Product Reviews

Raja's Cup
www.mapi.com
Review by Steve Pavlina

Raja's Cup is a coffee substitute sold by Maharishi Ayur-Ved Products International. It comes in boxes of 24 tea bags or in a canister ground for automatic-drip coffee makers, and it can normally be found in natural food stores. The box claims that the taste is so close to coffee that coffee drinkers didn't notice when they were served Raja's Cup instead of coffee in taste tests. Being a former coffee addict myself, I had tried other coffee substitutes, and none had tasted enough like real coffee to fool my taste buds, so I was intrigued by the bold claims and decided to give it a try.

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Well I was impressed... no, astonished. I couldn't believe it, but it tasted just like real coffee, and with a little Rice Dream and turbinado sugar, I don't have to drink it black either. This 100% caffeine-free product is all natural and contains only four ingredients: clearing nut, kasmard, licorice, and winter cherry. It also claims to be a powerful anti-oxidant, hundreds of times more powerful than vitamins C or E.

If you love the taste of coffee as much as I do but would rather do without the caffeine, then you should definitely give Raja's cup a try. It has a rich coffee-like taste that always satisfies my coffee cravings. Instead of leaving me feeling hyper though, it tends to make me feel more relaxed and calm (but never sleepy). Now I drink it almost every day. I am very pleased to have found such a great coffee substitute, and I know I'll never go back to drinking regular coffee again.

Steve Pavlina is the CEO of Dexterity Software, a computer game software company in Los Angeles. He lives with his wife, Erin Pavlina, and their daughter, Emily, in Los Angeles

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