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Our fruit tea
Schmidt's fruit teas promise fruity enjoyment in every cup. Enjoy the classic Fruit Breeze or try the Sweet Dreaming, its pastry aroma perfectly matching our sweet specialities. From deliciously caramel to exotically spicy, our fruit teas are a taste experience for young and old.
Vitamin bomb fruit tea
Fruit tea provides you with many important vitamins, as they aren’t lost during drying and therefore end up in your cup. Blends with herbs like mint or roots like ginger give an extra vitamin booster - so fruit tea not only tastes temptingly delicious, but can also do you some real good. Give it a try!
Fruit tea: preparation
Fruit teas that are pure blends of fruits and herbs, such as Schmidt's fruit teas, are very easy to prepare: 1-2 teaspoons of tea per cup (150 ml) are placed in a tea strainer and boiling water is poured over. To allow the aroma of the fruits and herbs to fully develop, steep your fruit tea for about 8 to 10 minutes, depending on how intense you like it.
A longer infusion time is not recommended, as fruit tea can then become very sour (depending on the blend). Sweeten your fruit tea with rock candy, white sugar or honey, or enjoy it straight for a really fruity treat.
Fruit tea: perfect for iced tea
When the temperatures rise and you want to quench your thirst with a cool drink, why not try our fruit teas as iced teas? The preparation is very simple - pour boiling water over fruit tea as usual in a cup or even better in a pot, sweeten as desired, let it cool down and it’s ready. In the summer months, it is best to prepare your iced tea supply in the evening, so it has time to cool down.
Serve the iced tea with ice cubes, and if you want something special, add to the pot or glass, fruit or herbs that match your tea. Apple, strawberries, blackberries or mint in the Fruit Breeze, pineapple or redcurrants in the Sweet Reverie or goji berries in the Herbal Symphony. They harmonise perfectly with our fruit tea and turn a thirst quencher into an incomparable pleasure.
Storing fruit tea
Fruit tea is so popular, mainly because of its intense fruity aroma. To ensure that the aroma remains, it is best to store your fruit tea in a dark, dry place. Metal or glass tea caddies (which are opaque and airtight) are best for this purpose. Fruit tea can take on the aroma and flavour of other foods, so place open tea bags far away from strong-smelling herbs or other teas and ideally use up your fruit tea quickly.
Where does fruit tea come from?
Like herbal tea or rooibos tea, fruit tea is not a "real" tea: real tea leaves are found in only a few fruit tea blends. It is believed that people have been pouring hot water over pieces of fruit to make a fruity hot drink for many years. Fruit tea became really popular at the beginning to middle of the last century. At that time, fruit tea was a substitute for "real" tea and coffee, luxury goods that were hard to come by during wartime.
Classically, a fruit tea contains apple pieces for the mild taste, rosehip for the refreshing aroma, and hibiscus for the red cup colour. Over the course of time, tea manufacturers have brought a wide variety of blends to market, even some with nuts and almonds or pieces of cocoa butter, as in our fruit tea varieties Herzwärmer and Süße Träumerei .