Loaded teas, they're almost too good to drink and they're definitely too good to be true.

The maker behind these colorful concoctions, Erbelife has long since been accused of being a pyramid scheme,

developing products with a scientist who got their degree from a diploma mill,

and using false tragic backstories to sell their products.

Erbelife's cafes are practically built to hurt the distributors that open one,

and in this episode we visited one ourselves to buy and maybe spill some tea of our own.

Hello everyone and welcome to a maybe spill some tea of our own.

Hello everyone and welcome to another multi-level Mondays. I'm the Illuminati and today we're talking about Erbelife again.

Although I do recommend checking out my older episodes on Erbelai for context, you won't need them to understand what we discussed today. I knew I needed to take yet another look at this God-forsaken company when I started to see some articles

discussing something called their loaded teas. These drinks have gotten increasingly

popular in the past few years and it's not too hard to see why. They really do look

Instagram worthy, they're colorful, vibrant, and supposedly good for you.

What's not to love?

Nutrition clubs post about selling them on Facebook, Instagram, and Tik-Tock claiming that they're

low in calories and sugar and loaded with vitamins. They've added and

Tic-Toc claiming that they're low in calories and sugar and loaded with vitamins.

They've added some caffeine powder for an energy boost, but even tea is caffeine in it, right?

Well, these drinks can have about 175 to 200 milligrams of caffeine in them or about twice the amount of an average

cup of coffee. While this is still less than a bang energy drink at 300 milligrams, it's still

a ton to have all at once. Plus, the people behind these colorful creations

are herbal life representatives, and herbal life,

as you'll recall, hasn't really been consistent

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