Ice Tea - Sweet or Unsweet?

[BarkerChickens]

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That was something I was waiting to mention here. While I'm not diabetic limiting sugar and carb intake is a priority for me and should be for everyone.

I like that ChooksChick mentioned using Agave and Stevia, both are healthier alternatives. Honey works great too but is still sugar, just better sugar.

DH uses agave nectar in hot tea...sometimes honey. But still, iced tea is unsweetened!!

 

[WriterofWords]

Unsweetened and unpolluted!! I drink a lot of iced tea but I live off of hot tea. If anyone knows of a good outlet for Lady Grey or Prince of Wales loose tea please let me know!

 

[schmije]

Where I come from (the South) sweet tea is a staple. We've been known to give it to kids so young that we have to put it in a sippy cup. At restaurants in the South they ask you if you want it sweet or unsweet. Here in the Midwest people think that sweet tea means adding sugar after you put it in your glass.

 

[vfem]

I do not like sugar in my hot tea (only honey, and only when I'm sick)

But my cold tea is to be sweet! I make it as sun tea on my porch, I fill the container with water and 2 family size tea bags and a couple of slices of lemon, then stir in 1 cup of sugar when I bring it in. Pour over ice, and add the rest to the fridge.

If I want raspberry ice tea, I do it the same but leave out the lemon. I add crushed raspberries fresh when I add the sugar.

I grew up in New England, and my grandmother only made sweet tea then too.

 

[OutInTheStiks]

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Finally, good fighting words!!!

If the spoon won't stand up on the glass that means it's tea flavored syrup, not tea. Why bother with tea at all when Kool Aid tastes the same? Ack!

And yes I did club baby seals a few times but only after drinking a glass of sugar with some water and tea in it.


It's a known fact that people who drink unsweet tea are smarter.

Unsweetened tea is a first cousin once removed from left-over dirty dish water. Neither is fit for human consumption.

 

[DuckLady]

I make a gallon of sweet tea every day or 2. But sugar packs on the pounds, so I switched to using Splenda instead of sugar.

I use a Mr Coffee Iced Tea Maker and use 10 regular sized teabags, the setting on strong, about 3/4 cup of Splenda and use filtered water.

 

[WriterofWords]

Geez Terrie! No wonder you're so sweet!! That Splenda is like twice as sweet as sugar!

 

[DuckLady]

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Yup!!

I discovered sweet tea in North Carolina a couple years back. I was making it with 1 to 1 1/2 cups of sugar per gallon. I figured 3/4 c of Splenda is better for me.

Though the box says to measure cup for cup to sugar for baking, etc.

 

[koop]

A Canadian here:
Sweet all the way, I do drink the powder and the bottled stuff, but the best I've had was made by a friend who my sister was nanny of (what these parents were thinking..........)

Anyway he would boil about five tea bags in about five cups of water and add a couple cups of sugar, it made a syrup that you would add water to.

 

[Karrie13]

It HAS to be sweet tea to be tea at all!

I brew my own and when I make it I make 2-3 gallons at once so that I will be lucky enough to get a cup! I used to put a 1 1/2 cups of sugar per gallon but have reduced it to 3/4 to 1 cup, depends on how I feel.

I am from WV and my husband is from MN soooo... I converted him to sweet tea, along with his brother too, and of course my kids LOVE it!

I also put 1-2 tsp in my hot tea during the LONG COLD winters up here in MN. I do like some of the flavored tea (only hot) my ice tea needs to be black or green.