This page has two jobs. First, it explains everything printed on the box of sixteen wrapped herbal tea bags we sell: what each ingredient is, and what the research does and does not say about it, including who was in each study, at what amount, and what each study actually measured. Second, and this is the part most advertising pages leave out, it lists the headlines we run about the heart and circulation, tells you which ones are exaggerated, and separates the small number of things that are genuinely supported by evidence from the many that are not.
You almost certainly arrived here from an advertisement. The headline you clicked was written by us and paid for by us to appear next to real news stories. It was designed to make you stop scrolling. Several of our headlines overstate what the science actually shows.
Everything on this site is a paid advertisement for a product we sell. If you buy through a link on any of our pages, we are paid a commission. That is the reason this site exists.
The product is a box of sixteen wrapped herbal tea bags, Organic Hawthorn & Hibiscus Tea, made by Traditional Medicinals of Sebastopol, California and sold by WorldPantry.com, Inc. of South San Francisco, California, which runs the Traditional Medicinals online store as a dietary supplement (the box calls it an herbal supplement). One serving is one tea bag in eight ounces of freshly boiled water, covered and steeped for 10 to 15 minutes and then squeezed, three to four cups a day. It is a tea bag, not something a clinician gives you, it is not meant for any health problem, and no study has ever tested this product itself. No food, drink or supplement on this page is a substitute for your own clinician.
If you are genuinely concerned about your heart or your circulation, the most useful thing you can do is book a visit with your own clinician. A yearly check measures things that no advertisement, no home test and no product can, and it costs you nothing from us. We would rather you close this page and make that call than buy something under a false impression.
If you take anything daily, show the box of this tea to your pharmacist before the first cup.
These are the headlines we have run, grouped by the claim they make, starting with the ones that touch the tea we sell. The right-hand column is our own plain assessment. We have marked each one as Exaggerated, Partly true, Withdrawn, Our headline was wrong or Broadly supported.
| The headline as you saw it | What is actually behind it |
|---|---|
| "This Hawthorn Tea Steeps for Fifteen Minutes. That's One Lap of the Garden Path." | Broadly supported This headline describes the tea and our article accurately. The box asks for eight ounces of freshly boiled water over one bag, covered and steeped for 10 to 15 minutes, and our article follows that direction while the writer walks a garden path. The garden and the neighbor in the article are composites, and the article says so in its first lines. What the headline does not say is that the tea does anything for you, because no study has tested it. Hawthorn has a long place in European herbal books, and the research in people is thin, as section 6 explains. [1] |
| "The Old Hedge Berry Europeans Have Brewed for Centuries Is Back" | Exaggerated The hedge berry is hawthorn, and the "centuries" part is fair: its berries were eaten as food in Europe and China and by Native American tribes, [2] and the European Union keeps an official herbal monograph on its leaf and flower. [3] "Is back" suggests a new finding, and there is none behind that word; it was written to sound like news. The tea we sell does contain hawthorn: a gram of leaf and flower per bag, and berry inside a second gram shared with hibiscus. The federal integrative-health center says there is little or no quality evidence on hawthorn for most uses, and that no studies have tested use beyond 16 weeks. [1] Tradition is the reason a plant gets studied, not a result. |
| "The Red Tea Men Over 60 Are Drinking Every Morning" | Partly true The red tea is hibiscus: the dried red calyces of a tropical flower, brewed tart and deep red, with no caffeine of its own. It is a real drink with a long place in many kitchens, and a 2014 review describes an excellent safety and tolerability record while calling for better controlled trials. [4] Its best-known study with a measurement in healthy adults, 30 people aged 24 to 56 drinking two glasses a day for 30 days, had no comparison group. [5] What we made up is the crowd. We have no count of men over 60 drinking it every morning, and "every morning" was chosen because it sounds like a habit you are missing. The tea we sell carries hibiscus only as part of a 1,000 mg blend with hawthorn berry, less than the 1,260 mg in the same maker's plain hibiscus tea. |
| "Beet Powder: Why Men Over 60 Are Stirring a Spoonful Into Water" | Partly true Beet root is sold for its dietary nitrate. About 80% of the nitrate we eat comes from vegetables, and the body turns part of it into nitrite, and from there into nitric oxide, a molecule involved in how blood vessels widen. [6] That part is real. The studies behind the story used juice and whole foods, not a spoonful. Half a liter of beetroot juice a day for six days lowered the oxygen cost of walking by about a fifth in nine fit young men, [7] and a single day of nitrate-rich food with juice changed blood flow in one region of the brain in older adults averaging about 75. [8] The tea we sell contains no beet and prints no nitrate figure. "Men over 60 are stirring" is our phrase, not a survey. |
| "CoQ10 After 60: What Your Body Makes Less Of" | Partly true Coenzyme Q10 is real, and your body makes its own: it is needed to turn the energy in food into the form cells use, and its concentration in a number of tissues falls gradually with age, though it is unclear whether that fall amounts to a shortage. [9] What the headline skips is the jump from "the body makes it" to "a softgel tops it up". "After 60" is our framing: no birthday switches it off. The tea we sell contains no CoQ10. |
| "Olive Leaf: The Mediterranean Leaf Behind a New Morning Habit" | Exaggerated The Mediterranean eating pattern is food on a plate: three to nine servings of vegetables a day, fruit, cereals, fish, and olive oil for much of its fat. [10] An extract of the olive tree's leaf is not that pattern, it is not olive oil, and it is not a meal. The European Union accepts olive leaf only on the basis of traditional use, [11] and borrowing the reputation of a whole way of eating for a leaf extract was our shortcut, not the evidence. The tea we sell contains no olive leaf. See section 3. |
| "The 20-Minute Walk That Beats 10,000 Steps" | Partly true The useful half: 10,000 steps a day is popular advice, not a guideline, and the federal activity guidelines use a 20-minute walk as their own worked example of setting a daily goal. [12] The overstated half is "beats". The guidelines set a weekly range of 150 to 300 minutes of moderate activity such as brisk walking, plus muscle-strengthening on two or more days, [13] and bouts of any length count toward it. [12] A 20-minute walk every day adds up to 140 minutes a week, just under the lower end: a fine start, not a finish line. See section 5. |
| "Your Pulse Says More Than You Think. Take the 10-Second Wrist Test" | Our headline was wrong There is no 10-second wrist test. Counting your pulse is a real skill: two fingers below the base of the thumb, counting for a full minute or for 30 seconds and doubling, and for adults a resting rate of 60 to 100 beats a minute is considered normal. [14] A count tells you a count, and counting for ten seconds and multiplying by six only makes a one-beat slip six times bigger. See section 4. |
| "Can You Climb 4 Flights of Stairs in a Minute? What It Means After 60" | Exaggerated Stairs are good activity, and the activity guidelines say even climbing a few flights counts toward your week. [12] A stopwatch on a staircase, read against a number in an advertisement, means nothing: fitness, knees, the height of the steps and last night all change the time. The guidelines ask older adults to judge their effort against their own fitness, not against a stranger's number. [15] If stairs feel different from how they felt a few months ago, mention it at your next visit. |
| "The Salt Swap Men Over 60 Are Making at Breakfast" | Broadly supported The broad idea holds. Americans eat on average about 3,400 mg of sodium a day against a limit of less than 2,300 mg, about one teaspoon of table salt, [16] and that limit applies to everyone 14 and older, not only after 60. [17] What we got wrong is the shaker. Over 70% of sodium comes from packaged and prepared foods, so the swap that matters is at the label, where 5% of the Daily Value or less per serving is low and 20% or more is high. [16] The tea we sell: The panel prints no sodium line. |
An honest answer: these headlines appear beside real news stories, competing for attention with everything else on the page, and dramatic phrasing gets clicked. That is the incentive, and we are subject to it like every other advertiser.
It is also why this page exists. Once you are here, you are entitled to know exactly which claims we can stand behind and which ones were written to get your attention. Everything below is the sober version.
Our headlines have pointed at "the morning drink", "the red tea", a spoonful of beet and a drink "before bed", often without naming them. Here is each drink we were pointing at, and what the sources actually support. Where a study is cited, we say who was in it and what it measured; a short-term measurement in a small group is not a health outcome.
The tea behind the "hedge berry" headline · Long tradition, thin research in people
What the research says. Each bag holds a gram of hawthorn leaf and flower and a second gram of hawthorn berry and hibiscus together. The European Union's herbal monograph lists a tea of 1 to 2 g of dried hawthorn leaf and flower in 150 ml of boiling water, up to four times a day, at most 6 g a day, [3] so a bag sits at the low end of that range and the label's three to four cups a day stay under the ceiling. The federal integrative-health center says there is little or no quality evidence on hawthorn for most uses and that no studies have tested use beyond 16 weeks. [1] The main flavonoids of the leaf are poorly absorbed in cell and animal studies, [18] and only a few studies have looked at how the body handles them at all. [19]
Honest verdict. A fruity, tart cup with no caffeine and zero calories, and a pleasant reason to sit down in the afternoon. It has never been tested as this box, and we make no claim for it beyond taste and ritual.
About the product we sell. The side panel of the box asks anyone who takes anything daily for the heart or circulation, and anyone who is pregnant or breastfeeding, to consult a healthcare practitioner before use, so show the box to your pharmacist before your first cup.
The "morning drink" in most versions · No reason in our sources to give it up
What the research says. The US Food and Drug Administration cites 400 mg of caffeine a day, about two to three 12-ounce cups of brewed coffee, as an amount not generally associated with negative effects in most healthy adults; a 12-ounce cup holds 113 to 247 mg, and too much can bring a faster heartbeat, jitters, an upset stomach, a headache and a poor night. [20] The European safety panel reached a similar place: single doses up to 200 mg and daily intakes up to 400 mg raise no safety concerns for healthy adults. [21]
Honest verdict. If you enjoy plain coffee, keep it, earlier in the day. What goes into the cup, syrups and sugar, deserves more attention than the coffee.
About the product we sell. The box says it has no caffeine, and neither hawthorn nor hibiscus comes from the tea plant.
The other "morning drink" · A real short-term measurement, in small studies
What the research says. In 21 healthy women, both green and black tea made the arm artery widen more easily two hours after drinking than water did, by about the same amount. [22] A meta-analysis of nine studies found the same direction at about 500 ml a day, two to three cups, with results that varied widely, and all three of its authors worked for a company that sells tea. [23] In one small study of 16 women, adding 10% skimmed milk erased that short-term effect. [24]
Honest verdict. A pleasant habit with a real, short-lived measurement behind it. It is not a health outcome, and it does not carry over to hawthorn or hibiscus, which are different plants. One study of 16 people is not a rule about milk.
The "red tea" in our headlines · Part of the second gram in the tea we sell
What the research says. Hibiscus is brewed from the dried red calyces of Hibiscus sabdariffa: tart, deep red and naturally without caffeine, with two anthocyanin pigments for its color and organic acids, hibiscus acid among them, for its tartness. [4] Very little of the pigment reaches the blood intact: in six volunteers about 0.018% of the anthocyanins in a hibiscus drink appeared intact in urine, with blood levels peaking about 1.5 hours after drinking. [25] In eight healthy volunteers, one hibiscus drink raised a laboratory measure of the blood's antioxidant capacity compared with water, a marker rather than a health outcome. [26] In an uncontrolled 30-day study of 30 healthy adults aged 24 to 56 who drank two glasses a day, fitness tests scored higher at the end than at the start, with no comparison group. [5] In a preliminary study, 16 days of hot hibiscus infusion raised the aluminium passed in urine, and some volunteers reported mild nausea and dizziness. [27]
Honest verdict. A good cup with no caffeine, hot or iced. Anything beyond taste depends on small studies with real limits. If you take anything daily, show the box to your pharmacist first, and if you are pregnant, go easy on large amounts. [27]
The drink behind the "nitric oxide" and "beet powder" headlines · Real measurements, at juice-sized amounts
What the research says. About 80% of dietary nitrate comes from vegetables, and the body turns part of it into nitrite with the help of bacteria in the mouth. [6] In nine healthy, physically active young men, half a liter of beetroot juice a day for six days lowered the oxygen cost of walking compared with the same juice stripped of its nitrate. [7] In older adults averaging about 75, a single day of nitrate-rich food that included beet juice left overall blood flow to the brain unchanged and raised it in one frontal region on a scan. [8]
Honest verdict. The studies used glasses of juice and plates of vegetables. The tea we sell contains no beet. Beet can turn urine and stool pink or red for a day, harmlessly.
The "drink before bed" in some versions · Less is better
What the research says. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025–2030, advise consuming less alcohol for better overall health, and say it should be avoided entirely by people who take anything daily that can interact with it. [28]
Honest verdict. Cutting back is sound advice, and nothing we sell offsets a drink. If you drink heavily every day, do not stop abruptly on your own: ask your clinician how to cut back.
Part of every "drinks to avoid" headline · Broadly supported
What the research says. The same guidelines advise avoiding sugar-sweetened beverages such as sodas, fruit drinks and energy drinks, keeping fruit or vegetable juice to limited portions or diluting it with water, and keeping any one meal to no more than 10 grams of added sugars. [28]
Honest verdict. The easiest swap on this page: water, sparkling water, or unsweetened tea or coffee. An unsweetened herbal cup counts as one of those.
About the product we sell. The panel lists zero calories; anything sweet in the cup is what you stir in. Honey counts as sugar: USDA figures list it at about 82 g of carbohydrate per 100 g, with a tablespoon weighing 21 g. [29]
The drink our ads rarely name · The caffeine and sugar add up fast
What the research says. A 16-ounce energy drink can carry 70 to 240 mg of caffeine and an energy shot 113 to 200 mg, against about 100 mg in an 8-ounce cup of coffee, and a 16-ounce can may hold 54 to 62 grams of added sugar; large amounts of caffeine can raise heart rate. [30]
Honest verdict. One can may carry more caffeine than two 8-ounce cups of coffee and more than five meals' worth of the per-meal sugar limit above. Worth leaving on the shelf, at any age.
The drink our headlines never name · The cheapest move on this page
What the research says. A 2005 report from the National Academies set the Adequate Intake for total water, from drinks and food together, at 3.7 liters a day for men aged 19 to 30, about 3.0 liters of it from drinks; day-to-day intake driven by thirst and drinks at meals keeps hydration normal, and coffee and tea still count toward the total. [31] The current guidelines say to choose water, still or sparkling, and unsweetened drinks. [28]
Honest verdict. It costs nothing and cannot be sold in a box of tea. We leave it out of our advertising for the obvious reason, and we are putting it back in here.
We do not print a list, and you should not act on one from an advertisement. Do not stop, reduce or skip anything a clinician gave you because of this page or any of our headlines.
Put everything you take, including what you buy over the counter, into one bag with this box of tea and take it to your pharmacist. Ask: "Is anything here a poor fit at my age, and does anything here argue with this?" The side panel of the box asks anyone who takes anything daily for the heart or circulation, and anyone who is pregnant or breastfeeding, to consult a healthcare practitioner before use, so show the box to your pharmacist before your first cup.
The food headlines referred to "3 foods to stop eating", a salt swap, a Mediterranean leaf and "nitric oxide". The number three was ours, not a finding. Here is what was meant, and what stands behind it.
The "3 foods" and the "salt swap" · Broadly supported
What the research says. Americans eat on average about 3,400 mg of sodium a day against a limit of less than 2,300 mg, about one teaspoon of table salt; over 70% of it comes from packaged and prepared foods, and the top sources include deli-meat sandwiches, pizza, burritos and tacos, soups and savory snacks. [16] The limit applies to everyone 14 and older, and the guidelines add that highly active people may need more sodium to offset sweat. [17]
Honest verdict. Read the sodium line: 5% of the Daily Value or less per serving is low, 20% or more is high. [16] Cooking more at home moves the number further than any shaker.
Usually two of the "3 foods" · Broadly supported
What the research says. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025–2030, advise avoiding highly processed packaged, prepared or ready-to-eat foods that are salty or sweet, such as chips, cookies and candy, [17] and swapping deep-fried cooking for baked, broiled, roasted, stir-fried or grilled. [32]
Honest verdict. Worth moderating, as a pattern rather than a ban. Not undone by any supplement or any tea, including ours.
Where most dietary nitrate comes from · Real measurements, in small studies
What the research says. Two day-long menus built on the same vegetable-rich eating plan delivered anywhere from 174 mg to 1,222 mg of nitrate, depending only on which vegetables and fruits were chosen. [6] In 30 healthy men and women, a single meal with nitrate-rich spinach raised markers of nitric oxide in the blood and was followed by a greater widening of the arm artery on ultrasound than a control meal. [33] The guidelines set a goal of 3 servings of vegetables and 2 of fruit a day on a 2,000-calorie pattern. [32]
Honest verdict. A plate of vegetables is the original nitric oxide product, and it comes with fiber and potassium that no box copies.
The mineral printed beside sodium on the label · Food first
What the research says. The Adequate Intake of potassium is 3,400 mg a day for men and 2,600 mg for women, and the listed sources include beans, lentils, tomatoes, potatoes with the skin, sweet potatoes, soy, winter squash, citrus fruits, cantaloupe, bananas, kiwi, prunes, apricots, milk, yogurt, nuts, meats and fish. [34]
Honest verdict. Get it from food, and from the garden if you keep one. Ask before a potassium supplement, especially if you take anything daily. [34]
The "omega-3" food behind many headlines · Supported as food
What the research says. A 3-ounce cooked serving of farmed Atlantic salmon carries about 1.24 g of DHA and 0.59 g of EPA, Atlantic herring 0.94 g and 0.77 g, and sardines canned in tomato sauce 0.74 g and 0.45 g, against about 0.17 g and 0.02 g in light tuna canned in water. [35] The guidelines name omega-3-rich seafood among sources of healthy fat, [32] and the side effects of omega-3 supplements are usually mild, such as an unpleasant taste, heartburn or an upset stomach. [36]
Honest verdict. Two fish meals a week is a habit, not a purchase.
Behind the "Mediterranean leaf" headline · The pattern is supported as a pattern
What the research says. A review that defined the Mediterranean pattern in numbers described three to nine servings of vegetables, half to two of fruit, one to thirteen of cereals and up to eight servings of olive oil a day, with about 33 g of fiber. [10] The current guidelines name olive oil among the sources of healthy fat, [32] and swapping deep-fried cooking for baked, broiled, roasted or grilled is part of the same advice. [32]
Honest verdict. The pattern is a whole kitchen, not an extract. If the Mediterranean idea is what interested you, the olive oil and the vegetables are in the grocery store.
Drink more plain water. Drink less alcohol and fewer sugary drinks. Keep your coffee or tea if you enjoy them, earlier in the day, and go easy on what you stir into them. Read the sodium line on packaged food. Eat more vegetables, beans, fruit, fish and olive oil, and less from the fryer and the snack aisle. Every one of those changes costs nothing extra, and none of them requires anything we sell.
Several of our headlines invite you to test yourself at home: count your pulse for ten seconds, time yourself on four flights of stairs, take "the 10-second test". None of them is a validated test, and we cannot give you a real one, because a real check does not work that way.
What a home count can honestly tell you. Three things, and only these:
Of the eight components in the American Heart Association's own scoring, four are daily habits and four are measurements of the body that are best checked with a clinician. [39] No count, stopwatch or quiz on an advertising page can stand in for those.
If our headline worried you, take the worry to your own clinician at your next visit, or sooner if something has changed. If it was only a startling headline, the reassurance you want cannot come from a test in an advertisement, including ours.
If we only had one section to be useful in, this would be it. None of these is a supplement or a list of three foods, and none of them can be sold to you by us.
These are unglamorous. They cannot be delivered in a headline, they take years, and they are, by a wide margin, the most useful things on this entire page.
What each ingredient printed on the box of Organic Hawthorn & Hibiscus Tea is, what it is traditionally used for, and what the cited research says, including who was in each study, at what amount, for how long, and what each study actually measured. One serving is one tea bag in eight ounces of freshly boiled water, covered and steeped for 10 to 15 minutes and then squeezed, three to four cups a day. The panel, line by line: organic hawthorn (Crataegus) leaf and flower, 1,000 mg per bag; a proprietary blend of organic hawthorn (Crataegus) berries and organic hibiscus (Hibiscus sabdariffa) flower, 1,000 mg per bag, with no split printed between the two; zero calories; all ingredients certified organic. Three plain notes on that panel. Hawthorn leaf and flower is the only line with its own amount, 1,000 mg per bag, which is the low end of the 1 to 2 g per cup that the European monograph lists for a tea of this plant part. Hawthorn berry and hibiscus share a 1,000 mg proprietary blend with no split printed; the same maker's plain hibiscus tea carries 1,260 mg of hibiscus per bag, so the hibiscus here is less than that. No study has tested these ingredients together, or this tea.
The dried flowering branches of the hawthorn: lobed leaves with clusters of small white flowers, cut in spring. It is the part of the plant described in the European Pharmacopoeia, which requires at least 1.5% total flavonoids in the dried material.[42]
Traditional and everyday use. Used as a tea and a liquid extract in European herbal practice; the European Medicines Agency classes it as a traditional-use herbal product, based on at least 30 years of use rather than on clinical trials.[43]
What the research says. Its main compounds are flavonoid glycosides (vitexin, vitexin-2''-rhamnoside, hyperoside, quercetin), catechin, epicatechin and procyanidins.[42] The European regulator found the clinical evidence insufficient and noted a lack of clinical studies.[43] How the body handles these compounds is largely unknown: in cell and animal studies the leaf flavonoids were poorly absorbed.[19] [18] In laboratory tests on isolated animal blood vessels, two hawthorn compounds widened the vessels only at concentrations far above those measured in human blood.[44] For comparison, the European monograph lists a tea of 1 to 2 g of dried leaf and flower per cup, up to four cups a day.[3] We make no claim beyond this.
Amount per serving in Organic Hawthorn & Hibiscus Tea · 16 wrapped tea bags. 1,000 mg (half of each bag)
Good to know. Side effects can include dizziness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and muscle aches.[1] The European monograph does not recommend it during pregnancy or breastfeeding or for children.[3] If you take anything daily, especially for the heart and circulation, show the label to your pharmacist first.
The small red fruit, or "haw," of the hawthorn, a thorny shrub or tree of the rose family that grows in temperate regions of Europe, Asia, North Africa and North America. The berries ripen in the fall, when they are harvested.
Traditional and everyday use. Eaten as a food by Native American tribes and for centuries in Europe and China, where the fruit is known as shanzha.[2]
What the research says. The berry and the leaf are chemically different: in a North American hawthorn, the leaves held several times more hyperoside than the fruit and a family of vitexin flavones that the fruit held only in traces, while both held epicatechin and procyanidins.[45] In a European hawthorn, the unripe fruits held the most phenolic compounds and the ripe fruits more sugars.[46] These are analyses of the plant, not studies in people: we found no trial of the berry alone in healthy adults, and we make no claim for it. The National Institutes of Health says there is little or no quality evidence on hawthorn for most uses.[1]
Amount per serving in Organic Hawthorn & Hibiscus Tea · 16 wrapped tea bags. part of a 1,000 mg blend (the label does not split the blend)
Good to know. Side effects can include dizziness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and muscle aches, and little is known about use during pregnancy or breastfeeding.[1] Hawthorn is sold for the heart and circulation: if you take anything daily, show the label to your pharmacist before adding it. Buy it from a maker who names the plant part, because some products sold as "tejocote root" (Mexican hawthorn root) were found to contain a toxic plant.[1]
Roselle is a hibiscus of the mallow family, likely native to parts of Africa and carried to Asia and the West Indies in the 16th and 17th centuries. The part used for tea is the calyx, the fleshy red cup around the seed pod, dried and steeped: its color comes from two anthocyanins and its tartness from organic acids, hibiscus acid among them.[4] [47]
Traditional and everyday use. Steeped hot or cold around the world: as agua fresca (agua de Jamaica) in Mexico, Central America and Colombia, as karkade in Sudan and Egypt, and as sorrel in much of the English-speaking Caribbean; in the United States it is also called Florida cranberry or Jamaica sorrel. It is used as a food, in hot and cold drinks and as a flavoring.[4]
What the research says. Its main compounds are phenolic acids, organic acids (hydroxycitric and hibiscus acid) and two anthocyanins, delphinidin- and cyanidin-3-sambubioside.[4] Cold water for about four hours draws out as much of those red pigments as hot water for 16 minutes, and the cold cup keeps its color better.[47] Very little of the pigment reaches the blood intact: in six volunteers about 0.018% of the anthocyanins in a hibiscus drink appeared in urine, with blood levels peaking about 1.5 hours after drinking.[25] In eight healthy volunteers, one hibiscus drink raised the blood's antioxidant capacity compared with water, a laboratory marker and not a health outcome.[26] In an uncontrolled 30-day study of 30 healthy adults aged 24 to 56 who drank two glasses of roselle tea a day, fitness tests scored higher at the end than at the start, with no comparison group.[5] No claim for the heart or circulation is made here for hibiscus.
Amount per serving in Organic Hawthorn & Hibiscus Tea · 16 wrapped tea bags. part of a 1,000 mg blend (the tart, red note; less of it than in the plain hibiscus tea (1,260 mg per bag))
Good to know. A 2014 review describes an excellent safety and tolerability record.[4] The cup is tart and acidic. In a preliminary study, 16 days of hibiscus infusion raised the aluminium passed in urine, and some volunteers reported mild nausea and dizziness; the authors advise caution with large amounts during pregnancy.[27] Both tea boxes ask you to consult a healthcare practitioner before use if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. If you take anything daily, show the box to your pharmacist before your first cup.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. This information does not constitute medical advice and it should not be relied upon as such. This product is not a substitute for medication or other treatment prescribed by a physician or health care provider. Consult your doctor before starting any dietary supplement.
Set against the headlines that brought you here, this is the complete and honest position.
Things we cannot promise, and that nobody selling you a box of tea can:
Things we can say honestly:
Yes. The tea we sell has a gram of hawthorn leaf and flower per bag, and berry inside a second gram shared with hibiscus.
Yes. It is a tart flower tea with no caffeine, and the tea we sell carries some of it inside a 1,000 mg blend.
The label does not say why. It asks for a covered cup and that long a steep, and our article follows it.
The FDA cites 400 mg of caffeine a day as an amount not generally associated with negative effects in most healthy adults. [20] Too much can bring a faster heartbeat and jitters, so keep it earlier in the day.
One small study of 16 women found that milk erased tea's short-term effect on how easily the arm artery widens. [24] One study is not a rule, and it was about tea from the tea plant, not hawthorn.
There is no official step number, and 10,000 is popular advice. Set minutes first: 150 to 300 a week of brisk walking or similar. [12] [13]
Fast enough that you can talk but not sing. [37] In healthy adults aged 61 to 85, that began at about 100 steps a minute. [38]
Yes: count for a full minute, or for 30 seconds and double it, and 60 to 100 at rest is considered normal for adults. [14] A count is a count, not a check-up.
The box says it has no caffeine, and neither hawthorn nor hibiscus comes from the tea plant. The panel lists zero calories; anything sweet in the cup is what you stir in. The panel prints no sodium line.
Possibly, so take the box to your pharmacist before the first cup. The side panel of the box asks anyone who takes anything daily for the heart or circulation, and anyone who is pregnant or breastfeeding, to consult a healthcare practitioner before use, so show the box to your pharmacist before your first cup.
the store's satisfaction promise says that if you are not absolutely satisfied with your purchase, for any reason, you let the store know and it will promptly replace the item or refund its purchase price; requests go in within 90 days, it covers orders from the online store, and shipping is not refunded unless the store made an error.
Do not take our word for it: every numbered reference below is a real, published source you can look up. Where a headline and this page disagree, believe this page.
No. Read it, close the tab and never come back, if you like.
These are the sources behind the claims marked with a number above. Most are government guidance, European regulatory documents or small, short studies. The hawthorn sources describe tradition, chemistry, and cell, animal or laboratory work, and the federal fact sheet says the evidence in people is thin; the hibiscus studies had six, eight and thirty people, and the thirty-person one had no comparison group; the tea meta-analysis was written by employees of a tea company; the beet juice study was in nine fit young men; the fact sheets are the governments' own. None of them tested this tea. We have deliberately not cited anything for the claims we describe as exaggerated, because there is nothing to cite.
Citing a study does not mean the study is about this product. The studies above tested one food, drink or ingredient at a time, in other people, at their own amounts; none of the research tested Organic Hawthorn & Hibiscus Tea, and none of it supports it.
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