![]() ![]() It’s a sweet and delicious lemonade that works great in this drink. Lemonade: I don’t know what Starbucks uses for lemonade, so I decided to use one of the more available grocery store brands: Simply Lemonade. I didn’t miss the mint at all! So I think the more important tea is the peach, and that most any green tea will work for your copycat medicine ball drink. To my surprise, I found the final drink just as good. Since we are trying to ward off illness and such. I have lots of teas from The Republic of Tea, and their Immunity tea seemed like a good choice. I decided to try with a different green tea, which did not have any mint flavor included. Because I was really trying to locate the mint flavor in the final medicine ball drink, and had trouble tasting it. But I took this ingredient one step further. I found it in Tazo Tea Zen, which is described as “green tea, bright lemongrass & crisp spearmint.” It’s such a close match I almost wonder who did it first. ![]() So, when I looked for an alternative, I tried to find one with the same flavors. The taste of mint is just a hint, but definitely there. ![]() It is flavored with spearmint, lemon verbena and lemongrass. As green teas go, this one is quite interesting. Green Tea: Starbucks use Teavana Jade Citrus Mint tea. The cinnamon just clashes with the other flavors in the drink. I do NOT recommend any of these to make this medicine bomb. Some just say "spice" in the ingredients. Some peach tea brands include a touch of cinnamon. This tea also works very well, and I consider it a completely acceptable alternative. But I did try this using another brand: Celestial Seasonings Country Peach Passion tea. The peach flavor is one of the most dominant in the Starbucks Medicine Ball tea, so this is a pretty important ingredient. It is delicious, and very easy to make at home! It’s a combination of steamed lemonade and 2 types of herbal tea, with a little honey added in. Which is actually too many words to remember, IMO, they probably should have just stuck with “medicine ball” – or even "medicine bomb" - it’s so much easier! Several years ago, the company recognized the popularity of this “secret menu” drink and decide to put it on the menu, calling it Honey Citrus Mint Tea. Lucky for us all, an enterprising barista at Starbucks came up with a drink called the “Medicine Ball” which is intended to help us all fight the common cold. When my children were little, I swear they were just mobile Petri dishes, happy to share their germs with every other kid in their orbit. I’m willing to bet that this will still be true, even in a social distancing world. And somehow, that always seems to translate into the beginning of cold and flu season. September is here, which traditionally means back to school. ![]()
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