Tea Battle #1 – Pukka Detox Tea VS Traditional Medicinals Roasted Dandelion Root Tea Review

pukka detox tea

I’m a huge fan of both Pukka teas and Traditional Medicinals. They’re both well known companies with lots of research backing each of their products. Traditional Medicinals boasts using medicinal quality herbs. Pukka, from the UK, on the other hand actually launched a supplement line. I decided to try the Pukka detox tea and see how it would compare to a Traditional Medicinals Roasted Dandelion Tea in taste, quality and overall effacicy for this tea battle numero uno.

Round #1 – Ingredients, packaging and price

Pukka – Aniseed seed, Fennel seed, Cardamom seed, Coriander seed, Licorice, Celery seed
Traditional Medicinals – Roasted danelion root (1500 mg)

These teas are both organic and tisane, meaning they’re caffeine free, bonus points in my book.  The teas are both around the same price around $4.99 – $5.99 depending on where you get it.  16 in a box for TM and 20 in a box for Pukka.  In terms of packaging and packaging I have to say Pukka wins on this one. The trendy white box with their signature print all over it clearly states what this tea is for, detox.  The TM box on the other hand tells you what dandelion root is for only on the side of the box, if you can find it (increasing appetite and bile flow i.e. helps your liver function).  More ingredients does not necessarily mean better, especially when TM states the mg dosage you are getting from the herb.  However, because Pukka stated right off the bat what their tea is for I have to declare the winner of round 1 – pukka.

Round 2 – Smell and color

Okay the Pukka tea smells gross! If someone made the casear into a tea this is what it would smell like. It actually smells salty, with a bit of pepper. I think it’s the smell of the celery seeds that is really affecting me. Gross! I can actually imagine tomatoes swimming in my tea now. The color is a nice light yellow. The TM roasted dandelion tea on the other hand smells awesome. The smell is nice and light, the nice roasted honey notes really come through on the nose.  Love it.  The colorr is a deep browish yellow.  Winner TM!

Round 3 – Taste

Okay this was over even before it began, Traditional Medicinals clearly is the winner for taste.  If smell is any indication of taste, in which case it is in many times with tea, TM won.  The TM tea was sweet and not bitter at all.  The pukka tea as I predicted tasted like a warm casear.  I gave my Pukka detox teas away to a lucky reader already.  Overall, I would buy TM again if I wanted to use it for liver detoxification.  The Pukka tea does help with other functions though, aniseed and fennel seed help to relax digestion and flush the urinary system, cardamom seeds can help to clear excess mucus, coriander and celery seed help to wash toxins from the body, and licorice root is calming and tonifying.  So if you want  more of a full body detox and you don’t mind the taste of a warm casear, go for Pukka.

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