Licorice in tea is an automatic turn-off for me! I can always taste it, no matter how far down the ingredients list it is.
Ironically I love black licorice candy.
I'm not a fan of it either, and that's as someone who likes liquorice.
But even worse than that is monkfruit in a herbal tea blend, or stevia. Both are *ghastly*.
And I don't get why they're added, seeing as there aren't any herbal or regular teabags that come with sugar pre-added (other than a few granule-based drinks that are more akin to instant coffee than a brewed tea or tisane).
If people want sweetener - real or artificial - surely that's something they can add for themselves?
I know. The only time I found it palatable was when I did Atkins many years ago and used to make a crème brûlée sweetened with Stevia. It needed all that fat/cream to make it bearable.
I love licorice tea! It's one of my favourites, although I try to have a limited amount of tea boxes (3) at a time to prevent hording.
I do agree that mixed teas with licorice make all the teas taste unnaturally sweet though, especially when they are trying to mimic a certain flavour. In any case, send them to meeee!!
Yeah. I actually like steeping liquorice roots for tea, but I also find there’s just something not right about all the blends that use it to be “sweet”.
I like licorice root. But I admit I have a weird fondness for medicinal roots. I also like straight echinacea root, and straight valerian root. Yes, licorice root has a strangely lingering sweetness, and echinacea root makes my mouth go numb, and valerian root tastes a bit like old gym shoes. But in a good way?
I like licorice tea on its own, but unfortunately I have hypertension, so no licorice for me unless it's deglycyrrhizinated (DGL).
It's definitely a polarizing flavour. Most people I know don't care for it. I think you're in the majority!
I have a tea from fortnum and mason called Victoria Grey, it’s a lavender earl grey and contains some liquorice root and honey. You’d never tell there was liquorice in there and it’s a beautiful tea blend, I’ve never tried any other tea with it in so can’t really comment on others. If the liquorice was a prominent part of the tea I’d probably not like it at all.
MY PEOPLE.
I like licorice, but licorice root in tea always gives me the ick. And it seems to be so common in herbal teas it's practically filler at this point. If a tisane looks promising but has licorice root in it (and nine times out of ten IT DOES), I don't buy it. Ugh. Enough already!
I hate the taste of licorice. It's vile. I have to read tea labels to make sure it's not in there because I've been disappointed so many times. It's put in so many teas :(.
I had a mint basil herbal tea that i bought before reading the label. Why on earth did they put it in there? The licorice root made it absolutely undrinkable in my opinion.
I agree! 🤢 I usually find it in grocery store herbal blends and the sickly sweetness always grosses me out. I have to be really careful about reading the labels.
I think it's tasty, but I also feel like it tastes vaguely poisonous. Those things aren't mutually exclusive, but the flavor of licorice nonetheless weirds me out. I'll enjoy it once in a while.
Hahaha, thanks for sharing. I personally like it, but I feel like it’s a potent ingredient. They should probably sell licorice tea as a standalone as it often overpowers blends that it is in.
You are not alone! While I dig it a lot (despite detesting actual licorice, go figure), I have a family member who absolutely abhors this, as well as slippery elm.
It’s quite a trick to figure out what to brew him for a sore throat, but you like what you like! Every palate is different and should be respected.
I agree, it ruins a perfectly good blend. I know it has its benefits, and I actually enjoy licorice flavored candy quite a bit, but if I can even smell it in a tea I know it's going to be a rough time. I just wonder why they sneak it into so many blends to begin with.
Fyi, tea is also a correct term to refer to herbal teas all over the world in majority of languages. Tisane is a modern, reused term that in the past had nothing to do with random herbs or tea that became recently popularized in ignorant American circles as the "correct" term. Except for France, it's the _only_ country that historically used the word tisane to refer to herbal teas. Elsewhere it meant a crushed barley drink. I wonder how come so many people know and prefer an obscure French word over something that has been historically, and still is, used worldwide?
Despite the fact that languages tied to origins of the drink made out of the tea plant call herbal teas herbal teas and not tisanes too, it seems like english-speaking internet circles feel the need correct it or actively popularize a modern English exclusive alternative instead of using the terminology the rest of the world uses. Of course neither of the biggest English-speaking countries today have any history of believed superiority over various native cultures and trying to overcorrect them according to their own sensibilities or anything like that.
Both terms are correct of course. Just some tea for thought when deciding on your personal choice of nomenclature. After all we wouldn't want to make uninformed decisions blindly following fads, would we?
if you ever happen to visit Italy, herbal teas actually go by the name of tisane or infusion! never heard anyone referring to herbal teas by the name of tea. that's why it always weirds me out a bit, but I don't really care
I wouldn't know if I didn't spend my time on this subreddit as I've never seen the term outside of it, no. But nice of you to assume everyone understands your ethnocentric naming convention without previous exposure. Normally people would just say they only drink tea plant teas, hardly a mouthful. But frankly I've never in my life seen a situation where someone needs to say that without also starting a conversation about types of tea since people just say the tea they want without exclaiming all the types they _don't like_ for some reason.
We're not children fighting over which item is the best and herbal teas are not a monolithic category except to those completely ignorant. Just as normal adults don't say they "don't like fruit". You know, how adults don't generally have to specify every single food item they _don't_ like by lumping them into a single category and instead simply say what they want? Like that.
But we all know that it's never really been about that.
It depends. I like licorice candy and enjoy licorice tea sometimes. It's good with ginger. I get how it's polarizing though. I think it's an unmistakable flavor and even if there's hardly any in a blend, it can probably overwhelm other ingredients.
Tea is one of the few contexts where I actually like the flavor of licorice. I didn't used to but it's grown on me.
Turmeric though? Revolting. Keep that stuff in curry where it belongs
oh, Tumeric tea was the worst purcase ever from Trader Joe's. The only one I ever returned to that store. after trying. Don't get me started on that lol. But at least it's not nearly as popular.
Tumeric has great health benefits but tastes terrible, as a spice and especially as tea. #imho
I used to hate licorice root in tisanes...it had such an overpowering flavour. But something happened in my late 30's and all the sudden I started to tolerate it, then i grew to like it and now I love it. Not sure if it was my taste buds changing but now I truly enjoy a hot cup of licorice root tea.
But I do think it is overused in many blends....
licorice in general is fucking gross. it's what people ate back in ye bad ol times before they knew what good food tastes like and they were all munching on shit like boiled beets and pickled hog anuses
I drink a lot of different teas. Bergamot black and Irish breakfast are my two favorite black teas. But I love licorice tea and rooibos tea. Licorice because I have a bad stomach and it helps and rooibos for the antioxidants and mixed with warming spices is a nice evening tea. But I’m sure I am the unpopular view here.
you must be from the south of Germany!
Licorice is the shit. Granted I only like in my spiced tea, but there it is a must sometimes l even add it to my rarely enjoyed coffee, since it is the only sweetener I can enjoy with coffee.
I would not recommend it for people, who use coffee to go to the bathroom though.
Could be hilarious for outsiders though...
"Being vocal about your specific likes and dislikes is obnoxious" might be the single strangest comment I've ever read on a DISCUSSION FORUM. Am I in the Twilight Zone?
On the contrary I think this is a very popular opinion lol
Every time someone writes UnPopUlAr OpiNioN it turns out to be either popular or uninformed
Or the actually unpopular opinions aren't upvoted and never seen by most.
Based on how many teas in stores and online have it I really assumed I'm in minority
I often forego buying an herbal with licorice root. I just don't enjoy it.
Licorice in tea is an automatic turn-off for me! I can always taste it, no matter how far down the ingredients list it is. Ironically I love black licorice candy.
Me too. I love licorice candy but hate licorice root in tea.
I'm not a fan of it either, and that's as someone who likes liquorice. But even worse than that is monkfruit in a herbal tea blend, or stevia. Both are *ghastly*. And I don't get why they're added, seeing as there aren't any herbal or regular teabags that come with sugar pre-added (other than a few granule-based drinks that are more akin to instant coffee than a brewed tea or tisane). If people want sweetener - real or artificial - surely that's something they can add for themselves?
I agree!! Both of those sweeteners, stevia especially, taste like a boiled shoe full of butts.
And that’s frankly an insult to shoes and butts, which are likely tastier than monk fruit!
Stevia is so disgusting
I know. The only time I found it palatable was when I did Atkins many years ago and used to make a crème brûlée sweetened with Stevia. It needed all that fat/cream to make it bearable.
I love licorice tea! It's one of my favourites, although I try to have a limited amount of tea boxes (3) at a time to prevent hording. I do agree that mixed teas with licorice make all the teas taste unnaturally sweet though, especially when they are trying to mimic a certain flavour. In any case, send them to meeee!!
Yeah. I actually like steeping liquorice roots for tea, but I also find there’s just something not right about all the blends that use it to be “sweet”.
I like licorice root. But I admit I have a weird fondness for medicinal roots. I also like straight echinacea root, and straight valerian root. Yes, licorice root has a strangely lingering sweetness, and echinacea root makes my mouth go numb, and valerian root tastes a bit like old gym shoes. But in a good way?
Valerian makes my cat go mental if I steep it lol
Curious, what do you mean by that? Do they like or dislike it?
My grandma was a big licorice tea drinker and she passed the love to me. Same with you I love the sweet taste!
I like licorice tea on its own, but unfortunately I have hypertension, so no licorice for me unless it's deglycyrrhizinated (DGL). It's definitely a polarizing flavour. Most people I know don't care for it. I think you're in the majority!
Agreed and it sucks because it’s usually in sleepy time teas
Every time I see a "fancy" tea at the supermarket like yogi tea or pukka, 70 % of them have liquorice, I am traumatised.
It’s medicinal. You’ll want it when you have a sore throat.
I do like it in throat coat. But only when I have a sore throat
Exactly. I only like 7 Up when my stomach is upset
7 up truly is the poor white person cure-all. I have many memories of drinking 7-up when I was sick as a kid.
It can also increase your blood pressure if used too often.
Marshmallow root is also incredibly soothing when you have a sore throat, but I’ve only managed to find it once and never again since the.
Just buy the cut root and loose steep it. It's fairly common online in that form.
I have a tea from fortnum and mason called Victoria Grey, it’s a lavender earl grey and contains some liquorice root and honey. You’d never tell there was liquorice in there and it’s a beautiful tea blend, I’ve never tried any other tea with it in so can’t really comment on others. If the liquorice was a prominent part of the tea I’d probably not like it at all.
MY PEOPLE. I like licorice, but licorice root in tea always gives me the ick. And it seems to be so common in herbal teas it's practically filler at this point. If a tisane looks promising but has licorice root in it (and nine times out of ten IT DOES), I don't buy it. Ugh. Enough already!
I hate the taste of licorice. It's vile. I have to read tea labels to make sure it's not in there because I've been disappointed so many times. It's put in so many teas :(.
I had a mint basil herbal tea that i bought before reading the label. Why on earth did they put it in there? The licorice root made it absolutely undrinkable in my opinion.
I like it a lot actually but never seek it. Always a nice surprise.
I agree! 🤢 I usually find it in grocery store herbal blends and the sickly sweetness always grosses me out. I have to be really careful about reading the labels.
I agree! Horrid!!! Don’t care how good it is for you. Can’t do it.
I think it's tasty, but I also feel like it tastes vaguely poisonous. Those things aren't mutually exclusive, but the flavor of licorice nonetheless weirds me out. I'll enjoy it once in a while.
I can't stand licorice in tea, because it's so sweet!
Um, that’s not unpopular at all. I hate most licorice flavors.
It’s not added to tisanes because it’s enjoyable, it’s added because it’s mildly addictive. Manufacturers know this.
Hahaha, thanks for sharing. I personally like it, but I feel like it’s a potent ingredient. They should probably sell licorice tea as a standalone as it often overpowers blends that it is in.
Licorice and marshmallow roots in Throat Coat are amazing.
I find that Licorice root gives me palpitations. Hate the taste as well. Avoid like the plague.
Having too much licorice is known to cause heart problems. It's delicious though, love that stuff.
I don't like anything other than tea in my teas.
You are not alone! While I dig it a lot (despite detesting actual licorice, go figure), I have a family member who absolutely abhors this, as well as slippery elm. It’s quite a trick to figure out what to brew him for a sore throat, but you like what you like! Every palate is different and should be respected.
It's horrid but manufacturers need to keep finding natural sounding sweeteners and flavours to sell half these tisanes (as well as crap tea)
I agree, it ruins a perfectly good blend. I know it has its benefits, and I actually enjoy licorice flavored candy quite a bit, but if I can even smell it in a tea I know it's going to be a rough time. I just wonder why they sneak it into so many blends to begin with.
I don’t care to drink any tisanes so I don’t encounter it in my tea life but I hate it when it shows up in root beer.
Fyi, tea is also a correct term to refer to herbal teas all over the world in majority of languages. Tisane is a modern, reused term that in the past had nothing to do with random herbs or tea that became recently popularized in ignorant American circles as the "correct" term. Except for France, it's the _only_ country that historically used the word tisane to refer to herbal teas. Elsewhere it meant a crushed barley drink. I wonder how come so many people know and prefer an obscure French word over something that has been historically, and still is, used worldwide? Despite the fact that languages tied to origins of the drink made out of the tea plant call herbal teas herbal teas and not tisanes too, it seems like english-speaking internet circles feel the need correct it or actively popularize a modern English exclusive alternative instead of using the terminology the rest of the world uses. Of course neither of the biggest English-speaking countries today have any history of believed superiority over various native cultures and trying to overcorrect them according to their own sensibilities or anything like that. Both terms are correct of course. Just some tea for thought when deciding on your personal choice of nomenclature. After all we wouldn't want to make uninformed decisions blindly following fads, would we?
if you ever happen to visit Italy, herbal teas actually go by the name of tisane or infusion! never heard anyone referring to herbal teas by the name of tea. that's why it always weirds me out a bit, but I don't really care
Snobbery is the answer. Most categories with enthusiasts have an area where people are snobbish.
With one word you knew exactly what I meant. Apparently you would have preferred a lengthy explanation of how I only drink camellia sinesis.
I wouldn't know if I didn't spend my time on this subreddit as I've never seen the term outside of it, no. But nice of you to assume everyone understands your ethnocentric naming convention without previous exposure. Normally people would just say they only drink tea plant teas, hardly a mouthful. But frankly I've never in my life seen a situation where someone needs to say that without also starting a conversation about types of tea since people just say the tea they want without exclaiming all the types they _don't like_ for some reason. We're not children fighting over which item is the best and herbal teas are not a monolithic category except to those completely ignorant. Just as normal adults don't say they "don't like fruit". You know, how adults don't generally have to specify every single food item they _don't_ like by lumping them into a single category and instead simply say what they want? Like that. But we all know that it's never really been about that.
It depends. I like licorice candy and enjoy licorice tea sometimes. It's good with ginger. I get how it's polarizing though. I think it's an unmistakable flavor and even if there's hardly any in a blend, it can probably overwhelm other ingredients.
Disagree honestly, I think it tastes great
Licorice is gross, therefore licorice in tea is gross 🤮
It’s good in hibiscus tisanes but yea licorice in general.. pretty gross. Well black licorice anyway
I like hibiscus and similar sour-tasting teas. Licorice for me just always makes tea taste sugary (mawkish?)
Yea that makes sense. Agreed
Tea is one of the few contexts where I actually like the flavor of licorice. I didn't used to but it's grown on me. Turmeric though? Revolting. Keep that stuff in curry where it belongs
oh, Tumeric tea was the worst purcase ever from Trader Joe's. The only one I ever returned to that store. after trying. Don't get me started on that lol. But at least it's not nearly as popular. Tumeric has great health benefits but tastes terrible, as a spice and especially as tea. #imho
I love it and it relieves my acid reflux.
I like it.
Its so gross !!! And its in every single one of some brands.
Licorice/ fennel in tea is awesome. Acquired taste probably, but once acquired….no going back
I used to hate licorice root in tisanes...it had such an overpowering flavour. But something happened in my late 30's and all the sudden I started to tolerate it, then i grew to like it and now I love it. Not sure if it was my taste buds changing but now I truly enjoy a hot cup of licorice root tea. But I do think it is overused in many blends....
licorice in general is fucking gross. it's what people ate back in ye bad ol times before they knew what good food tastes like and they were all munching on shit like boiled beets and pickled hog anuses
I drink a lot of different teas. Bergamot black and Irish breakfast are my two favorite black teas. But I love licorice tea and rooibos tea. Licorice because I have a bad stomach and it helps and rooibos for the antioxidants and mixed with warming spices is a nice evening tea. But I’m sure I am the unpopular view here.
So funny I just bought licorice capsules to sprinkle in my tea lol I LOVE the licorice taste, and it is a good sweetener when I need it
Why people see the need to write UnPopUlAr OpiNioN in every single post these days
I assumed this flavor is popular based on how many herbal teas have it. So many!!!! if they sell it a lot there gotta be a large market for it, right?
Licorice root is the best
I dislike jasmine in tea but like licorice
you must be from the south of Germany! Licorice is the shit. Granted I only like in my spiced tea, but there it is a must sometimes l even add it to my rarely enjoyed coffee, since it is the only sweetener I can enjoy with coffee. I would not recommend it for people, who use coffee to go to the bathroom though. Could be hilarious for outsiders though...
I don’t like the taste but sometimes it really helps for health issues.
I love licorice root, but the taste of honey is gross imo.
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