I hate fruit-flavored teas, and I avoid them at all costs. Apparently, no one told my stepmother this, and I wound up with Pomegranate Red in my Christmas stocking. I was not amused, but I accepted it and put it in the tea cupboard, where it sat until last Tuesday.

I have the psych class of doom this semester, and I have to take some food with to tide me over until I get home (ridiculously late) and have dinner. This, of course, means I’ve been going through the tea like crazy, and after running out of interesting loose-leaf varieties (time to go to the store again) and alternating between white & jasmine tea for a time, I finally looked to the back of the cupboard for something new.

Moroccan Pomegranate Red. Why not?

When I opened my little bottle of tea during break, I expected the worst – the smell made it clear I was drinking one of those dreaded fruity teas. However, I was pleasantly surprised.

Though the odor is strongly pomegranate, the taste is more tea than anything else – you can still detect the fruit, but it’s not as overbearing as the smell would suggest. However, I would still avoid adding too much sweetener to this tea, as it stands very well on its own – a teaspoon of sugar worked just fine for me. Perhaps I’ll be more willing to give similar teas a chance from now on.