Lipton Pure Leaf Real Tea, Sweet Tea

Pure Leaf Real Tea, Sweet Tea is a ready-to-drink bottled iced tea you’ll typically find in the beverage aisle and refrigerated grab-and-go cooler near other RTD teas, lemonades, and bottled sodas. Packaged in an 18.5 fl oz bottle, it sits alongside familiar supermarket staples — iced tea from other national brands, bottled water, and cold brew coffees. It suits quick convenience trips, backyard barbecues, game-day snack runs and warm-weather picnics: a portable, sweetened refreshment meant to be chilled and sipped straight from the bottle or poured over a glass of ice. Pure Leaf positions itself as a more “authentic” commercial tea: marketing leans on “real brewed tea” language, rustic label art, and the Rainforest Alliance nod to suggest ethical sourcing and a premium, less-industrial image. The label leans into a natural-health halo — “brewed black tea” and the certification callout — even though the nutrition reveals a high sugar content. There’s no child-focused branding or organic seal; the claim is mainly on “real” and certified sourcing. In processing terms this is an industrial, pasteurized, ready-to-drink beverage made from brewed tea with added sugar and citric acid for stability and flavor. Sensory notes: bright amber color, immediately sweet on the front of the tongue, rounded by mild tannic astringency and a citrus-edged finish; texture is thin and thirst-quenching rather than creamy. Rituals around it skew Southern and nostalgic — poured over ice at a picnic or grabbed from the cooler after yard work — combining convenience with a familiar, comforting sweetness.