What the hell is nettle tea?
The next food on the list is nettle tea. We looked for tea made from the leaves of the stinging nettle in Whole Foods (this list is turning into a Whole Foods advertisement) and The Vitamin Shoppe, the ubiquitous store that I believed only sold un-FDA approved bodybuilding supplements. Nettle tea is also available on Amazon.com. I wandered around Whole Foods until I found the tea aisle. The racks were filled with a boggling variety of teas touting a boggling array of promises. There are teas for colds, for weight loss, for pregnancy, for getting pregnant, for better memory, better skin, better hair and better moods — just to name a few. The closest thing I could find to nettle tea was Allegro Fine Tea’s “Glowing and Flowing.” Although the main ingredient is green tea, nettle is second on the list. (I didn’t want to hold up my blogging by ordering away fro the food.) The name frightened me; the packet described drinking the tea as “spring cleaning for your body.” But at least it’s prefe
