Can someone recommend a green tea (organic preferred) that tastes like
slightly salty water in which cabbage or other leafy vegetables have been
boiled? Is this what tea vendors mean by the description "vegetal"?

R.B. Dunbar

(Robert Dunbar) writes:

Can someone recommend a green tea (organic preferred) that tastes like
slightly salty water in which cabbage or other leafy vegetables have been
boiled?

Not a green tea exactly, but some green Puerhs have a brothy quality
that reminds me of cabbage, or better still, collard green "pot
liquor". Green Puerh Bamboo Tea from Imperial Tea Court is definitely
one such tea. You might also try Green Pu-erh (P-GPE-1) from Silk
Road Teas. Warning: some people totally hate this kind of tea.

Is this what tea vendors mean by the description "vegetal"?

I don't think so. "Vegetal" is a pretty vague word, but I doubt most
people who use it are thinking of as strong-tasting a vegetable as
cabbage, and I don't think a salty, brothy quality is what is usually
intended by "vegetal" either.

/Lew
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