Honest Ade: My New Fave!

I tried a new drink today! Honest Ade, a variety of drinks from the company Honest Tea, is the newest drink to hit the shelves of the retail dining store in my residence hall. Although it’s completely new to me, the company has been around for almost ten years, emphasizing their “honesty” in business and their organic, fair trade, and other quality standards. The drink itself was Pomegranate Blue, a 10% juice blend of pomegranate and blueberry. It was super refreshing—lightly sweet and cold.

I decided to research this company’s “honest” tea. Everything on the web about the company is positive. Reading through the company website, I was pleasantly shocked to find that Honest Tea has a flavor called “First Nation Peppermint”. Wow, two topics I am always interested to hear about: Native American culture and herbs. Apparently Honest Tea works with a small herbal business called I'tchik Herb that is run out of the Crow reservation in Montana. There, Honest Tea has created more jobs (thus improving an unemployment rate of 67%) by developing the land to grow more of the peppermint plants that are indigenous to that area. How cool! Drinking peppermint tea is a tradition in the Crow community, and Honest Tea uses both the peppermint and the tea recipe from their community for its product.

If you decide to try one of Honest Tea’s drinks (and I hope you do), try the First Nation Peppermint! Honest Tea also works with other economically underprivileged communities—visit the Honest Tea website for more information.

Comments

So sad... I'll have to give it a try!!

Posted by: cottonja at April 14, 2007 06:05 PM