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Wellbeing & allergens
How we describe our teas, what every label means, and when to check with a professional first.
Foods, not medicines
Our teas are foods. When we say a blend is good for winding down, a morning lift or after dinner, we're describing the moments and traditions it's enjoyed for — not promising to prevent, treat or cure anything. Information on this site is general and isn't medical advice.
Please check with your healthcare professional before drinking herbal teas if you're pregnant, breastfeeding, trying to conceive, taking medication or managing a health condition. Tales that contain herbs commonly advised against at those times are marked “Not pregnancy-friendly” and carry a caution on their page.
Caffeine
Every tale shows its caffeine level, based on its ingredients:
- Caffeine free — any time, day or night.
- Low caffeine — a gentle lift.
- Medium caffeine — a steady lift.
- High caffeine — a bold wake-up.
What “contains” means
Each tale lists what it contains, so you can steer around anything you avoid. These are the labels we use (soon you'll be able to filter the whole shelf by them):
- Caffeine
- Hides blends containing tea leaves, mate, guayusa, cacao or coffee.
- Liquorice
- Hides blends with liquorice root.
- Hibiscus
- Hides blends with hibiscus.
- Citrus
- Hides blends with citrus fruit, peel or citrus oils (lemon, orange, bergamot, lime…).
- Nuts
- Hides blends with nuts, nut pieces, nut flavours or coconut.
- Dairy
- Hides blends with milk powder, yoghurt or other dairy.
- Gluten
- Hides blends with gluten-containing ingredients (barley, wheat, malt…).
- Soy
- Hides blends with soy.
- Added flavouring
- Hides blends with natural or artificial flavouring.
- Added sugar & sweeteners
- Hides blends with sugar pieces, candy, chocolate pieces, stevia or other sweeteners.
- Daisy family
- Hides blends with daisy-family (Asteraceae) plants such as chamomile, calendula, echinacea, dandelion and yarrow — relevant for ragweed allergies.
- Not pregnancy-friendly
- Hides blends containing herbs commonly advised against during pregnancy or breastfeeding. Always check with your healthcare professional.
“May contain traces of…”
Some of our teas are blended and packed in facilities that also handle nuts, soy, sesame or gluten. Where a blender tells us so, the tale says “May contain traces of…”. If you have a severe allergy, take this statement seriously even when the ingredients themselves look fine.
Cautions on each tale
Specific notes — liquorice and blood pressure, hibiscus and blood-pressure medication, daisy-family flowers and ragweed allergy, herbs that interact with medicines — appear in the “Good to know” section of each tale and on the page for each ingredient in our ingredient library.