Snarky Tea is a tea brand with a fun and playful brand voice, that was featured on Shark Tank. What makes this brand unique is that most of their teas are made with fruit, rather than herbs.

But is fruit tea healthy? How does it compare to more traditional herbal tea? Does Snarky Tea contain any unhealthy ingredients? And how do real users rate and describe its effects?

In this article we'll answer all of these questions and more, as we analyze the ingredients in two of Snarky Tea's most popular products to give our take on whether or not they're healthy.

We'll also feature real customer reviews, and share our thoughts on how Snarky Tea compares to herbal tea.

Key takeaways:

• Some teas contain natural flavors
• Some teas contain refined sugar
• We do not currently recommend Snarky Tea

Ingredient Analysis

The ingredients in Snarky Tea Honey Lemon TLC, which is part of the best-selling "Balance Trio," are shown below:

Most of the ingredients are whole food ingredients with health benefits.

Rooibos tea was shown in a 2023 medical review to improve cholesterol and blood sugar, and "boost antioxidant status."

Chamomile is clinically shown to cause weight loss in overweight individuals, as we documented in our Iaso Tea review article.

There is only one ingredient in this blend that we consider potentially unhealthy.

Natural flavors can contain solvents and preservatives according to a medical review published in the Food and Chemical Toxicology journal.

The ingredients in Snarky Tea Caramel Chai are shown below:

Sugar and glucose syrup are refined forms of added sugar, and the brand fails to publish the sugar dose on their product page at the time of publishing this article.

We know from medical research that consuming refined sugar in excess is associated with a host of negative health effects including increased risk of cardiovascular disease and obesity, which is why we don't recommend tea with refined, added sugar.

Milk and butter fat are included, and there is no mention of whether or not the dairy is sourced from conventionally-raised animals.

Dairy from grass-fed animals is significantly healthier than dairy from conventionally-raised animals in our opinion, due to differences in fatty acid ratios, as we explained in our is Babybel cheese healthy article.

Overall, we do not consider currently recommend Snarky Tea due to some of their blends containing ingredients we consider unhealthy.

Is Herbal Tea Healthier?

Many products sold by Snarky Tea are fruit teas, with ingredients like pineapple and peach.

A medical review published in the Antioxidants journal reported that not only did fruit teas contain health-promoting ingredients like flavonoids and phenols, extraction of these compounds increased with higher water temperatures.

This suggests that fruit tea may have unique health effects.

Traditional tea (derived from the plant Camellia sinensis), which is used to make green and black tea, is clinically shown to have anticancer and DNA-protective effects.

Some herbal teas have specific health effects like supporting relaxation, as we documented in our MoonBrew reviews article.

We don't consider fruit teas like those sold by Snarky Tea to be more or less healthy than herbal or traditional tea.

We consider drinking different types of tea to be the optimal health approach, because then you experience the unique health benefits from each.

Real People Try Snarky Tea

A YouTube creator named "Never Quite Perfect" reviewed Snarky tea:

A TikTok creator named "The Traveling Teayota" explains what her favorite Snarky Tea is:

@yancha_chachi @Snarky Tea This Autumn Harvest is amazing! #tea #teasubscription #snarkytea #icedtea #herbaltea ♬ original sound - The Traveling Teayota

Our Clean Tea Picks

Pique Hibiscus Beauty Elixir is our top herbal tea pick, and its only ingredients are organic hibiscus, organic mint and organic licorice root.

Hibiscus was shown in a medical review published in the Molecules journal to have a potentially anti-aging effect due to its antioxidant properties and its ability to stimulate collagen production.

Pique Pu'er Bundle is our top premium tea pick, as it's comprised of traditionally fermented, organic green and black teas.

A medical review found that green tea helps promote a healthy body weight, to promote healthy blood pressure levels and to have “neuroprotective power.”

Both of the products mentioned in this section are free of ingredients we consider to be unhealthy.

Snarky Tea Pros and Cons

Here are the pros and cons of Snarky Tea in our opinion:

Pros:

• Fruit tea can improve health
• Some blends contain no unhealthy additives
• Most reviews we came across online were positive

Cons:

• Some blends contain natural flavor
• Some blends contain artificial flavor
• Not organic
• Some blends contain refined, added sugar
• Unclear if dairy is from conventionally-raised animals

Conclusion

We consider fruit tea to be healthy overall, and some of Snarky Tea's blends are free of unhealthy additives.

Overall, we do not recommend this brand because many of the blends we came across contained at least one added ingredient we consider unhealthy.

For consumers planning to drink tea for health benefits, we recommend switching between fruit tea, herbal tea and traditional tea (like green and black tea) to benefit from the unique phytochemicals in each.

Most of the customer reviews of Snarky Tea that we came across while researching this article were positive.