Flavorful Tea and Fruit Company, LLC

10/11/2026

The tea 🍵 that reigned supreme this week is Mango 🥭 Dragonfruit Lemonade 🍋!

This tea 🍵 is a beautiful 😍 pink/red color and is naturally sweet 😋 💕.

Vanilla Matcha came in as a close second, alongside Lavender Matcha 💜 (which wasn't even a sample).

Apple 🍎 🍏 Jade (a green 💚 Tea with apples and kiwi 🥝 😋) came in third place. As an iced 🧊 tea, the flavor becomes more subtle with fruity notes.

What tea 🍵 👀 🤔 was/is your favorite 😍? Let us know in the comments below.

10/10/2026

We are ready at the Appleton Farmers Market from 8-12:30 in front of Bona Fide Juicery.

Sample:

Vanilla Matcha (we also have our Lavender Matcha and Ube Matcha)

Apple 🍎 🍏 Jade (green tea 🍵 with apples 🍎 and kiwi 🥝)

Mango 🥭 Dragonfruit Lemonade

Mango 🥭 Lemonade Sparkling ✨️ Tea ✨️ 🍵

What tea will reign 👀 🤔 supreme? Let us know in the comments below.

10/09/2026

Tomorrow at the Appleton Farmers Market. Three teas. All free to taste.

🍵 Vanilla Matcha — ceremonial matcha, vanilla bean, coconut milk. Caffeinated. Creamy. The reason people got obsessed with matcha.

🍏 Apple Jade — green tea with apples and kiwi. Crisp, bright, caffeinated. Like an autumn morning in a cup.

🌺 Mango Dragonfruit Lemonade — herbal, caffeine-free, impossibly pink. Mango, hibiscus, lemon, dragonfruit. The one people take a photo of before they drink it.

📍 In front of Bona Fide Juicery — 130 E College Ave, Appleton 🕐 Saturday, Oct 10 | 8 AM – 12:30 PM

Samples are free. No ID required. Come find us.

Traveling the World One Cup at a Time.

10/09/2026

Matcha and green tea start in the same place.

Same plant — Camellia sinensis. Same origin — the tea-growing regions of China and Japan. But about 3-4 weeks before the harvest, something happens to matcha that doesn't happen to any other tea.

The plants are covered. Shaded from direct sunlight.

That single intervention changes the chemistry of the leaf dramatically. Without direct sun, the plant can't photosynthesize normally, so it compensates by producing more chlorophyll — the pigment that turns the leaf from pale green to the vivid, almost electric emerald that matcha is famous for. At the same time, the shade slows the breakdown of L-theanine, an amino acid that promotes calm focus and moderates the spike-and-crash effect of caffeine.

Then at harvest, the best leaves are picked, dried, and stone-ground into a fine powder. Not brewed and discarded. Ground into powder.

When you drink matcha, you're drinking the whole leaf — not just the water that passed through it. That's why matcha has more antioxidants, more caffeine, and more L-theanine per cup than any other tea. You're consuming everything the leaf contains.

The result is what tea drinkers and wellness people call "calm alertness." Caffeinated but focused. Awake but not anxious.

Japanese Buddhist monks discovered this in the 9th century and used it specifically to stay alert during long meditation sessions. The Japanese tea ceremony built an entire aesthetic philosophy around it. Modern matcha lattes are, in a way, a 1,200-year-old tradition in a paper cup.

We wrote the full story on the blog this week — from the Wuyi Mountains to the Zen monasteries to what it actually means to use ceremonial-grade matcha in a tea blend. 🔗Blog available under "Tea Notes" via the website.

And if you want to taste what happens when matcha meets vanilla bean and coconut milk: Vanilla Matcha is at the Appleton Farmers Market this Saturday.

📍 In front of Bona Fide Juicery, Appleton 🕐 Saturday, Oct 10 | 8 AM – 12:30 PM

Traveling the World One Cup at a Time.

Did you know matcha and green tea are the same plant? Drop a 🍵 if that surprised you.

10/07/2026

Matcha is not just green tea. The leaves come from the same plant — but almost everything else about how it's grown, processed, and consumed is completely different.

Regular green tea: steep, remove leaves, drink the infusion.

Matcha: shade-grown for weeks before harvest (which concentrates the chlorophyll into that vivid, almost nuclear green), then stone-ground into a fine powder, then whisked into the water directly. You're not drinking tea. You're drinking the entire leaf.

That's why matcha has more caffeine than most green teas. It's also why it has more L-theanine — the compound that creates what people describe as "calm alertness." Not a coffee spike. Something gentler and more focused.

Our Vanilla Matcha takes ceremonial-grade matcha and combines it with vanilla bean and coconut milk. The matcha brings the depth and the caffeine. The vanilla rounds the bitterness. The coconut milk makes it creamy without being heavy.

We wrote the full matcha story on the blog today — from 9th-century China to Japanese Buddhist monks to the modern matcha latte. https://flavorfulteaco.com/blogs/tea-notes/what-is-matcha-tea 🍵

And if you want to taste it: Vanilla Matcha is at the Appleton Farmers Market this Saturday.

📍 In front of Bona Fide Juicery, Appleton 🕐 Saturday, Oct 10 | 8 AM – 12:30 PM

Traveling the World One Cup at a Time.

Have you ever tried real matcha — not a matcha latte from a coffee chain, but actual ceremonial-grade? Drop a ✅ or ❌.

10/06/2026

There is no good explanation for why this tea is this color. Just drink it.

Mango Dragonfruit Lemonade is the one at the table that people ask about before they taste it. The color — a deep, vivid magenta from the hibiscus and dragonfruit — stops people mid-sentence. Then they taste it.

What's in it: apples, hibiscus, mango, lemon, and dragonfruit. Herbal. Caffeine-free. Absolutely nothing in this tea comes from artificial flavoring.

What it tastes like: tropical and tart, with a brightness from the lemon that makes it feel like something you'd order on a patio in July. Except it's October. Which is exactly when you need it.

This is the tea for the person in your group who says they don't like tea. Bring them Saturday and let them try this first.

📍 In front of Bona Fide Juicery, Appleton 🕐 Saturday, Oct 10 | 8 AM – 12:30 PM

Traveling the World One Cup at a Time.

Are you a mango person? Drop a 🥭 if yes.

10/05/2026

10/05/2026

Two caffeinated. One not. All three are worth tasting this Saturday.

This weekend at the Appleton Farmers Market, we're bringing a lineup that's a little different from the usual:

🍵 Vanilla Matcha — ceremonial-grade matcha with vanilla bean and coconut milk. Caffeinated. Creamy. The reason matcha lattes became a thing.
🍏 Apple Jade — green tea with apples and kiwi. Bright, crisp, caffeinated. What October tastes like if October were a tea.
🌺 Mango Dragonfruit Lemonade — apples, hibiscus, mango, lemon, dragonfruit. Herbal, caffeine-free, and very difficult to describe without just saying "tropical."

Saturday, October 10th, 8 AM – 12:30 PM, in front of Bona Fide Juicery.

Samples are free. Come try something new before the season changes again.

Traveling the World One Cup at a Time.

Which one calls to you first — matcha 🍵, apple jade 🍏, or mango dragonfruit 🌺? Drop your answer in the comments.

10/04/2026

Another Saturday in Appleton. Thank you to everyone who came by, tried something, and let us tell you about moringa for a few minutes.

If you didn't make it but want any of the three — Sweet Espresso, Organic Eucalyptus Rose Serenade, and Raspberry Patch are available online at our online shop (Flavorful Tea and Fruit Company - Shopify), ready to ship anywhere in the US.

And if you want the full story on moringa — the miracle tree that's been used in Ayurvedic medicine for 4,000 years and is one of the most nutrient-dense plants ever documented — the blog post is up this week. Blog post available on the Shopify Shop under "Tea Notes". Worth reading even if you don't drink tea. 🌿

See you next Saturday.

Traveling the World One Cup at a Time.
— Heather, Flavorful Tea and Fruit Company, Menasha, Wisconsin

What's your vote — Sweet Espresso ☕, Eucalyptus Rose Serenade 🌿, or Raspberry Patch 🍓?