
Fruit tisanes are often blended with non-fruit ingredients. Clockwise from top left: chamomile flowers, lemon verbena leaves, mixed dried fruits/berries, a cocoa nib/spice/rooibos blend and a seed/spice/lemongrass blend
Lindsey Goodwin
Fruit
tisanes are rarely as simple as "apple" or "orange." They are often blends of tisanes (a.k.a. "herbal
teas" or "herbal infusions") that include a particular fruit as a featured flavor. Here are the most common fruit tisane blends on the U.S. market:
- Apple Cinnamon
- Apple Chamomile
- Apricot (often with rooibos and/or other fruits)
- Banana-based blends (Banana is usually blended with chocolate, coconut or other tropical flavors, then the tisane is named for the two most prominent ingredients.)
- Blackberry (often with hibiscus, citrus and other ingredients)
- Blood Orange (often with other fruits and sometimes with rooibos)
- Blueberry (often with hibiscus, citrus and other ingredients)
- Cherry (often with hibiscus, citrus and other ingredients)
- Citrus with Hibiscus (There are many variations on this blend.)
- Coconut blends (Coconut blends often contain rooibos as a base. Some have "coconut" in the name, like "Coconut Cream Pie," while blends with other tropical flavors may have more exotic names, like "Pina Colada" or "Tropical" something.)
- Cranberry (usually with spices, citrus and/or apple bits)
- Lemon Ginger
- Lemon Hibiscus (Celestial Seasonings calls their version of this "Lemon Zinger")
- Mango (often with other exotic fruits and/or "fillers" like rooibos and apple bits)
- Orange Spice
- Peach (often with other fruits)
- Pomegranate (often with other fruits or rooibos)
- Plum (sometimes with rooibos and/or other fruits)
- Raspberry (often with hibiscus, citrus and other ingredients)
- Strawberry (often with rooibos, "cream" flavors or kiwi)
- "Wild" or "mixed" berry blends (a mixture of berries, often with apple bits, hibiscus and/or rooibos)