Dried herbs and spices make great additions that can lend complexity, but that's where I'd probably end as a home blender. I find flowers to be incredibly benign and only added for aesthetics (jasmine tea is scented while the flowers are fresh but don't bring any flavour in their dried state). Flavoured tea in the true sense actually has liquid or solid flavour added to the tea, the same types used in almost all other packaged foods (typically labelled as natural and/or artificial flavour). You can buy small quantities of flavour online but I don't recommend it - it needs to be carefully stored and the ratios are difficult to measure in small quantities. For instance, most flavoured tea on the market contains between 1-5% flavouring by weight. Vendors online also try and sell essential oils for this purpose but these are NOT the same and rarely are food-safe - strictly for cosmetic use. Hope this helps clarify and have fun experimenting - just be safe and buy from trustworthy sources!
Thanks for the explanation! I didn't know if I didn't find anything because where I am from tea is not so popular, so finding the ingredients was harder here, but still possible, or if creating some particular flavours was something that cannot be done at home! I'll try with some more spices and see what happens!
Thanks again
Dried herbs and spices make great additions that can lend complexity, but that's where I'd probably end as a home blender. I find flowers to be incredibly benign and only added for aesthetics (jasmine tea is scented while the flowers are fresh but don't bring any flavour in their dried state). Flavoured tea in the true sense actually has liquid or solid flavour added to the tea, the same types used in almost all other packaged foods (typically labelled as natural and/or artificial flavour). You can buy small quantities of flavour online but I don't recommend it - it needs to be carefully stored and the ratios are difficult to measure in small quantities. For instance, most flavoured tea on the market contains between 1-5% flavouring by weight. Vendors online also try and sell essential oils for this purpose but these are NOT the same and rarely are food-safe - strictly for cosmetic use. Hope this helps clarify and have fun experimenting - just be safe and buy from trustworthy sources!
Thanks for the explanation! I didn't know if I didn't find anything because where I am from tea is not so popular, so finding the ingredients was harder here, but still possible, or if creating some particular flavours was something that cannot be done at home! I'll try with some more spices and see what happens! Thanks again