3 TEAS FOR SUGAR CRAVINGS

Are you trying to go on a low sugar diet or trying cut out sugar altogether? Trying the ketogenic diet or low carb? Maybe you have a friend that has s serious sweet tooth and you want to find a tea gift to entice them to drink true tea.
These three teas are my perfect go-to when I have a sugar craving:
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River High: meileaf.com/p/...
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[@anasibndawood6696]

People who love tea I realized normally tend to love nature and the outdoors, chocolate and reading , it’s a connection in a unique way

[@joshuathompson4242]

I agree. Perhaps because they are all calming.

[@LL-bl8hd]

That's me!

[@vizionofire2044]

No I dont

[@drillclassics965]

Damn I like chocolate, play golf and read jahah

[@joyalways1179]

Add cannabis and you got me🤣

[@ongoingmartin]

Agreed...I can't stand licorice, yet I love the licorice notes in a tea. Also, I gave some Eastern Beauty to a tea dabbling friend of mine and she said it was like a pudding. 👍🍃💚🍃

[@jodimeyer6209]

Golden Bud for me! Super sweet and lingering but not sickly like an actual sweet tea (in the sense of Texas) tends to be

[@xSilverFernx]

My favorite teas to drink when I feel a sugar craving are 1) Honey Duchess (just divine. Decadent with a variety and depth of sweet flavors and aromas). 2) Purple Bud (the AFTERTASTE on this one. I usually don’t think too much about the aftertaste but this one lingers, clean and sweet at once like a cocktail garnished with herbs). 2) Jin Xuan oolongs because that rich milky feeling in the mouth is just so luxurious and dessert-like.

[@mario7027]

Silver Needle is the tea with the sweetest flavour for me.

[@aylachipman7583]

Moonlight white for me. I'm glad someone else gets sweetness from whites !

[@andrewshippy6623]

I love the sweet taste of Consort's Smile, Forest Jam, and sometimes Candy Tree Black. Eastern Beauty is very sweet but much more expensive than the three i mentioned.

[@mariannefleur6671]

Nice geeky video: I’m having some of your Osmanthus Oolong - extremely sweet tea. No sugar needed 🍵🌸👌🏻

[@nemoletov8214]

Keto for 5 years now. Tea helping a lot both in fasting and staying very low carb and my favorite tea for sweetness is palace puer. And tea in general is a great treat it gives you pleasure with zero calories in so you dont need piece of cake.

[@lukassusnjak]

I am a sweet tooth, and honestly, I like a tea from local teashop, called Powerberry. It is a black tea with cranberries and rose leaves

[@chrisw7347]

Yancha or "Rock Tea" , WuYi roasted oolongs tend to be extremely sweet from my experience. Da Hong Pao, Rou Gui, etc.

[@acemanhomer1]

Don, you should check out and source dried monkfruit pieces as a tisane! Natural sweetness! And for anyone who isn't aware, monkfruit is sweetened by a natural antioxidant, and is very sweet per volume compared to sugar. For instance I sweeten 1 cup(US) of Wildwood Black with just 5-7 drops of liquid monkfruit extract, and it adds little to basically no flavor..and an ever so slight different mouth feel than sugar, but well worth it in a hot cuppa. Give a try, I don't think you'll be dissapointed, given what I've described.

[@allinbrocade]

I love this tea Oriental Beauty ! I put so much leafs in my cup it's insane !

[@petra.andersen]

So many teas are great as dessert - lots of oolongs esp. phoenixes but also Tie Guan Yins - Shifu's Pudding is great and Blazing Formosa - dessert, coffee crazing and tea craving all in one!

[@petra.andersen]

PS: watching with Longan Lapsang, yummy tea.

[@andrewshippy6623]

I'm a huge Shifu's Pudding fan (about half of my stashed treasure is Shifu's). However I've always thought about it as an ear into morning tea. Now I'll have to try it for dessert!

[@bjbboy71697]

Generally you can't go wrong with most oolong's. I think they are also the most forgiving tea since it is difficult to overbrew them. Raw puer's require a much more delicate balance so they don't become too bitter.

[@ChristopherLopezDrums]

Finally a video that features my beloved River High the way it deserves! Delicious tea!

[@mirarami1055]

3 teas for sugar craving : 1. Bai Hao Oolong ( Dong Fang Mei Ren = Eastern Beauty ) : with fruity notes. Min. 2.41 - 8.27 2. Un-smoked Lapsang Souchong (black tea with chocolate notes). Min. 8.35 - 13.56 3. River High Oolong (Ren Shen Oolong). Ooling which added with ginseng. Has lingering sweetness in the mouth and in the throat. Min.14.04 - 21.21. Ren Shen Oolong was my kind of tea : Value for money 🤗

[@annalitwiller1951]

Jin xuan is my go to for a tea that tastes like a treat!

[@shellyryder7697]

River High is my all time 'go to' tea! Always run out of this one!

[@wanderingteaapprentice]

Another amazing film Don from Mei Leaf! 🍵

[@wheelchairboy88]

I've found for my tastes that if I brew souchong liquor at 86C and steep for about 20 seconds on the first infusion and then start adding 5 seconds for each infusion after that I tend to get a much stronger and sweeter chocolate note with a slight floral aroma.

[@miillzzhere3476]

Oh don... I know what you mean by the orangey sweetness in the river high oolong. First time I tried it, my mind was blown!!! I was not expecting that rush of sweetness that hit the back of my throat.

[@vtron9832]

This is alright, but I always prefer a warm matcha with red velvet cake I still love all these teas though

[@anasibndawood6696]

For me it’s nectar raider and royal peach Orchard

[@Rajivrocks-Ltd.]

Im going to try the Oolang for sure! :O Question though for some experienced tea drinkers. i have an absolutely HUGE CUP i like to drink out of. Do i scale up the leaves accordingly? so 4 grams per 100ml -> 8 for 200ml and 12 for 300ml? Or isn't it linear like that?

[@beams098]

as soon as he said eastern beauty..🤤🤤...I remember tasting that tea and flipping my lid because it tasted like honey (to me)

[@willkennedy2150]

How do you drink the tea so quickly after brewing without burning your tongue?

[@jenniferbassfirstchannel]

Don quai tea (dates)has such a nutty sweet flavor it’s like a dessert tea and I love chai tea if I want something a tad sweet I like that type of tea . Haven’t tried any other teas.

[@catherinesmyth6060]

Just looking at dark, rich, matt black tea leaves with the oils reflecting the light makes me salivate.

[@IROCK80551]

My absolute favorite tea for that sweet tooth is White Mulberry leaf tea. I'll mix it with Jiogulan tea at times too. Sometimes when I'm feeling exotic, I'll put those together, along with horny goat weed, Jasmine Flowers, and Jasmine green tea and it's absolutely amazing. Try it out.

[@joetexas1546]

I think that Eastern Beauty is the most naturally ‘sweet’ tea i have ever had.

[@americalost5100]

There is a nice sweetness in the sourness of Hibiscus Flower Tea

[@MrsRepairTech]

Yes, my favorite teas are floral oolongs! I love the sweet flavor! I usually have to sweeten roasted oolongs/blacks or earthy tasting teas, and that just feels sacrilegious--especially because I use stevia and not sugar or honey #PreDiabetic). And YES, sweet teas are the best for introducing someone to loose leaf tea. :D

[@robertsansonetti7971]

Amber GABA: a wonderful honey sweetness

[@skittleiggyluv]

Just ordered all three of these.

[@cedricpicard297]

Some of the really nutty Long Jing teas are also really satisfying!

[@Lau_rao]

Oooh thank you this might be really helpful for me 😂

[@Tagahahu2]

My friend's receiving a renshen as a gift tea set off our gongfu awakening

[@domonkoskiraly]

Thanks for shouting out Hungary 🇭🇺 #represent

[@toma008]

Yeah, that felt good. :)

[@MrHUNeater]

If I remember correctly, he used to wear Tisza Cipő tshirts in some of his older videos, and that was quite surprising to me as well, but I never expected him recalling tokaji wine flavors in tea :D

[@Katpiratefan275]

I have recently tried an unsmoked Lapsang Souchong and I was surprised at how sweet and much like dark chocolate it tastes. It was so enjoyable and I wish I had a little more in the sampler pack I got so I can enjoy it

[@albertfaz2383]

All the answers I wanted to hear; but was afraid to ask!

[@Sirstarfish]

this video is perfectly timed

[@UncleMikeDrop]

I prefer mild bitter notes, but you do you.😁

[@suemg1878]

Best channel ever!!!

[@Roughdraft214]

Will try these! Don, what tea is best for hangovers? I’m asking for a friend.

[@MeiLeaf]

We like GABA Oolongs for hangovers

[@yngwerhappen]

If I do not forgot it in my hotel , you will get some raw cakes on Tuesday. My first tea without sugar was green Darjeeling.

[@azayn2434]

Laoshan black tea is another great naturally sweet tea. Straight up tastes like hot cocoa.

[@cassielewis7864]

A teeth whitener company should sponsor Don because he drinks so much tea

[@somedudesmom9540]

Love Eastern Beauty!

[@voidremoved]

KZbin must be spying on me. This morning I was thinking how my teacup is stained and imagined myself looking up how to clean it. But I just rubbed some vinegar on it and let it rest. Then opened youtube to put on some music, and was recommended a video from your channel about how to clean teacups... A couple hours later, I brew up a new tea I have not tried before... Some sort of silver needle white tea. Smelled a bit funky but the taste comes across as sweet. So I sit down at my computer, open youtube and it recommends this video. It is bad enough when they read my emails to recommend things to me, but now Alexa is spying on me when I am not even online??? And I don't even have an Alexa... Well, I am not sure exactly what tea this is but it is the first silver needle I've tried and it seems sweet to me. It is so soft too, I want to make a bed out of it. I want to rake a pile up and leap in to it... Too damn expensive though...

[@voidremoved]

it almost reminds me of beeswax candles

[@Colectionarul]

Please, please !!! give us some yellow clay for our blacks, at least some cups if not the pots . PS: Red clay cups would be great too

[@nemoletov8214]

Where i can read someting about all this tea chimestry specific not just general organic chimestry? Some books, authors?

[@SveinOlavGlesaaenNyberg]

I'm after something *similar*. I get easily addicted to Pepsi Max, due to both sweetness and the caffeine energy boost, and may easily drink a gallon a day. I tasted PuErh at your shop recently (The jungle one), and loved it. Any specific one that would be particularly good for these matters?

[@Mifistrules]

I really like the fruity sweetness of little tong mu(zhengshan xiaozhong).

[@mariannefleur6671]

Mifist my favorite black

[@joetexas1546]

Did someone else mention ‘Little Tong Mu’? (my favorite tea) Kudos and Cheers!

[@kikiriki8887]

All the teas are suitable after 3 biscuits, 4 cakes ... you know what I mean.And now without joking. When before the River High I eat something sweet I do not feel his sweetness, but if I drink it without anything sweet before, then it is pretty sweet. Anyway, I rather prefer contrast, a little sweet and then a bitter tea

[@cdg_-dz8qb]

my go to when i crave sweet is guei fei.

[@Peasant010]

i love how a brit says "gewurz"

[@chrisuk1541]

In your opinion. What is the best material or pot to brew eastern beauty? Thanks.

[@MeiLeaf]

Porcelain to keep the bright notes. If the tea is a little bit dry then you can use a clay like Chaozhou.

[@TheSmatislav]

Hello there, Mei Leaf! Is there any chance, you will add a Duan Ni teapot for sale to the available teaware on your website? Happy Holidays

[@MeiLeaf]

Searching.......

[@TheSmatislav]

@@MeiLeaf Awesome, good luck!

[@lesliea.7174]

Video starts at 2:27 for all the mamas out there. He talks forever!!!!!

[@UncleMikeDrop]

I really like a chai rooibos rose hip blend.

[@correctoranna2-backupchann127]

That's very useful

[@annehacker8840]

Souchong liquor is amazing!

[@kirkbest3238]

What about green tea

[@vasilileung2204]

English breakfast 5 sugar

[@tobiasmuller6232]

Hey Don... Tobias

[@carolineoram4447]

Mint

[@joshuacoleman1564]

Tipple Twister

[@snuffman5497]

i havent found raw pu-ehr to be sweet,in fact i find it very bitter

[@SherrillCuCu]

Maybe you are overbrewing it? I have two different 2018 raw puehs that have very sweet notes like apricot and peach but if you overbrew for more than 30 seconds they can get very bitter very fast.

[@snuffman5497]

@@SherrillCuCu i brew it for 15 seconds, its bitter in the same way as green

[@aosteklov]

90 degrees for oriental beauty? oh my... this is too much. i prefer it much colder at 80-75

[@chrisw7347]

You lose too much body, it becomes like water with those temperatures. It needs some astringency to create some puckering, a kind of pseudo acidity which balances sweetness.

[@aosteklov]

@@chrisw7347 i disagree with you. But this is only my opinion. Who am i compared to the Don all mighty, the lord of hipster tea

[@chrisw7347]

@@aosteklovYou have a right to disagree, but it doesn't mean you are correct. I tried to substantiate my disagreement with reasons. Not everyone can be right. If I say the correct temperature for Oriental Beauty is 47 degrees, I'm not some unique flower entitled to my opinion, I'm just being an idiot who doesn't understand that there are better and worse answers to brewing temperatures.

[@aosteklov]

@@chrisw7347 i was drinking last year almost one kilo of oriental beauty i bought in Taiwan (yes, i actually bought the best one i could find all over the island) and from my experience, over 85 degrees the tea loses a lot of flavor and texture. I like to cold brew it as well.

[@chrisw7347]

@@aosteklov That's great but, I don't think that changes anything I said. It is possible to like something, and be wrong. Some people like McDonalds , which uses the worst quality meat and products since the goal is "Make a lot of money". To like something and be right, it must follow aesthetic and culinary axioms. It's possible to love some food or drink, and be very confused about liking it. This is why some people can say..."I used to like...but now, I know better." It's possible to be wrong, it's not pure opinion. I guess the compromise I can give you is, it's possible that the tea which you bought is best at 85 degrees. But based on my experiences drinking different OB grades, anything under 90c doesn't express the full the tea, and that includes competition winning grades of tea. It's simply not a green tea.

[@thzzzt]

Yeah, there's just no substitute for sugar or honey. I would no sooner drink unsweetened tea than eat unsweetened chocolate.

[@tehninjadude]

sounds like you just haven't tried a good tea tbh i used to think so too, until i moved past teabags

[@thzzzt]

@@tehninjadude I'm 60 and been buying whole leaf direct from China & India for years. I know it's morally wrong among tea connoisseurs to use sugar in tea but I just can't stop. For some reason I *can* stand to go without sugar in a good baked gunpowder, but that's it. Just a rebel I guess.

[@tehninjadude]

thzzzt Well, fair enough. Good tea is the tea you like to drink, the way you like to drink it, so more power to you.

[@FrancisR420]

@@thzzzt I used to have tea with sugar and then I just started making it right and drinking it on its own and it tasted weird the first like three sessions and then it was really good and natural sweetness came out overtime to the point where I wonder if they'd been adding sugar to my tea cakes in prossesing, but I know they haven't because sugar has all kinds of weird unpleasant aftertastes now If you haven't gone off sugar for a full week or so, try it see how your palate develops.

[@thzzzt]

Well, it's been two years since my original post and I've changed. I was forced to. My doctor told me my blood sugar was in the pre-diabetic range. I wasn't surprised. I like my tea really strong, and because of that, I had to use about 1/4 cup of honey for the 16 oz of tea I drink every day. Doctors haven't proved that sugar causes diabetes, but there is a strong correlation. The tea connoisseurs are right, the sweetener partially masks the taste. I've been drinking unsweetened for about a year now and I'm about 10 lbs lighter. I'd probably go back if there wasn't a price to pay, but I still like the "tea high" I get from drinking. It's not just the caffeine, but probably one of the two other psychoactive compounds in tea that I'm super sensitive to. All in all, it wasn't as difficult to change as I claimed it would be.