How can I make a good tasting pitcher of iced green tea in my ice tea maker? Can it taste like Arizona?
If you want it to taste like Arizona, you have to put in what they use: From http://www.arizonabev.com/csr/prodtypeitem.asp?item=1608&cat=1: “Ingredients: premium brewed green tea using filtered water, high fructose corn syrup, honey, citric acid, natural flavors, ginseng extract, ascorbic acid.” You can count on the honey being less important than the corn syrup – that’s the sweetener that you aren’t replicating in your kitchen. Sugar just doesn’t taste the same. The citric acid provides some tartness and preservative qualities. No telling what the natural flavors are. The ginseng is for flavor, and if you believe the hype it’s good for you too, and the ascorbic acid also provides some tartness and preservative qualities. The truth is, they’re marketing a beverage which is remarkably like most others on the market. That is, this product is really not much about the tea at all, b
