In our office at Sencha Naturals, we drink green tea every day. (It comes with the territory, right?) But what’s interesting is that none of us were tea drinkers when we first started with the company. Yet through the years, our small, diverse group of once-non-tea drinkers has come to appreciate subtle grassy notes and unsweetened whole-leaf tea.
As we intuitively reach for the simplest steeps (“Keep it Simple, Sencha”), we’ve also been increasingly surprised at just how many people reach for those sugary orange Vitamin C packets as their daily habit. Even people who are otherwise very finicky with their diets & lifestyles.
Wait, what is that stuff, anyway? A popular fizzy drink mix made of mostly sugar, with synthetic vitamins & minerals added. (Hint: it rhymes with “insurgency.”) And people drink it religiously.
But, hold on a minute. Sugar isn’t the best thing for you when you’re sick. Plus those isolated supplements aren’t exactly natural. And by the way, your body can’t actually absorb that much Vitamin C at once (do you really need 1,667% of anything?), so… what exactly are people getting out of their daily packet of that sugary stuff? Is this just placebo and marketing at its best?
We thought we could do better, and so Green Tea +C was born.
We’ve created a natural effervescent drink mix based on whole foods, not synthetic 
vitamins & minerals. Unlike the mainstream brand that lists sugar as its main ingredient, our first ingredient is Organic green tea. Our blend of whole-leaf Japanese sencha and matcha provides a nice combination of catechins for your antioxidant boost, as well as L-theanine for focused relaxation.
Recent studies have shown that Green Tea and Vitamin C have a synergistic relationship (they boost each other’s antioxidants), so it only made sense to combine the two. We chose Acerola Cherries for their high Vitamin C content, with each packet containing 300% DV of natural Vitamin C, an amount the body can actually assimilate.
The formula is rounded out with coconut water powder for hydrating electrolytes, and a traditional herbal blend of turmeric, ginger, and Organic orange peel for immune support.
Green Tea +C is natural, vegan, sugar/gluten/GMO-free, and blended in small batches at our Los Angeles facility. It is low in caffeine (about 10mg per packet), and available in three flavor varieties: Original, Dragonfruit, and Citrus Ginger. For our TChing readers, we’re extending a special 20% promotion! Enter code “ILUVGTC” at checkout, and let us know what you think!
A review of Sencha Naturals Green Tea Mints is reviewed here.
Images courtesy of the contributor.
What an absolutely fabulous idea. I LOVE it. I have to confess that I never checked the ingredients of the other fizzy vitamin C drink. Truth is, that’s very odd for me as I always read labels but now that I know……..Yuk! You’ve created an extremely healthy blend of natural ingredients and I look forward to trying and passing the information along to all my friend. Thank You.
This is filed with quite a bit of marketing hyperbole.
” (do you really need 1,667% of anything?)”. Yes, you can if the method it is being taken has limited uptake potentially causing most to not be absorbed by the body.
As the great Stephen Colbert once said about Airborne. If we can’t trust our elementary school teachers to make medicine who can we trust?
To BR: An elementary teacher once said that “marketing hyperbole” is an excellent example of redundancy!
Thanks Michelle! I didn’t know about the sugar either when I drank the stuff years ago. We actually measured the amount in our office: there are 42 sugar cubes worth in a box of the mainstream brand. And for people who drink it everyday…. well, that’s a whole lotta sugar cubes throughout the year.
Adela, good to see you back on T Ching!
Thanks Erika :)