This cinnamon spice tea has LONG been one of my favorite flavor profiles for a recurring delightful cuppa. I just love its taste, its aroma, its silky smoothness going down.
And Harney & Sons Hot Cinnamon Spice Tea has done a tremendous job blending these essential flavors to capture the best on offer for that homey, memory-triggering aroma among the best teas out there.
This taste is an almost addictive guilty pleasure of purely natural sweetness over an uncompromising full-bodied black tea flavor, yet so seductively steeped in its sweet cinnamon orange undergarment.
All this wonderful upside to the tea... there is a darker side you probably also want to know about:
Cinnamon Orange Oil is a perfectly normal, natural ingredient... totally harmless in its general profile... And yet, over time in particularly large recurring quantities, DOES have the oddly annoying chemical effect of WEAKENING TOOTH ENAMEL. And that, as you might expect, is something you will probably start to notice. and may become a problem.
That can mean PHANTOM TOOTHACHES, hot and/or cold SENSITIVITY and some general mouth tingling discomfort which can be really hard to track down until you think about the fact... "Why, yes, indeed... I HAVE BEEN DRINKING A LOT of that cinnamon orange spice tea, and my teeth DO HAVE A TINGLE to them... !!"
But do not panic: This is not anything to worry about too much once you become aware... Just slow your roll; drink a bit less of the tea until your teeth feel more normal again. And for many (if not most) casual occasional drinkers of this tea, you'll never notice this side effect at all. So, ENJOY!
That said... for the more adventurous "let-me-prove-it-myself" types... if you'd like to experience this effect of cinnamon orange oils tingling through your enamel: Just up your intake to, say 3-5 cups spaced out across your day. Within a week or two , I'm guessing you will start to notice what I'm talking about!
I still LOVE THIS TEA, and I am still a REGULAR DRINKER enjoying it immensely, as you can tell from the top part of my review. I am not, however, so much a fan of the ENAMEL TINGLE degradation. So if that creeps into my mouth again, I just taper off to a more sane level when those things start to show up again, and I nip it in the tingly bud and switch to one of my other teas for a while.
Still: FIVE STARS for a GREAT TEA!
Black tea, orange peel, three types of cinnamon, cloves. Contains Natural & Artificial flavors.
