Tazo, a tea company, offers a range of tea types, including chai teas. These teas are sold directly to consumers online and at various retailers. You can also find Tazo tea products through local coffee shops such as Starbucks and Seattle's Best. The nutritional value of these teas varies depending on how you or the local coffee shop prepares it.
Types and Ingredients
Tazo chai varieties are available in either tea bags or a boxed concentrated form, and in both organic and decaffeinated varieties. Tazo chai tea bag ingredients include black, rooibos or green teas, ginger, cinnamon, black pepper, cardamom and star anise. Concentrated varieties contain the same ingredients, but have added cane sugar and honey.
Calories
Tazo chai tea bags have no calories since they contain zero calorie ingredients and no added sweeteners. Concentrated chai teas have about 70 calories per 4-oz. serving. If you order a Tazo chai from your local coffee shop, the calorie content may vary based on the ingredients it uses. For example, an 8-oz. Tazo chai blended with 2 percent steamed milk from a coffee shop has 120 calories.
Other Nutritional Information
Brewed Tazo chai tea with no additional ingredients has no nutritional value. Chai tea lattes, made from the boxed concentrated form, ordered from a local coffee or even made at home with your own ingredients, does have nutritional value. For example, an 8-oz. Tazo chai tea latte blended with 2 percent steamed milk from a coffee shop has about 2 g of fat, 10 mg of cholesterol, 50 mg of sodium, 22 g of total carbohydrates and 4 g of protein.
Percent Daily Values
Percent daily values are based on a 2,000-calorie diet. It means that if the label says 10 percent of a nutrient, you are getting 10 percent of the nutrient that you need each day by consuming the product. A 4-oz. Tazo chai tea latte blended with 2 percent steamed milk supplies 4 percent of your daily value for vitamin A and 15 percent of your daily value for calcium.
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