All About Tisanes (Herbals)

Tisane is the French term for tea like drink without tea. In the US, we use the very broad term of herbal to describe any plant steeped in boiling water that is not coffee or tea. There is a very wide range of herbal ingredients. In this video we touch on several of the most popular herbals and why they might be used in blend.
The two main characteristics to why an herbal ingredient may to added to a blend are flavor/scent and mouthfeel. We describe several of those and give you an idea of why they are used to enhance scent or mouthfeel.
Here is a blog post to better understand mouthfeel:
blog.dominiontea.com/2017/06/1...
Here is a blog post on describing flavor:
blog.dominiontea.com/2014/11/2...
Some may wonder why we don't talk about the health aspects of these herbal ingredients. That is not our focus, we believe in creating a beverage that tastes good and is enjoyable to drink. If it happens to help contribute to a healthy lifestyle, that is just icing on the cake.
In this video we highlight a number of the ingredients we commonly use in our blends and why we use them. As noted in the video many of the ingredients we use in our blends are for a specific mouth feel. Things like chamomile and lavender provide both a distinct mouth feel and strong scent, both on the dry tisane as well as the infusion.
A number of the herbs we add to our tisane blends are for sweetening or softening a tea without the use of sugar. Some examples of this are gojiberry, licorice root, and raspberry leaf. While gojiberry tends to be a subtle sweetness, licorice root is quite powerful and a little goes a long way. Splitting the difference is raspberry leaf which does a great job with both subtle sweetness and taking the edge off a tea (herbal tea or traditional tea blend) that might otherwise have a sharp finish.
Then there are inclusions we use for other distinctive properties. Lemon Myrtle provides strong citrus notes to a blend while blue butterfly, a favorite of Traditional Chinese Medicine, happens to provide strong blue color to a tea. Likewise, hibiscus provides a strong red/ping color to any blend but comes with a bit of tartness.
Rounding out the list of some of the common ingredients in our herbal teas are fennel, lemongrass, and peppermint. As with the others they each provide unique mouth feel, flavor, and aromas. Fennel offers a great spicy kick to any tea while lemongrass offers soft citrus notes. And of course, peppermint is a super powerful addition to any tea. A little goes a very long way unless, of course you want a straight up mint tea!
Also mentioned in this video was Chinese Blueberry (a green tea with a touch of blue butterfly):
www.dominiontea.com/chinese-b...
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[@NikkiSarinoPada]

This video deserves more views! Thank you for the easy to understand descriptions of each kind

[@Taylor-te9gp]

Great video, just what I was looking for to learn about some of those, thanks!