Doesn't aid sleep but it's so yummy! (Asda Sleep Easy Tea)

Member Name: xxfoxyredxx

Product:	Asda Sleep Easy Tea
Date:	17/09/09 (40 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: tastes and loooks great and is an economical buy

Disadvantages: Didn't help me sleep but did help me chill out a little

I make no secret of the fact that I'm a really bad sleeper so me, well I'll try anything to get a good nights rest! Usually I can be found on here at 3 and 4am slightly losing the plot and I've tried so many aids to help sleeping over the past few years to no real avail! However I do keep trying and so when I saw this product costing a pound I thought it was worth a go and such a change from tea (which I'm addicted to!).

The Packaging....

200g cylinder dark lilac tub with a blue pull on/off lid to the top of it and a picture of a cup and saucer on the front. In white writing I'm told it is Asda Sleep Easy 'Calming and soothing green tea drink with natural camomile and a hint of cinnamon, the perfect drink before bedtime' and that it's a new product and on the bottom of the tub I'm told it can be drank hot or cold. On the back of the tub ingredients, nutritional information, allergy advice, storage and contact details are given for Asda, size is stated, the best before date is displayed, I'm told how to prepare the drink and finally there is a bar-code on there. It's a nice enough tub and I like the way all the information is tidily laid out.

How To Prepare....

Place 3 heaped teaspoons in a cup.
Pour in 200ml of hot, not boiling water and stir.

The Drink....

Well when you open up the tub you are met with a fine white granule kind of powder with is lovely, sweet and smells of what to me smells like honey (though that isn't an ingredient) it just smells so yummy!

As directed I place about 3 heaped teaspoons of the powder in a cup and add water whilst stirring like a mad thing. When I've done that and a happy all the powder has dissolved I'm greeted with a transparent golden liquid. Of course, I choose to drink this at night and when warm but of course you could leave it to cool or put it in the fridge if desired.

Taste wise I love it. It is of course in the main it's green tree though I can't really taste that but I can taste cinnamon and that honey sort of taste I mentioned earlier. It is sweet and full of artificial sweeteners but to be fair it does taste naturally sweet and I've never tasted a powdery feel to the drink at all though I am an excellent stirrer lol

In my view this is a nice, relaxing night time drink however does it aid sleep? No I don't believe so but as I say it is relaxing and doesn't contain any caffeine so that can only be a good thing. I really rate this, sweet camomile and green tea drink for it's ability to soothe and put you in mind for R+R if nothing else.

Allergy Advice....

Contains: Soya.
May contain traces of nuts and/or seeds.

Nutritional Information per 10g (made up as directed):

Energy:38Kcal
Protein: 0.1g
Carbohydrate: 9.1g
of which sugars: 0.8g
Fat: 0.1g
of which saturates: Trace
Fibre: 0.1g
Sodium: Trace
Equivalent as salt: Trace

Only available in Asda Stores.

Summary: I shall be a consumer of this for a good while yet!