SaedNews: Black tea is a delightful drink on its own, but by adding a few natural ingredients, you can enhance its flavor and enrich your tea-drinking experience.
SaedNews: Tea is the most consumed beverage in the world and the most popular drink among Iranians, with most Iranians drinking it daily. Drinking a cup of tea helps to alleviate the fatigue and stress of a working day. If you're a tea enthusiast, you can enhance the flavor and benefits of your tea by adding various flavorings such as cardamom, cinnamon, saffron, dried fruits, and more. In this section, we'll tell you which flavorings you can add to black tea and what their benefits are.
Cardamom
Cardamom tea is one of the most common types of tea in Middle Eastern countries. To make this tea, add the desired amount of cardamom to the teapot and let it steep.
Cardamom is the second most expensive spice in the world, and it has a warm, dry nature. It helps to soothe irritable bowel syndrome, eliminates bad breath, maintains balanced weight, promotes heart health, and creates a feeling of happiness and well-being.
Cinnamon
Cinnamon is one of the flavorings that helps enhance the taste of tea. To prepare cinnamon tea, simply add cinnamon along with dried tea leaves to the teapot, pour hot water over it, and let it steep for 10 minutes.
Cinnamon has a warm, dry nature and is beneficial for weight loss, individuals with cold temperaments, and treating various diseases such as cancer, fever, malaria, stomach issues, nausea, and more.
Saffron
Saffron tea is one of the most flavorful and popular teas. To prepare saffron tea, mix a little saffron with regular tea and let it steep. The amount of saffron can vary depending on the drinker's taste.
Saffron has a warm, dry nature, and because of this, it has numerous health benefits. One of its most important properties is its calming and mood-lifting effects, which can have a significant impact on improving a person’s mood.
Rose Flower
Many people add rose petals or rose flower to their black tea for flavor. To make rose tea, add some rose petals to the black tea and let it steep.
Rose petals and rose water have a warm nature and numerous medicinal benefits, such as eliminating bad breath, relieving constipation, combating infections, aiding in weight loss, and more.
Dried Fruits
You can use various dried fruits to flavor your tea. One of the most popular ways to make fruit tea is by adding fruit flavors to common teas like black tea.
Fruit-based teas are rich in vitamin C, which helps boost your immune system, and adding fruit to tea helps reduce sugar consumption, making it especially beneficial for people with weight issues or those suffering from diseases.
Ginger
Ginger tea is popular worldwide, with its warm, slightly spicy flavor and pleasant aroma. To prepare ginger tea, peel fresh ginger and slice it thinly, then add it along with black tea to water and let it steep for 20 minutes on low heat.
Ginger has a warming nature and is the best option for people with cold and moist temperaments. Ginger tea offers numerous benefits, such as aiding digestion, reducing nausea, relieving cold and flu symptoms, and providing anti-inflammatory effects.
Citrus Fruits
One of the most popular flavorings for black tea is citrus fruits. You can add a slice of lemon, orange, or other citrus fruits to your black tea to mellow out its bitterness and enjoy it with honey.
Mint
Add mint to your black tea and let it steep to enjoy both its flavor and its amazing health benefits. Mint has a warm, dry nature and numerous medicinal properties, including eliminating bad breath, preventing gum diseases, relieving bloating, stomach cramps, nausea, and diarrhea.
Milk
Milk tea is a beverage made by combining tea and milk. Traditionally, milk tea is made with black tea, and adding milk helps reduce the bitterness of black tea. A large amount of milk is not used in making milk tea, as milk is primarily a flavoring. Instead of using dairy milk, plant-based milks like almond, soy, or coconut milk can also be used.
Jasmine
You can add jasmine flowers to your tea for flavoring. This tea has a fragrant aroma and a sweet, delicate taste. Drinking jasmine tea can reduce the risk of heart disease, brain failure, and certain cancers, and it helps with weight loss, improves oral health, and enhances brain function.
Maple Syrup
The maple tree stores starch during the cold seasons, and over time, this starch turns into sap. In late winter or early spring, the sap rises to the surface of the tree trunk. This sap can be extracted by creating a hole in the tree trunk.
Maple syrup has numerous benefits, including heart protection, antioxidant properties, cancer prevention, anti-aging effects, digestive improvement, and cold treatment.
Berries
Many people use various berries like strawberries, raspberries, mulberries, and blueberries to flavor their black tea. Adding berries to black tea creates a tart and sweet taste, giving the tea a spring and summer vibe.
Stevia
Stevia is a natural sweetener derived from the leaves of the stevia plant. If you enjoy drinking black tea and usually add sugar, stevia is the best alternative. With zero sugar and calories, stevia is an excellent choice for everyone, especially for people dealing with weight gain, diabetes, or heart diseases.
