South African import has lots of buzz and the requisite health claims
(NEWSER) - Move over quinoa and acai berry. The next big thing in the culinary world just might be rooibos (roy-boss) tea. "It's a robust herbal tisane (not technically a tea), and its flavor has an almost tobacco-like, nutty quality," writes Jessica Grose at Slate . Full of antioxidants, the rooibos bush has been reported to cure everything from skin conditions to stomach cramps to cancer. Of course, there’s little by way of science to back up these claims, "but science rarely gets in the way of trends," writes Grose. More»