Waka Instant Green Tea Mix, Classic – 100% Tea Leaves, No Additives, Unsweetened Tea Powder for 50 Quarts or 200 Cups – Easy Quick Hot and Iced Teas (4.5oz)

A little goes a LONG WAY.
I got this tea on sale thinking it was stevia sweetened and would make a refreshing iced green tea. Let me tell you about my first foray with this tea. I added a heaping teaspoon of powder onto a 32 oz glass of hot water and added a few shots of stevia liquid. It was darker than I remember green tea being. My first taste and I wanted to gag. The taste was soooooooo bad that I got an instant headache and I almost dumped it down the drain. I am glad I did not. I added more stevia and tried it again. No change whatsoever, still overpowering. Instead, I got a fresh 32 oz glass of ice water and added about 2 ounces of the tea /stevia tar from the original 32oz glass into the fresh one and mixed it up. Wow, the color was a beautiful light green that I expected to see. The flavor was outstanding. I then dumped the rest of the 32oz glass into a 2 gallon pitcher and ended up with 2 gallons of refreshing sweet tea. The directions call for 1/4 tsp. Personally even that much seems like a lot and was way too much. Today, I mix a slightly full teaspoon powder into 2 gallons of water and add the sweetener and it is great! I love this tea now and smells good in the cabinet once you open the package. I paid $8 on Amazon for the bag. I am not sure that I would pay $15. Buy it on sale and try diluting it if you do not like the taste. You may find that the right balance is based on how much water you use. I will say that as HOT tea with sugar, it seems to be better but I still use less powder than recommended. I purchased the mango flavored green tea.

I love Waka tea!
I love the variety of flavors that Waka offers. The pineapple makes some of my favorite loaded teas. I also love the chai, as it’s so hard to find a good chai tea that is also sugar free.

Doesn’t dissolve in cold water well
I love this tea, but for those people wanting to enjoy it as a cold beverage, please do not dissolve it it cold water. It is better enjoyed after dissolving it in warm water, and then putting it on ice. It will not dissolve well in cold water…but it has a pleasant flavor after dissolving in warm water. I first thought it was yellow turmeric powder, but after having used it in warm water and icing it, it does appear to be green tea. This may be a good thing, as it may prove that it is authentic green tea. Anyway… I hope that the flavor of this tea is pleasant to other people. It was bitter when dissolved in cold water, but good when dissolved in warm water.

Loaded Tea at home for under $1 – yes, please!!!
One of Herbalife’s MLM ‘Nutrition Club’-s opened here in East Bumf*** and I have a friend who was posting on social media several times a week about how yummy they were, how much they energized her or made her feel re-energized after being depleted in the heat, mowing her yard, etc. Curiousity got the better of me… THOSE COLORS 😍 THE FLAVORS/NAMES 🤤. Looked the biz up and while the menus all appeared online, there were no prices. Called my friend and – y’all, when I tell you that $8 for a 20oz drink OFFENDED me!! This is a town where the ‘rich people’ would be considered lower middle class. That kinda thing makes me weirdly petty; like I’m not gonna bash but I will find your recipes and make that stuff myself!! (This is how I learned the Herbalife shops are the modern MLM structure, at least for the brand, via an Eater.com article from last year.)FWIW: The brand’s “N•R•G” is literally guarana powder and the brand’s “Beauty Blend” is literally just [water soluble, consumable] collagen powder.While looking for recipes based on the menu from the local shop (Pinterest), I stumbled upon an app for SILVER LINING LESSONS Not an Herbalife affiliate, that I can tell so far [at least not so far as the drinks I’ve made having any Herbalife ingredients] and each recipe – well over 220, I believe – gives an approximate cost per 32 Oz cup.The front runner for my taste buds so far has been Pep Rally, which called for this Waka Green Peach Tea powder. Do not be thrown by how pricey a 4.5 Oz bag is – it makes up to 200 servings. That’s less than a dime per!! Literally the most expensive ingredient, depending on the price of the guarana powder.The smell of the dry powder is very peachlicious; the flavor isn’t bitter like most green tea I’ve had (to be fair, once you’ve added half a packet of pineapple passion fruit drink mix, half a packet of citrus and orange energy drink mixes, and half a packet of another orange drink mix, 32 Oz of ice and about 10 Oz water (I’m not using aloe Vera juice) you’ll arrive at your ‘less than a buck per serving’. I mix all my stuff in my blender til slushee consistency, pour it in my 40 Oz tumbler, and sip it all day.

I tried mixing it with many things to get rid of the horrible taste that stays