The term "healthy" is a term that is often thrown around in the beverage section, and it's important to find out what it means. With a close look at an actual sample, you'll be able to differentiate a true Healthy Iced Tea from those that only claim to be.
Start With the Base Ingredient
Brewed, Not Just Flavored
The single best way to tell the quality is the first ingredient: real tea! Unlike flavored water that has been dressed up to appear like real tea, Jolie's Original flavor starts with rich Brewed Tea, which provides a true foundation.
If you have a chance, review What's Been Left Out.
Sometimes a truly light beverage is one that doesn't contain certain things. This recipe does not include any artificial colors at all, but uses the natural colour of the brewed tea to provide the colour and flavour of the finished product.
However, give a look at Calorie Count Honestly.
Numbers Don’t Lie
This is not just a "Low Calorie Iced Tea," but an actual one, with only 5 calories per can. Then directly compare that number with other bottled teas to see if they are all necessarily lighter.
What's in every can?
- Rich was tea-favoring and made tea as the main ingredient.
- The naturally occurring antioxidant in olives, hydroxytyrosol.
- 5 calories in total per can
- Non GMO ingredients
- 12 oz. per serv, in 12 count
The questions you should ask before using a label.
- Is it made of real tea or flavored water?
- Is it really low in calories as opposed to just being called that?
- Is there any place where artificial colours are used?
- Does the ingredient list contain familiar and few ingredients?
Why Hydroxytyrosol is here.
It is an olive polyphenol naturally occurring, researched with a specific focus on its antioxidant properties and therefore present at a fixed concentration in all cans. This level of detail is important and helps to distinguish a carefully-made beverage from a marketing gimmick.
Final Thoughts
True quality is evident in the details, and it's not in the label. When a drink is made with an honest-to-goodness brewed tea, is a relatively low calorie and does not include artificial cut-and-pastes, it is healthier, not just said to be.