wasn’t expecting a mushroom tasting tea.The tea bags themselves have a string with no staple and a tiny paper tag, I think the bags are nylon? The ingredients look fantastic. Dry, they smell earthy, with a hint of that goji berry smell. Brewing instructions are a little confusing. On the bag itself it says 90°C, so roughly how I would brew an oolong. But on the product page it says, brew “above 70°C”, as well as “avoid high temperature to produce harmful substances”… as well as “pour 200mL boiled water over 1 teabag”.In the end, I used my kettle to heat the water to 195°F/≈90°C and let it steep for 3-5 minutes. I may try a lower temperature, but because I don’t know what the “harmful substances” are, I won’t boil the water. The bags seem to be able to brew a fairly large volume of tea (or a very strong brew?), and I read somewhere that they can even be reused… which I’m unlikely to do if I can’t get the temp right to reduce that wet soil mushroom flavor. A little honey helps… but honey mushrooms isn’t my idea of a snack. I compared 3 bags for composition since the ingredients are whole enough to identify… at least the mulberries, wolfberries, and date slices, and they are not identical. So the bags are filled from a larger premix and you get what you get, ha. I’ll try it again a few other ways to see if I get a different flavor. If not, I guess I just have to be in the mood for mushroom tea.

VERY sweet, a little earthy/smokey, nice simple ingredients, but plastic pyramids?
I love tea and drink quite a bit daily so I try to change it up and also make sure that not all of it is caffeinated. I was intrigued by this tea as I like several of the ingredients so I thought I’d try it. First off this tea is VERY sweet all on its own, I can only imagine that comes from the dates and possibly the mulberries, it is nice to not have to sweeten the tea. The tea looks just like does in the photos, you can see all the large freeze dried chunks of everything in there. This tea does have an earthy/smokey flavor it to it, I am guessing that comes from the maca and other non-fruit constituents. I have brewed this both as hot tea and as iced tea and like it both ways. Generally if a tea company is not using nylon to make their pyramids it is a selling point so they mention it. Without this company clearly saying that the pyramids are not made of nylon (plastic) I have to assume they are indeed nylon and not wanting to expose myself to more micro plastics and plastic related chemicals I have chosen to remove the tea form it’s sachets before brewing and use a stainless brewing basket. Also, given the level of sweetness one has to assume sugars from the fruits leech into the tea when brewed, so I wish that the company had nutritional information for this. I understand that they are calling it dietary supplement and as such do not have to report nutritional information, but for those of us who watch their sugars/carbs knowing just how much you get when brewed would be very nice. So while there is no sugar added this is NOT sugar free. This tea is a bit spendy at seventy six cents per teabag too and honestly I am not sure I liked it enough to pay that much? Anyway, so I am going to say four stars for like on this one.