ROOIBOS * RED BUSH TEA
ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
AT THE WELLNESS WAREHOUSE

At the Wellness Warehouse, Carlos and Sean Gomes have realised their vision of a signature store, nourishing body and soul, where you stroll and browse through shelves filled with every tempting natural product you could possibly wish for. Start the day with a great breakfast, a choice of natural teas or a restorative organic coffee in their sunny Wellness Café spilling over to the terrace. Later, visit the well appointed spa with comfortable treatment rooms, have a full body massage and experience a complete make-over, or simply have a superb manicure and full pedicure. A one stop treat encompassing all the practicalities and enjoy the pampering. 

 

Rooibos tea has created great excitement
and a growing reputation worldwide for
having superb health benefits. 

 

This bright rooibos tea is a green shrub unique to South Africa, where it has been known and used over many hundreds of years. Grown in the Cape’s Cedarberg area where this valuable and enviable crop is picked, dried, packed and sent on its way. 

 

Known as a red bush tea, Know as a red bush tea, rooibos has high anti-oxidants and unlike most soft drinks and juices contains no colours, additives or preservatives.  It is a completely natural beverage and because it is rich in anti-oxidants it helps boost the immune system.  Many people have claimed to use it to help them improve their mood as well as help with allergies, hay fever, asthma and eczema.  For people prone to kidney stones this tea contains very little oxyalic acid.  In addition, rooibos helps relieve stomach cramping and colic in babies.  A cup of rooibos tea is a recommended drink for pregnant and nursing  mothers. 

 

 Intensive research has shown that six cups
of rooibos tea a day help to boost the body’s
natural antioxidant, Glutathione.

 

Dynamic Steffen Olivier, of the Wellness Café,
has designed these creative invigorating drinks
using rooibos as their base, healthy and appealing! 

 

MANGO ROOIBOS VANILLA AND CHILLI SMOOTHIE

 

125 – 200 ml Freshpak Rooibos Restoring Ginger
1 handful of ice blocks
100 g fresh or canned mango
1 cm vanilla pod, scraped
10 - 15 g sugar/ vanilla sugar (optional)
½ cm fresh chilli
(Serves 1)

 

Place all the ingredients in a food processor (or smoothie machine) and blitz until smooth.  Remember not to put the skin of the vanilla pod into the blender, just the seeds that you have scraped out of the skin! Adjust the strength of the rooibos tea and sugar according to taste.

 

Note – If you are using canned mango you can substitute the sugar in this recipe with the liquid of the canned mangoes.

 

APPLE MELON CUCUMBER MINT AND ROOIBOS ICED COOLER

 

80 – 120 ml Freshpak Rooibos Lemon
80 ml apple juice (juice of half an apple)
40 ml cucumber juice (juice of 6 cm piece of cucumber)
60 ml melon juice (juice of 1/10 of a fresh green melon)
5 mint leaves
25 ml plain yoghurt (optional)
10 g sugar/vanilla sugar (optional)
½ handful of ice blocks
(Serves 1)

 

Place all your fresh fruit in the juicer (discard the flesh). Place all the ingredients in a food processor (or in a smoothie machine) and blitz until smooth.

 

Note – If you want to prepare this drink in advance or if the drink is going to stand for a while, I would advise adding plain yoghurt as this binds the ingredients.

 

 

 In addition to their traditional caffeine free rooibos tea,
Freshpak has a wide range of herbal and green teas.
Wonderful served on their own and great
in freshly made breakfast smoothies.

 

BANANA MUESLI ROOIBOS YOGHURT AND MAPLE SYRUP BREAKFAST SMOOTHIE

 

80 – 125 ml Freshpak Rooibos
100 ml plain yoghurt
80 g muesli or granola
1 banana
1 handful of ice blocks
5 - 15 ml maple syrup
(Serves 1)

 

Place all the ingredients in a food processor (or in a smoothie machine) and blitz until smooth.

 

Note – This is a flexible drink and you can ring the changes. If you like a crunchy breakfast smoothie add more muesli or if you prefer it smooth, add more yoghurt and less muesli. In addition you can substitute maple syrup with honey or brown sugar.

 

 

Freshpak Fennel Rooibos with its luminous, light colour
and clean fresh flavour is a particularly good aid
for digestion enjoyed after lunch or dinner. 

 

 

Freshpak has a full range of herbal teas including Soothing Chamomile, an infusion of rooibos with pure chamomile flowers, having an even golden colour, a warm floral fragrance and delicate taste. Perfect to drink at bed time. Enjoy a Rejuvenating Green Tea, sometimes referred to as the ‘dew of heaven’ for its particular taste. Try the crisp tasting Refreshing Green Tea & Mint with its distinctive light colour, beneficial after lunch, excellent on warm days and thirst quenching when served iced.

 

Lemon rooibos is invigorating as well as warming. Freshpak Sweet Honey is noted for its bright coppery colour, sweet fragrance and smooth flavour, an irresistible combination. While rooibos with Restoring Ginger has a lustrous golden red shade, a smooth spicy aroma and a piquant taste, wonderful to use as a base for a revitalising smoothie. In cold weather, add a teaspoon of honey and warm up.

 

FRESHPAK

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Phone 0860 100219 +27 11 707-7053 Fax +27 11 707-7799
Postal Address P.O. Box 5159, Rivonia, 2128, South Africa
Street Address 30 Sloane Street, Bryanston, Johannesburg