Korean Sweet Tea?

Hi All,

I had an herbal tea this morning my coworker called "Sukuk" (Sukook?) tea. Very very naturally sweet, like drinking cotton candy.

Anyone know what this is? Preferably with korean characters?

~j

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Jason F in Los Angeles
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Hi, Jason, My partner at our Chicago clinic is a OMD and has has such a tea. He thinks it's Koren Ginseng and JubeJube Tea (red dates). This is a common tea and its Korean name is similar to your coworker's name for it. A thought. Shen

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Shen

It's a single-leaf tea without any visible jujube or ginseng, and it's not camellia leaves. The packaging says it has no sugar content so it's safe for diabetics, but doesn't say what plant it's from...?

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Jason F in Los Angeles

??(??) ???? a hydrangea

So it is hydrangea leaf. I've had it before too.

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Geoffrey Grissett

Ah....I've heard of hydrangea root for urinary issues, but not the leaves. Jason, were you told of a purpose forthis tea or is it just a refeshment? Shen

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Shen

The full name of the plant used for this tea is Hydrangea macrophylla var. thunbergii (aka Hydrangeae Dulcis Folium) and a Google search shows that its leaves contain substances that are positively anti- diabetic, liver-restorative, and maybe good for other things too. In Japan the leaves are boiled then dried, and this yields the tea (Amacha) offered to the statues of the Buddha on his Birth Day because sweet rain is said to have fallen at his birth. I am not sure that the Koreans boil the leaves before drying them. It is a fairly recent addition to the teas commercially available in Korea. I very much doubt if the leaves of the common garden hydrangea have the same taste or qualities. In Korea, the plant grows wild fairly high on the hills in the southern regions.

Brother Anthony

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An Sonjae
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Jason F in Los Angeles

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