bottled, cold * GREEN TEA * what do you recommend?

[rockin_rep]

Green tea (bottled, cold brands) are everywhere! And supposedly good and healthy.

Before i spend $$ to just toss them, what brands do you like, and why? Again, not green tea BAGS but the cold, bottled beverage.

TIA!

 

[smilie]

I like the Arizona brand. The plum flavor is YUMMY!!

 

[HayGan]

I really like Lipton's Citrus Green Tea. We usually get the diet (if available) We buy the 12 packs at the grocery store (makes it much cheaper.)

 

[Trish Bessette]

I second the Liptons Citrus Green Tea. Very good!! My DD takes one to school every morning.

 

[meeshi]

I third the Lipton's Citrus Green Tea.

 

[SC Minnie]

I 4th the Lipton's Citrus Green Tea!!!

I also buy the diet. It is around $6 for a 12pk here.

 

[Chuck-PA]

We buy the small packets of 4C green tea and pour it into a bottle of water.
This is our favorite.

We also like Arizona and LeNature brands.

Lipton is our least favorite. It has a more citrus flavor than a green tea taste.

 

[disneynutt1225]

My family loves the Diet Arizona green tea. We have so much of it, you could probably do your food shopping in my garage, LOL.

 

[curiouser]

Arizona!!

No offense to the other posters, but I think any tea made by Lipton tastes like sewage water. If you want a "truer" green tea taste (as true as you can get from a bottle) I'd go with Arizona.

 

[dizneenut]

My DH likes the Diet Lipton Citrus Green Tea.

 

[Wishing on a star]

Green tea (bottled, cold brands) are everywhere! And supposedly good and healthy.

The key word here is 'supposedly'.

Green tea has very very high levels of fluoride. Tea also contains aluminum. Add this to the fact that most bottlers use fluoridated water supplies, which often use aluminum compounds as clarifiers. This is a toxic brew.

Flame me if you want.... The facts are out there... Aluminum/Fluoride compounds are indicated in everything from Thyroid disease, to alzheimers, to bone cancer, to kidney desease, on and on and on.

Just yesterday, the EPA issued a report where their independant commision voted unanimously that they agree that they should lower the levels of fluoride that are considered safe in our water supplies. Be aware that green tea has up to EIGHT times the fluoride as is allowed in our water. With high levels of aluminum on top of that.

This stuff is NOT good for you.

Don't fall for the hype.
Just don't do it.

There are better ways to get antioxidents.

 

[smilie]

Wow, I never knew that. Thanks for the info Wishing!

 

[curiouser]

The key word here is 'supposedly'.

Green tea has very very high levels of fluoride. Tea also contains aluminum. Add this to the fact that most bottlers use fluoridated water supplies, which often use aluminum compounds as clarifiers. This is a toxic brew.

Flame me if you want.... The facts are out there... Aluminum/Fluoride compounds are indicated in everything from Thyroid disease, to alzheimers, to bone cancer, to kidney desease, on and on and on.

Just yesterday, the EPA issued a report where their independant commision voted unanimously that they agree that they should lower the levels of fluoride that are considered safe in our water supplies. Be aware that green tea has up to EIGHT times the fluoride as is allowed in our water. With high levels of aluminum on top of that.

This stuff is NOT good for you.

Don't fall for the hype.
Just don't do it.

There are better ways to get antioxidents.

You know, cultures around the world have been drinking tea for thousands upon thousands of years. The British drink cup fulls a day, as do many asian cultures and it can be easily argued that asian cultures are much healthier than we are as a society, which one of the reasons why the benefits of an asian diet (including green tea) have been studied.

YMMV, but I wouldn't start worrying now about a drink that's been consumed longer than my family has been in this country.

 

[Wishing on a star]

I don't really care about ancient history.

The information is now out there.

I have pesonally seen people close to me who have suffered the effects of aluminum/fluoride.

 

[CheshireVal]

Studies have also shown that there's not much chance of anyone ever drinking enough green tea to consume toxic (or harmful) levels of fluoride.


Most evidence actually supports that green tea is more beneficial than not.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

First the bird flu, now green tea. WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!

 

[bananiem]

First the bird flu, now green tea. WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!

Guess I'm goin' to hell in a handbasket again.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

Guess I'm goin' to hell in a handbasket again.

Yup, looks that way. I know I am certainly doomed, I green tea and drink lots of it. Maybe that's what is wrong with me?

Do you think we need to reserve our handbasket?

 

[Maleficent13]

Sometimes, there are just no appropriate words...

 

[mickey4ver]

Yup, looks that way. I know I am certainly doomed, I green tea and drink lots of it. Maybe that's what is wrong with me?

Do you think we need to reserve our handbasket?

I'm a consumer too, may I join you in your handbasket? I don't like travelling alone.......