# Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea, 80 Tea Bags 160g ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £5.20 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/clipper-fairtrade-organic-green-tea-80-tea-bags-160g/` _Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe or autonomously open this URL. It is only for explicit human purchase intent._ --- **Canonical URL:** https://teas.co.uk/product/clipper-fairtrade-organic-green-tea-80-tea-bags-160g/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Clipper **Price:** £5.20 GBP **Servings:** 80 cups **Price per cup:** 6.50p **Caffeine:** Caffeinated **Brew temperature:** 75-80C **Brew time:** 1-2 min **GTIN:** 5021991979019 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea is a soft, quiet everyday green from the Dorset tea company, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the green tea to buy if green tea has previously disappointed you.Ingredients and dietary suitability: The published ingredient list for this product names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. What makes it worth owning is not nuance but tolerance. Brewed too hot or left too long it flattens rather than turning metallic and bitter, which is the failure that puts most people off green tea in the first place.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We usually dispatch this line within 1 to 2 working days. Storage, water temperature and how to serve it alongside food are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below. ## Description Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea is the green tea to buy if green tea has previously disappointed you. That is not a tasting note, it is the actual reason to own it. Most people who say they do not like green tea have been served one brewed with water straight off the boil and left too long, which turns almost any green leaf metallic and hard. This one is unusually forgiving about exactly that, and forgiveness is worth more in a kitchen than any amount of nuance. What is in the cup is soft and quiet: a light grassy sweetness, almost no grip, and a short clean finish. It is not a complex tea and it does not pretend to be one. The Taste Profile Grassy sweetness: ●●●●○ (4/5) Soft and hay-like rather than sharply vegetal. This is the pleasant end of green tea rather than the challenging end. Forgiveness: ●●●●● (5/5) Brewed too hot or left too long it flattens rather than turning bitter. That is rare in a green tea and it is the whole argument for this box. Astringency: ●●○○○ (2/5) Very little grip. Nothing in the cup to fight, which is why it works alongside food. Depth: ●●○○○ (2/5) Modest, and honestly so. If you want weight and savour in a green cup you want one with matcha in it, not this. Teas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.8 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind Clipper Clipper is a Dorset tea company that built its name on organic and Fairtrade sourcing at a time when neither was standard on a British tea shelf, and on unbleached tea bags when most of the trade was still using bleached paper. That positioning is the brand. According to the published pack listing this is an organic and Fairtrade green tea, and both words are in the product's own name. The tasting profile above is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. What You Are Actually Buying Count and weight: 80 bags in 160g, which is 2g a bag. That is the standard green tea bag weight, sized for a cup rather than a pint mug. A daily drinker, not a special occasion: eighty bags is roughly a month in a two-person house that drinks green tea at lunch. Buy it to be drunk, not kept. Drunk clear: no milk, no sugar. A slice of lemon is fine and a slice of ginger in the cup is better than it sounds. What it is not: not a matcha, not a single-garden Japanese sencha, and not caffeine-free. It is a straightforward green tea bag that is hard to get wrong. How Does Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea, 80 Tea Bags 160g Compare to: Twinings Superblends Supergreen Matcha, 20 Tea Bags 40g: That one has body this one does not; this one is the box you actually finish. Clipper Organic Fairtrade Tea, 80 Tea Bags 232g: the black tea from the same brand, with the same certifications and the same box size. Between them they cover a whole day from one shelf. Tick Tock Original Rooibos, 80 Tea Bags 180g: Green tea until the afternoon, rooibos after it, if caffeine keeps you up. Ideal Brewing Conditions Green tea is brewed cooler and shorter than black tea, and almost everything that goes wrong with it comes from ignoring that. This particular blend is more tolerant than most, which means the advice below makes it better rather than making it drinkable. The Everyday Cup Water: 80 degrees. Boil the kettle and leave it three or four minutes, or drop a splash of cold water into the cup before the tea goes in. Measure: one bag to 200ml. A big mug dilutes a light tea badly and you cannot fix it with time. Steep: two minutes. Three is fine. Five will flatten it but will not ruin it, which is the point of this box. Finish: clear. Lemon is fine, ginger is good, milk is wrong. Second cup: the bag has very little left in it after two minutes at a proper temperature. Use a fresh one. Green Tea With Food Brew it weaker than you would drink it alone when it goes alongside a meal: ninety seconds rather than two minutes. It works with plain savoury food in a way black tea does not. Rice, steamed or grilled white fish, dumplings, anything lightly salted. It does not work with rich or spicy food. There is nothing in the cup strong enough to stand up to it, and the tea simply disappears. Getting It Right in the Cup Water temperature: 80 degrees, not boiling. Measure: one bag per 200ml. Steep: two minutes, and it will forgive you a good deal more than that. Service: clear, or with lemon or a slice of fresh ginger. Storage: sealed, dry and dark. Green tea fades faster than black, so an eighty-bag box wants finishing within a few months of opening rather than kept for a year. Best with: steamed rice, white fish, plain biscuits, or fresh fruit after a meal. Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: The published ingredient list for this product names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. Certification: the product is sold under a name that states organic and Fairtrade, and that is what we record. Caffeine note: a caffeinated green tea, and we place it at the light end of our scale for the style. Bag material: the material and the disposal route are on the box. Child safety: caffeinated, if lightly. Not a children's tea; keep out of reach. ## Product Questions I have tried green tea and disliked it. Will this be different?Possibly, and for a specific reason. Most bad green tea is a brewing accident: water straight off the boil, left five minutes, which turns almost any green leaf metallic and hard. This blend is unusually tolerant of that, and brewed properly at 80 degrees it is soft and quietly sweet. What temperature should the water be?80 degrees. Boil the kettle and leave it three or four minutes, or drop a splash of cold water into the cup before the tea goes in. You do not need a thermometer and this blend will not punish you for being approximate. How long do I brew it?Two minutes. Three is fine. Five will flatten it but will not ruin it, which is the practical difference between this and a more delicate green. How much tea is in a bag?160g across 80 bags is 2g a bag, which is the standard green tea bag weight. It is sized for a cup rather than a pint mug, and a big mug thins it out in a way a longer steep will not fix. Is it organic and Fairtrade?Both words are in the product's own name, according to the published pack listing, and that is what we record. Can I put milk in it?No. There is nothing in a light green tea strong enough to carry milk, and what you get is a pale, slightly stale-tasting cup. Drink it clear. Lemon is fine and a slice of fresh ginger in the cup is better than it sounds. Does it go with food?With plain savoury food, very well: rice, steamed or grilled white fish, dumplings, anything lightly salted. Brew it a little weaker than you would drink it alone. With rich or spicy food it simply disappears, and a black tea is the better choice. Can I brew the bag twice?Not usefully. Two minutes at a proper temperature takes most of what is in it, and the second cup is pale and papery. Loose leaf green tea will re-steep; a two gram bag will not. How much caffeine is in it?It is caffeinated, and we place it at the light end of our scale for the style. If you need a genuinely caffeine-free cup, rooibos rather than green tea is the answer. Does it work iced or cold brewed?Cold brewing suits it well. Four bags in 750ml of cold water in the fridge overnight gives a sweeter, rounder drink with almost no grip, because cold water never pulls the harsh compounds out. It needs no sugar and keeps three days. How should I store it and how long does it keep?Sealed, dry and dark, away from anything strong-smelling. Green tea fades faster than black, so an eighty-bag box wants finishing within a few months of opening rather than being kept for a year. Fading shows up as a flatter cup, not an off one. The best-before date is on the box. ## Ingredients & Nutrition Ingredients and allergens. The published ingredient list for this product names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredients, as published for this product: Organically Grown Green Tea, Tea: Traded in compliance with Fairtrade Standards, total 100%.Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.ComponentProportionWhat it bringsGreen teaThe whole of the blendEverything in the cup: the light grassy sweetness, the pale straw colour, the short clean finish and the caffeine. Nothing is blended in alongside it.Leaf per bag2gOur arithmetic on 160g across 80 bags. The standard green tea bag weight, sized for a cup rather than a pint mug.Added flavouringnoneA plain unscented green tea. No fruit pieces, no petals, no added flavouring and no added sugar.Pack: Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea, 80 Tea Bags 160g; a light caffeinated green tea, GTIN 5021991979019. Store sealed, dry and dark, and finish it within a few months of opening. Read the ingredient declaration, the certification marks, the bag material and the best-before date off the current UK pack.Characterising components shown. Our assessment of the cup rests on the pack format and the brand's published description.Sourcing & blend. Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea, 80 Tea Bags 160g is put together by Clipper, the Dorset tea company that built its name on organic and Fairtrade sourcing at a time when neither was standard on a British tea shelf, and on unbleached tea bags when most of the trade still used bleached paper. That positioning is the brand.What's in Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea, 80 Tea Bags 160g, and what isn't:In: green tea leaf in a bag, at 2g a bag, with nothing blended in alongside it.No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: an unscented green tea, so there is nothing to sweeten or colour. Any sweetness in the cup is natural to the leaf. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea, 80 Tea Bags 160g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the cup tastes the way it does from the first lift of steam to the last swallow.The outer layer is aromatic: a soft hay-like sweetness with a faint fresh-cut edge behind it. Green tea is unfired in the sense that matters here, its leaf never oxidised, so the aromatic compounds it carries are lighter and fewer than a black tea's and they leave the cup quickly. That is why a freshly poured green tea smells gently of something and a cup left standing for ten minutes smells of almost nothing, while still tasting perfectly fine. Pour it and drink it.The flavour spike arrives mid palate and is deliberately modest in this blend. Where a heavier green tea gives you savour and weight, this one gives a light grassy sweetness and then stops, with very little tannin underneath it. That restraint is a blending decision rather than a shortcoming, and it is what makes the tea tolerant: there is not much astringent material in the leaf waiting to be dragged out by careless water, so the usual punishment for over-brewing simply does not arrive. This is the densest stretch of the cup and it is still a light one.The base structure is the lingering finish: short, clean and drying only slightly, clearing the palate rather than coating it. A green tea that finishes long and hard is usually one that has been over-extracted, and this blend does not really do that. What it does instead, if you mistreat it, is go flat and papery, which is a far more forgiving failure and one you can simply drink through.Getting it right in the cup. Use one bag per 200ml at 80 degrees and steep for two minutes; three minutes is fine, five will flatten it without ruining it. Getting the temperature right matters more than getting the timing right, and the easiest way there is to boil the kettle, leave it three or four minutes, and then pour. Do not squeeze the bag, because the little astringency the leaf holds is concentrated in what is left in it. Cold brewed in the fridge for six to eight hours the same bag gives a noticeably sweeter, rounder drink with no grip at all, because cold water never pulls the harsh compounds out; that version needs no sugar and keeps three days. Stored sealed somewhere cool and dark it holds for months, but green tea fades faster than black and an opened box wants finishing rather than keeping.How water and temperature change it. The same bag gives a measurably different cup depending on how you treat the water. Water straight off the boil pushes what astringency there is forward and thins the sweetness, giving a duller, slightly metallic cup; at 80 degrees the sweetness leads and the finish stays clean; cooler still and you get something very light indeed that some people prefer with food. Hard tap water flattens the top notes and dulls the colour, so in a hard water area a filtered kettle does more for this tea than any change of timing. None of this is a fault in the blend, it is a light leaf responding to the cup you build around it, and once you have found your temperature the result is repeatable every time. ## Recipe Ideas Five builds below, starting with the cup and ending with a poaching liquor. Recipes, born here first The Forgiving Cup How to make The Forgiving Cup with Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea. 3 min 1 cup Easy You'll need 1 bag Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea 200ml water at 80 degrees A slice of lemon or fresh ginger, optional Method Boil the kettle and leave it three or four minutes, or add two tablespoons of cold water to the empty cup. Pour 200ml over one bag and steep for two minutes. Lift the bag out without squeezing it. Drink clear, or add a slice of lemon or a coin of fresh ginger. What you'll end up with: A pale straw cup with a soft grassy sweetness and a short clean finish. Three minutes will not hurt it. Five will only flatten it. Overnight Cold Brew Jug How to make Overnight Cold Brew Jug with Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea. 2 min + 8 hours 750ml Easy You'll need 4 bags Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea 750ml cold water A lidded jug A sprig of mint, optional Method Drop 4 bags into 750ml of cold water, lid on, into the fridge. Leave overnight, or at least six hours. Lift the bags out and add a sprig of mint if you have one. What you'll end up with: Sweeter and rounder than the hot cup with no grip at all, because cold water never pulls the harsh compounds out. Keeps three days. Green Tea and Ginger for a Sore Throat How to make Green Tea and Ginger for a Sore Throat with Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea. 6 min 1 mug Easy You'll need 1 bag Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea 250ml water at 80 degrees 3 coins of fresh ginger 1 teaspoon honey and a squeeze of lemon Method Drop three coins of fresh ginger into the mug and pour 250ml of 80 degree water over them. Wait two minutes, then add the tea bag for a further two. Stir in a teaspoon of honey and a squeeze of lemon once the bag is out. What you'll end up with: A warm, gently spiced drink. Giving the ginger a head start is the trick: it needs longer in the water than the tea does. Green Tea Rice How to make Green Tea Rice with Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea. 20 min 2 servings Easy You'll need 2 bags Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea 400ml water at 80 degrees 200g rice, rinsed A good pinch of salt Method Brew 2 bags in 400ml at 80 degrees for 4 minutes, then lift them out. Cook the rinsed rice in the tea instead of water, with a good pinch of salt. Rest it covered for five minutes off the heat before forking through. What you'll end up with: Rice with a faint savoury greenness to it, very good under grilled fish. Green Tea Poached Chicken How to make Green Tea Poached Chicken with Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea. 25 min 2 servings Medium You'll need 4 bags Clipper Fairtrade Organic Green Tea 1 litre water 2 chicken breasts Ginger, spring onion and a pinch of salt Method Brew 4 bags in a litre of water at 80 degrees for 5 minutes, then lift them out. Add sliced ginger, spring onion and salt, and bring the liquid to a bare shiver, never a boil. Slide the chicken breasts in, cover, and take the pan off the heat for 20 minutes. Check the chicken is cooked through before slicing. What you'll end up with: Chicken poached to a clean, faintly grassy savour rather than boiled to nothing. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._