So the infamous Red Raspberry Leaf Tea!
We've talked about how much of it you should drink.
We've talked about different ways to get it in a different taste test.
But now I have a new way that I found on Amazon!
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So I found these...a client actually came in with these last week and showed them to me. I had never even heard of them.
Coincidentally one of my mamas on social media had actually messaged me
to ask me if these were worth buying instead of buying the actual Red Raspberry Leaf Tea.
So later in this video, we're gonna do a taste test on these but for now
let me tell you a little bit about the benefits of Red Raspberry Leaf Tea and how we can use these!
So you may already know that Red Raspberry Leaf Tea
tones your uterus and gets your body ready for pregnancy!
...and that I recommend at the beginning of your pregnancy you're drinking about a cup or two a day
but at the end of your pregnancy, I have my mama's drinking up to a quart a day!
When you're drinking red raspberry leaf tea, a cup of the tea is about 1500 milligrams
So that would be one cup a day.
Although these chews are amazing...
they do recommend that you chew... let's see it says to take one chew, three times per day.
...It's only 247 milligrams per chew.
These chews are great...
They're tiny. They kind of look like regular Starbursts...
But for 247 milligrams per chew, that means I need to choose six of these to equal
one cup of this!
Now that can actually be pretty helpful when you're later in your
pregnancy and honestly you've just had enough of drinking red raspberry leaf tea!
But, let's talk about the calories and sugar.
So each of these chews is 20 calories ...which is 2 grams of sugar.
So to get six chews of this - which is one cup a day- you're going to be eating one-hundred-and-twenty extra calories!
Now, when you're in your third trimester and you're needing to have 4 cups a day of
your tea that's going to be 480 calories... which is almost an entire meal
of just these sweet little chews. What I do like about them, however, is if you
need like a reminder to take your red raspberry leaf tea or let's say you kind
of have a sweet tooth while you're pregnant... instead of eating something
like Starbursts for example -which have no nutritional value and they're filled
with dyes and things like that- you can chew these little red raspberry leaf tea chews
and not only get a little extra nutrition but also cure that
little sweet tooth that you have going on!
If you're anything like me and you
suck at drinking red raspberry leaf tea put this in your purse and now you have
quick red raspberry leaf on-the-go!
In comparison to Starbursts...
eight of these would have nine grams of sugar less than Starbursts would have and no
red dyes or anything like that. In fact I looked at their ingredients
and they're largely organic and completely natural. So they're really
safe for you to have while you're pregnant and two grams of sugar really isn't a lot of sugar.
So before we do our taste test if it comes down to the tea or
it comes down to the chews my recommendation is you go ahead and spend
your money on the tea... and I would actually recommend that you buy the tea
in bulk because you're gonna be drinking a quart of it a day in your third trimester.
So I'm gonna link that in the description below where you'll also find
these if you're interested. But for now let's move on to a taste test because I
know that you're probably dying to know what they taste like... like I was when my client brought them in last week.
So I'm gonna call it my office manager (Emily) here at The Natural Birth House and my camera guy, Lane.
You guys come over here!
Emily is really nervous. Emily asked me earlier...
she said "ew... does it taste like leaves?" So, let's see what we got.
They don't smell.
That was my first question I had...
Emily doesn't like the tea either.
Oh they do smell. They are very earthy.
Oh, it smells like the tea. Yeah.
It smells like the brewed tea. All right let's go.
It's so gross (laughing).
Yup. It tastes like the tea.
With a lot of sugar in it!
For two grams of sugar it's actually pretty sweet.
I'm very syrupy...it tastes like molasses.
Molasses! That's exactly what it tastes like...
... like steamed syrup mmm.
This is like...to me it's like a
really, really strong very, very potent red raspberry leaf tea. I'm surprised it
only has what 247 milligrams in it.
No.
Nope, I still don't like it (laughing).
So if y'all want to check these out we're
gonna link them up down in the description. I want to know from you guys
do they taste like molasses, if you do get some? Post them... I want to know if you
guys taste them I want to see your face when you're tasting them.
They would have to go to your Facebook page or your Instagram.
Can you send me like a six-second video
of your face because I know some of my mamas really like the red raspberry leaf tea
I can barely swallow it.
She's done! (laughing)
I think we're closing the video.
I definitely say that you should just stick with the tea.
If you're interested in learning about how to make the tea in bulk or learning a little bit more about
how red raspberry leaf is really beneficial to you during your pregnancy
and why I recommend it to my mamas here at The BirthHouse, I'm gonna go ahead
and post those links to those videos right here. I have an entire red raspberry leaf tea playlist
and I'll see you guys over there!
Thanks for watching this Midwife Monday. Bye bye!
Was it as bad as you thought it was gonna be?
Emily: It doesn't taste grass.
It doesn't taste like grass!