Gooseberry-Kiwi – Fruit Infusion

Brew & Taste

Gooseberry-Kiwi tea gives a light yellow-orange infusion after brewing. It truly smells like gooseberries, the taste will impress you with its fruity complexity, you will find sweet and sour notes in it. This tea is perfect hot but, it also tastes great as an iced tea.

Origins

The ingredients we used to blend Gooseberry-Kiwi originate from all around the world. That's why we import them all at once from a leading European supplier who not only prepares them, but above all takes care of their top quality. How, when and where the fruit was harvested, how it was processed and how it was stored is extremely important.

You won't find a pineapple in our latitudes anywhere else but in a greenhouse. It's home lies in the tropics. The most important exporters its fruits are Thailand, China, the Philippines, Costa Rica and Cuba. The pineapple plant (Ananas comosus) is an herb of the bromeliad family that grows to a maximum height of 150cm. It is characterized by a ground rosette of long, often saw-toothed leaves. The formation of the fruit is really interesting: from the center of the rosette grows a stem bearing a cone of flowers, which turn into several hundred berries that grow together. The result is a fruit weighing 0.5-3.5kg. Underneath the skin, it hides a juicy, yellow flesh. Pineapples can be eaten raw, or they can be candied, frozen, dried, pressed or fermented. Due to their bromelin content, they are also used in pharmacology.

Unlike pineapples, gooseberries are a perfectly common garden fruit for Europeans. They grow on bushes about 1m tall of the common gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa), which produce berries with a sweet and very juicy body. In addition to being rich in potassium, silicon, magnesium, phosphorus and calcium, gooseberries are also rich in vitamin C. Although usually eaten fresh, gooseberries can be also made into a delicious jam or chutney.

Actinidia deliciosa, a climbing tree native to China, is extremely prolific. In a good season, it can produce up to 200kg of fruit. These are called kiwi, oval in shape, with brown, furry skin and green flesh with many black seeds. Kiwi is incredibly rich in vitamin C, vitamin E and potassium. For maximum benefit, it is best served raw, even with the skin on. It is processed into juices, desserts and ice cream. It tastes great dried.

We should not skip mentioning apples, even though it's the most common fruit in Europe. Apples contain vitamin C and a large number of antioxidants, and are very popular and easily available. Apple trees (Malus) are naturally found in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere, grow to 15m in height and produce fleshy fruits with few seeds. Apples are of course most delicious fresh, but traditionally they are also dried, pressed into cider or distilled.

Tea packaging preview

We pack our teas in a strong, zip-lock aluminum packet which allows you to easily re-seal its contents. This container protects the quality of the tea against humidity, light or foreign odors, all of which could noticeably affect the quality of the brew.