★★★★★
This combination of flavors is very soothing. I bought it for a relative who drinks it every night!
An elixir of pu erh tea, ginger, senna, and licorice to promote stomach and digestive health.
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This combination of flavors is very soothing. I bought it for a relative who drinks it every night!
This is a pretty good tea. I'm not a fan of licorice but it's not too strong of a taste.
I really enjoyed the overall taste of this blended tea. none of the ingredients came through overpoweringly.
This tea is fantastic. I'm having stomach trouble and my doc recommended drinking tea to relieve tension between medication and I've definitely noticed I'm feeling much better.
A good tea for settling an upset stomach, but definitely drink it while its hot or it tastes funky
Wasn’t sure how I was going to like this tea but it was good. Only drink 1 cup per day. Definitely helps
I was having some tummy issues, and a cup of happy belly made them all disappear. I can really taste the ginger, but the overall cup was pretty tasty and not too medicinal.
Calming tea that made my belly feel so much better!!
Light and neutral flavor and definitely easy on the belly.
This solved my nightly heartburn problems fairly well
After trying thoat therapy, I looked for teas with similar ingredients and found this one. While I prefer throat therapy, the same sweet licorice and black jack gum style anise flavor comes through. It reminds me of springerle cookies. Now I want cookies...
So the taste isn’t that great but it isn’t that bad either!! I want to try and have a cup of this at least once a week.
Nice herbal blend. Calming and soothing tea, great for nausea.
So this works and soothes my acid reflux, but the flavor isn't great. Its on the sweet side which is nice for this tea, but theres something about the flavor that starts to get really unappealing after it gets cool. For drinking quickly!
Yummy and a great tea when you need a little help setteling you stomach!
Excellent for those of us with ‘touchy tummies’. It truly helps keep my tummy at ease.
Taste very soothing and settles a belly nicely after a big meal
Unique kind of taste but helps give you feeling better, and a happy belly.
Been drinking this on and off for a few weeks now and I LOVE IT!
Interesting taste, maybe one that would have to grow on me because of the ingredients.
I actually didn't try it because senna and I don't jive, but my best friend loves this tea.
This tea does not taste good. The fennel and anise flavors dominate the scene and my taste buds were not pleased. Hard pass on this one. (5 min @ 212°F)
Pretty decent. I don't like licorice or aniseed, but otherwise okay
I was expecting an unfortunate flashback to herbal medicinal stores when I smelled the dry tea, but instead I was greeted with the pleasant savory smell of yellow curry paste. It also reminds me a bit of chicken ramen. Freshly brewed (5 min @ 212), the smell is very loose and airy; it's savory with a licorice note (which my nose interprets as star anise given the context), like smelling the steam that comes off of making homemade udon soup.
Hot, the soup tastes like a very light broth; and it has a cool, slippery aftertaste from the licorice that leaves an odd sticky sweetness in the very back of the throat. This licorice aftertaste builds with each sip so the rest of the savory experience is a bit hard to grasp; highly unfortunate. I added a pinch of salt and two drops of fish sauce; this helped to balance out the licorice and bring out the savory broth flavor of the tea. Since this tea needs such interesting additions to doctor it up, I think the blend could use some tweaking but has promise.
I think the power of suggestion is at work here. I felt like I was helping my belly as I drank this. It is very calming. I wouldn't necessarily drink this for the flavor - I think a little more ginger would be nice for me, personally.
Hilarious to have a stomach soother after Thanksgiving. Perfect tea.
I like black licorice, so I like that the licorice flavor of this tea dominates. I taste a bit of the pu-erh and lemongrass too. It's a nice blend that would probably feel nice on a sore throat.
The first Communitea tea that I've actively disliked. Not the tea's fault but I dislike licorice and that's all I could smell or taste
OK, I didn’t love the flavor of the tea. I’m not a big licorice fan when it comes to tea but I can see where the ingredients could help in certain situations.
Part of the November 2020 CommuniTEA box. The savory aftertaste is a bit off putting.
I don't love it, but I like it enough. I like anise and licorice, which I would say is a requirement for enjoying this tea. Hint of sweetness. It is a little medicinal, but not unpleasantly to me. The other ingredients round it out a bit, but it's definitely black licorice forward.
I have issues with digestion and this one helped calm my stomach and tastes better than most I've tried.
This CommuniTea has several ingredients I am not a fan of: licorice, aniseed, pu-erh. So I am not surprised to find that I do not like the flavor of this tea.
I’m generally a fan of teas with any combo of ginger, lemongrass, anise, licorice, etc. This is my first shot at a tea with senna. Whether it’s the senna or the chicory, there is a savory taste and smell to this that is confusing with all of the other sweet notes. As another reviewer mentioned, there is truly a lot going on in this cup. 5 @ 212
It does taste very medicinal, and the senna leaf doesn't do much for me personally, so this one was a pass for me.
I didn’t taste anything other than the anise, I’m also not a fan of it in the first place. I got this in my communiTEA and was vet disappointed. There was no complexity or undertones, just an overpowering flavor of black licorice.
Disgusting, absolutely disgusting. It tastes like medicine and I couldn't even finish the cup.
Has a strong licorice flavor, might be someones thing. Thick body to it. Ingredient list sounds exotic at least.
I do not like licorice. However, there is an Italian restaurant that serves anise with orange slices at the end of a meal. And I do enjoy having a sip of that followed by the orange slice. This tea reminded me of this. So this is definitely a tea I suggest drinking after a large meal and not as a morning cuppa. I also would not have a huge mug but instead have only a small tea cup amount. :)
I think it's really cool that the Communitea is bold enough to introduce a sample packet of tea with healing properties to a community of reviewers who may or may not need such things... and they picked a good day for this one, right after Thanksgiving. I hadn't known that Adagio offered a tea with laxative properties, and I think that's wonderful. I also don't think it's very fair of us who received the (mostly blind) sample pack to review these healing teas based solely on flavor, because that's not what the typical consumer of this tea would be buying it for.
Hm...yeah...no thank you...received this as part of the Communitea package the day after Thanksgiving (how fitting)...not a tea I will be needing for its stomach soothing benefits...tried a half cup to see how it tastes and I personally don’t like the taste of licorice so I had no issues dumping this cup.
I thought it smelled ehh when I opened the CommuniTEA packet today, but I didn't actually look at the page to see what it was before trying it. I wish I had. I took a single sip and that was all I could stand. I hate licorice and that was the only flavor I really got from this. Yikes, but at least that lets me know to take it off my wish list!
I found this to be a mellow herbal tea. What got me was the occasional medicinal kick of anise. It seemed out of place. I think I really would have enjoyed it otherwise.
Listing an herb that is a laxative that can cause stomach cramps as a tea to help with stomach issues is a very bad idea.
If you need a laxative, you have intestinal not stomach issues.
Licorice is also on the handle with care it has drug interactions list.
This tea is a bad idea as labeled.
So this tea is fairly medicinal in taste and not extremely enjoyable to drink, but it definitely works! The only issue is concerning the active ingredients: I take medication and don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of what can affect it and how, so I didn't even know this tea had the potential to do so. I should be fine--thankfully--but there should definitely be a stronger and clearer warning than 'consult your doctor' because I know from experience that the phrase seems more like a caution than a directive. -1 star for clarity but in general it's a gentle and effective tea.
Hm. It's okay. Not one that I would have put in the communitea just because it's so specific to use and if you don't look it up first, you might end up with a huge issue. The taste was okay to me. Not sure I'd buy this one, but meh.
Not my cup of tea. The ginger was too strong for my taste.
The first thing you notice about the Happy Belly tea is the aroma and taste of licorice. The second is the slight tinge of ginger. It definitely leaves an aftertaste, not altogether unpleasant. Not one I would buy, but glad to know there are teas to calm a touchy stomach.
This tea is great for tummy issues, which I tend to have a lot of. It tastes more like a broth to me than a tea though.
Some one who selects tea for our communiTEA box must be very thoughtful. It is nice of her/him to think about my tummy condition after the big thanksgiving dinner yesterday! That's what I love about this brand.