This does not taste artificial. It's delicious! Better tasting than most actual pulpy peaches these days. You'd have to have the tastebuds of a Macho Montana Iguana to not enjoy savoring this tea. I know whereof I speak, having entertained an Irascible Iguana who only deigned to eat raw elk-burger. Then he'd run around and try to bite the cat's tail. He grew large and monstrous on elk-burger, but would never eat a peach, or any other foodstuff he was supposed to like, aside from meat.