A few months ago I spotted a tweet about olive tea, as I’ve never had olive tea before I was truly intrigued. I was under the impression that you actually need a tealeaf to make a tea… but apparently you don’t.
The owners set up Mirabilia Olive Leaf Tea in an effort to maximise the local resources, to provide employment in an area where work on the land is dying out as the young people migrate to the cities, and most importantly to safeguard the ancient and historic olive groves from the onset of open-cast mining which is absolutely iniquitous in an area of outstanding natural beauty such as Piano La Roma.
I simply adore stories like this and businesses which came to be from the need to help others.
The Mirabilia Organic Olive Leaf Tea as the name suggest is organic. In addition to being delicious, olive leaf tea is also:
- Caffeine and tannin free
- Very high in antioxidants
- Antibiotic
- Anti-viral
- Anti-fungal
- Proven to aid weight loss
- Used to lower blood pressure and cholesterol
- Proven to boost immune system
- Reduced tooth discoloration compared to tea-leaf based tea
So you see, all the benefits… no downside at all 😉
And if you wonder how to prepare olive leaf tea, one short instruction set coming right up…
It is important to brew olive leaf tea properly. Because olive leaves are much thicker than the ordinary tea leaves we are used to using, it needs more time to “develop” the taste.
Mirabilia Olive Leaf Tea is at present sold in three different flavours:
- Organic Olive Leaf Tea
- Organic Olive Leaf Tea with Organic Pomegranate
- Organic Olive Leaf Tea with Lemon and Wild Mint
The Mirabilia Olive Leaf Tea is sold in 30g packs and it costs £4.69 for the pure olive leaf tea or £4.99 for a flavoured option. It can be purchased directly from Mirabilia website or other shops of which the full list you can find here.
Remember that by purchasing Mirabilia tea you are helping to safeguard the artisan traditions of rural Abruzzo.
Have you ever tried olive leaf tea?
Are you a tea lover or more of a coffee junkie?
How interesting! I do love tea, but just the bog standard type! xx
I dont drink normal tea, but this sounds intriguing!
Sounds interesting. I’m not a tea fan at all but I do like the story behind it. Perhaps worth getting it as a gift for someone.
Oh how interesting! I love the sound of this, and the story, and would love to give it a try.
Never heard of olive leaves tea, but it sounds great – I’m an absolute tea junkie, I’d love to give it a try (when there’s some space for more tea in my cupboard ;))
There’s something that makes me feel all fancy shmancy drinking loose tea.
I have never heard of this but would like to give it a try
i so wish i drank tea in any form .. i often feel like not drinking anything hot means i miss out on something! x
im currently going through a huge body change not only did i give up alcohol and cigarettes before christmas but since then have also found out im pregnant too now so have been trying to give up caffeine , this looks interesting though
Ohh I’ve not tried a tea like this before – it definitely sounds interesting and something work keeping around. x
I’ve never tried olive leaf tea. I didn’t know that you could make tea from olive leaves. I’d be intrigued to try it.
Mummy doesn’t drink tea at all – but my biggest sis loves it! She’d love this, I think x
This sounds fab. Never heard of it before, I do like to try other types of tea x
Does it taste like olives?! Just the name wierds me out a bit!
No, not really. The taste of it is quite complex – it is sweet, a little woody and ever so slightly bitter; it is hard to describe actually… this is why I didn’t attempt it in the post 😉
I think you will just have to try it Michelle.
I have never come across this, although I would question anything that stated it was an antibiotic!
If you Google it, there is actually quite a few papers online confirming an antibiotics properties of olive leaf extracts.
I am not saying it works like meds, but research suggests it is helpful 🙂
Very interesting. I’ve given up caffeine so am always looking for tasty alternatives.
I will try it, bet it’s a s great as my soap and the fabulous hand cream :o)
haha
I see you are a huge olive lover.
I actually don’t have any olive based cosmetics in the house; I will have to look for some
I do love a cup of green tea but have never heard of Olive tea before – it sounds really different I must give it a try 🙂
Never heard of this tea before but would quite happily give it a try, sounds quite nice
Intriguing – I’d like to give this a go. I’m a big tea fan.
I have never heard of using olive leaves for tea, but it sounds pretty good. I consume so many other olive related products it makes sense to drink the leaves too 😉