FAQ

Our supplier specialises in quality stevia products and advises at the time of writing:

“Stevia can be extracted using alcohol, water or glycerine.

Our stevia is extracted using a natural process that involves mainly water.”

This is a medical issue and we will not provide any advice on these matters to individuals. Please consult your doctor.

Generally speaking, I take the liberty of cut and paste from Wikipedia:
“Toxicity. The United States Food and Drug Administration believes that foods containing liquorice and its derivatives (including glycyrrhizin) are safe if not consumed excessively. Other jurisdictions have suggested no more than 100 mg to 200 mg of glycyrrhizin per day, the equivalent of about 70 to 150 g (2.5 to 5.3 oz) of liquorice

At the time of writing this FAQ 17/4/17: Liquorice in Turmeric Chai Tea is a minor ingredient. It is nowhere near the above-mentioned levels. We have had no adverse  reports.

Please ask your doctor about the suitability and safety of any food for your own particular circumstances.

Turmeric Chai Tea is sold as a turmeric chai tea, and one of the ingredients is Ceylon Cinnamon Verum (the superior cinnamon type, as opposed to its less expensive cousin, Cassia). We source high quality ingredients for Turmeric Chai Tea.

We do not comment on health matters and politely refer customers to their health professionals for advice.

What I can say, is that we have had few reported problems related to cinnamon in our products. Very few people are allergic to cinnamon but it does happen. I have thoroughly researched Turmeric Chai Tea. My family and I drink it regularly.

Please refer to the detailed ingredient list current on the packaging.

Any food can be allergic to some people. Turmeric Chai Tea has a very low allergy risk, but the following allergy risks have been made know to us:

• Kelp;
• Cinnamon;
• Caffeine (present in green tea)

Here is the ABC report http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-14/man-faced-death-after-taking-popular-weight-loss-product/7162378

FULL QUESTION: “Hi John, I love your product –Turmeric Chai Tea and have been having it daily since October last year and …. ………. . .. …………

I hate to ask this question but the ABC did a story on a man than took a weight loss product and it resulted in liver failure and him having a transplant.

In the article it mainly points the blame to the supplement garcinia cambogia but if you read the full story it also includes Green Tea Extract.

In your listed  ingredients it states just Green Tea and I assume in a small amount.   I just wanted to check as feeling nervous and sorry to ask as I realise you are a scientist and I am sure everything is OK.”

ANSWER:  This is a great question. Always do your own research and obtain multiple viewpoints. Never trust anyone with your health-own it and take care  with anything that goes into your body. A good scientific website can be googled at PUBMED.

The ABC media report is balanced and starts with shocking photos of a very sick young man. The last part of the article contains several paragraphs which bring some balance to these images. Read the article in full, right to the end, then do some more of your own independent research.

The product in this article has a stamp that says AUST L….  bottom right of the package. This means that it is a therapeutic listed good not a food.

This article is a little misleading as it confuses food and a TGA listed product. “Food” means that a product is in a form traditionally known to man as an edible food. “TGA listed product” means that the owner of the product is making therapeutic claims and the product usually has been altered from that of a food. The green tea extract in this reported product is just that – an altered form of green tea. The green tea extract is a substance that has been extracted by a process either chemical, physical, heat or some other method to extract and in this case concentrate a part of the original green tea plant.

So ask this question- does the properties or appearance of petrol that you put in your car, bear any resemblance to the crude oil that flows from the ground? Clearly, no!

The same might be true of a substance extracted, concentrated and purified from any plant or food- it may bear little resemblance to the food that it came from.

Turmeric Chai Tea is a food made from traditional foods without extraction, concentration or purification. It is labelled under the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code. The major ingredients are named first and at the time of writing, turmeric, cinnamon (Ceylon type) and fennel make up over 80% of the ingredients. There is no evidence that green tea is harmful at the levels in Turmeric Chai Tea. We have had no reports of adverse effects other than some people are very sensitive to caffeine of any sort.

All green tea contains tannin and caffeine. We use only the highest quality ingredients and do not use extracts of green tea. There is another FAQ with more information about green tea extracts and why we do not use them, but rather, opt for pure, natural, unprocessed green tea.

Please refer to the package for the current information. The weights of the ingredients are not listed, as this is not required under Australian food labelling laws. Ingredients are listed in order of content- so, turmeric, cinnamon and fennel are the main ingredients.

Where available and at reasonable cost premium we prefer organic ingredients. For example at the time of writing about 7 ingredients are organic.

Other ingredients have suppliers certification for satisfactory levels of heavy metals, pesticides and microbial levels. We also do our own testing. We avoid ingredients from countries such where the food supply is not recognised as high quality.

Most of the ingredients in Turmeric Chai Tea are originally from overseas countries such as India and Sri Lanka. The kelp is North Atlantic deep see kelp and is supplied to us as organic.

The above information is subject to change without notice but we always take care to source the best available ingredients.