Background
Iced tea has been around as a light refreshing drink for hot days since the US South was colonised. In recent years, it’s been turned into a Fast-Moving-Consumer-Good and is for sale at all the same places as fizzy soft drinks including vending machines and take away shops.
Summer 2011 saw three new green tea drinks appear now sweetened with a combination of sugar and stevia. I’ve already written about stevia and how it’s being marketed as a new ‘natural’ sweetener, one that’s not burdened with the detrimental rumours circulating about sweetener aspartame and brain cancer.