The mint here is spearmint, not peppermint, which matters: spearmint is rounder and sweeter with none of the cold menthol slap, and that is what makes this taste authentically Moroccan rather than like a breath mint dropped in green tea. At 30 percent it leads clearly while the green base stays clean rather than bitter. There is no added sugar though, so it is the fresh, unsweetened version, sweeten it yourself if you want the full café cup. Light caffeine from the green, lovely over ice in summer.
Lee Samuel Tucker · Curator · teas.co.uk
The full picture of Good Earth Moroccan Mint Green Tea, 15 Tea Bags 27g in one page. Who makes it, how it is brewed, what your £4.50 actually buys, and why this tea earned a spot on the curator shelf.
Good Earth Moroccan Mint Green Tea is the green and mint blend in the Good Earth UK range, Chinese gunpowder green layered with real peppermint and spearmint for the bright North African cafe cup at home. It is the gunpowder based, café style one of the green mints we stock, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as a characterful daily refresher.
The blend is gunpowder green as the base, with peppermint and spearmint giving the bright, cooling lift that defines the Moroccan cup. The rule that matters with any green: brew it off the boil at around 80 to 85 degrees, since fully boiling water scorches the leaf and turns it bitter behind the mint. Steep three to four minutes. Traditionally drunk sweet in Morocco; it works well plain or with honey here.
The 15-bag pyramid carton makes about 15 cups, working out at roughly twenty pence each, broadly in line with the premium herbal pyramid category. The outer carton is fully kerbside recyclable and the pyramid bags have been plant based and biodegradable since 2022 with no synthetic mesh. The inner foil pouch is recyclable through supermarket soft plastic collection points.
Texture is a green tea infusion with a clear mint lift, light tannins from the leaf and a bright menthol cooling from the mint. The caffeine is modest, roughly twenty five to thirty milligrams a cup, lower than black, higher than white. The bright minty character makes it an excellent afternoon refresher or an after meal cup, and superb iced. Vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, no synthetic flavours or sweeteners added.
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Texture & appearance
The Moroccan Mint Green cup pours a pale to medium green gold colour, lighter than black tea and noticeably more golden than pure green tea due to the mint leaf release. The colour develops moderately within the 3-4 minute brew window at the cooler temperature. The gunpowder green tea pellets visibly unfurl in the pyramid during brewing.
Mouthfeel is bright and clean, with the green tea body providing the structural mid palate and the menthol from the mint providing the cooling sensation on the lips and palate. Light tannin character from the green tea, balanced by the smooth mint oils. Drunk plain the cup reads as a classic Moroccan cafe style cup; with sugar Moroccan style the cup becomes a serious sweet refresher.
Flavour progression moves from a bright vegetal mint opening, through a cooling menthol mid palate, to a clean lingering mint finish. The 3-4 minute brew window at 80-85C is the structural sweet spot; brewing at full boil scorches the green tea leaf and brewing too long extracts the slight catechin bitterness without proportionally adding to the mint cooling.
Aftertaste is bright and lingering, with the menthol cooling persisting for 60-90 seconds in the throat and on the lips. The modest caffeine load makes this cup suitable for morning and afternoon drinking but not the late evening for caffeine sensitive drinkers.
Storage: keep the outer carton in a cool dry cupboard. The volatile mint oils are particularly light sensitive. Best within 4 months of opening for peak flavour.
Four dimension profile
Mint Cooling5/5
Peppermint and spearmint together produce a strong cooling character.
Green Tea Body4/5
Gunpowder green tea base provides structural body, more than a herbal mint.
Brightness4/5
Bright vegetal mint top notes when brewed at the correct temperature.
Caffeine2/5
Modest, ~25-30mg per cup, lower than black tea but more than white or herbal.
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About Good EarthEST. 1972
Good Earth began in 1972 not as a tea company but as a restaurant in Santa Cruz, California, whose house sweet and spicy tea diners kept asking to buy. That blend grew into one of the original American botanical tea brands, built around bold, layered, aromatic flavour rather than British restraint. The signature Sweet and Spicy, with its cinnamon, citrus peel and liquorice, still carries a genuine cult following on both sides of the Atlantic, the kind of tea people ration and reorder. That restaurant origin explains the whole character: these are teas designed by people who cooked for a living, to be noticed rather than to fade into the background.
Good Earth is now part of Tata Consumer Products, the group behind Tetley and Teapigs, and the range leans hard into that heritage with assertive herbal, green, black and rooibos blends built around real spices and fruit. Sourcing sits in the wider Tata Rainforest Alliance framework with recyclable cartons. For our shelf Good Earth is the brand to reach for when a customer wants a herbal or spiced cup with actual presence. The blends are punchy and aromatic, the caffeine free options have real character rather than being apologetic, and the original Sweet and Spicy is one of the most memorable cups we sell at any price. It is not trying to be a delicate single estate; it is trying to be the cup you remember, and on that it delivers.
What the brand is actually doing
Good Earth sits within the Tata Consumer Products sustainability framework and has built its UK proposition around inventive flavour, real botanicals and plant based packaging. The pyramid bags transitioned to plant based biodegradable materials in 2022, removing the synthetic mesh used in earlier pyramid formats. The brand commits to Rainforest Alliance certification for key ingredients across the range, and the outer carton is fully kerbside recyclable. The blending philosophy stays anchored in real botanicals rather than synthetic flavour shortcuts, which is the structural sustainability commitment for an inventive herbal brand.
Curator says, Lee on Good Earth
"The mint here is spearmint, not peppermint, which matters: spearmint is rounder and sweeter with none of the cold menthol slap, and that is what makes this taste authentically Moroccan rather than like a breath mint dropped in green tea. At 30 percent it leads clearly while the green base stays clean rather than bitter. There is no added sugar though, so it is the fresh, unsweetened version, sweeten it yourself if you want the full café cup. Light caffeine from the green, lovely over ice in summer."
GGood Earth Original TeamRestaurant founders, Larkspur, California · 1972“We started Good Earth as a natural foods restaurant in Larkspur in 1972 because that was what the California food movement looked like at the time, fresh local ingredients, vegetarian menus, herbal infusions in the dining room instead of standard supermarket black tea. The Sweet and Spicy blend came out of the restaurant kitchen, cinnamon and cloves and citrus and ginger steeped together, and once customers asked to take it home, the tea business took on a life of its own. The philosophy has stayed the same for fifty years, real botanicals and layered flavour, and that philosophy still drives every blend we launch including the UK range stocked at Teas.co.uk today. The Sweet and Spicy blend remains the bestseller in the range fifty years after it was first served in the Larkspur dining room.”
TTata Consumer Products UKCurrent brand owner, Tetley group · 2005“Tata acquired Good Earth in 2005 from the original California ownership and the first commitment we made was to keep the inventive blending DNA intact. The Good Earth range is not about being a strict herbal medicine brand like Pukka, and it is not about being a wellness positioned brand like Yogi. Good Earth is about layered, inventive flavour, real botanicals, blends that surprise British drinkers used to chamomile on its own or peppermint on its own. The UK range we launched in 2018 has won shelf space on flavour, not on functional claims. Pyramid bags went plant based plastic free in 2022 and we are committed to Rainforest Alliance ingredients across the range. The seven blends in the UK range each have a distinct flavour profile, no two are interchangeable, which is the editorial discipline we inherited from the Larkspur kitchen.”
Timeline
1972Good Earth Restaurant opens in CaliforniaThe original Good Earth Restaurant opens in Larkspur, California, riding the early-1970s wave of natural foods restaurants on the US west coast. The kitchen experiments with herbal infusions for the dining room, blending cinnamon, cloves, citrus peel and ginger into the first version of what would later become the iconic Sweet and Spicy tea.
1980sSweet and Spicy launches as a retail teaThe Sweet and Spicy blend developed in the restaurant kitchen launches as a packaged retail tea, the first US herbal blend to fuse cinnamon, clove, citrus and warm spice on a black tea base. It defines a category and becomes the brand cornerstone, still the bestseller in the range fifty years later.
2005Tata Global Beverages acquires Good EarthTata Global Beverages, the Indian tea conglomerate that also owns Tetley, acquires the Good Earth tea brand for international distribution. Tata commits to keeping the inventive blending tradition alive and expands the range with new functional blends for the UK market.
2018UK retail expansionGood Earth expands aggressively into UK supermarket retail with a focused range of functional and flavoured herbal blends: Lemon Ginger Turmeric, Hibiscus Rose Sweet Berries, Chamomile Grapefruit, Elderflower Pear White, Moroccan Mint Green and Rooibos Chai. The pyramid plant based bags become the visual signature of the brand on UK shelves.
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Recipes built around this tea
Three curator tested ways to use Good Earth Moroccan Mint Green Tea, 15 Tea Bags 27g. Tap any card to open the full recipe with timings, measures and method.
The outer layer is aromatic: a good earth moroccan mint green tea. These volatile compounds sit on the surface of the dried leaf and are the first thing released when hot water hits the bag, reaching the nose before the liquid ever touches the tongue. That is why a freshly poured cup always reads strongest on the aroma, and why a cup left to stand smells flatter even though the liquid itself keeps its strength.
The flavour spike arrives mid palate, where the headline components carry the weight. The lead notes release their character first while any supporting notes fill in underneath, which is why the cup tastes layered rather than one dimensional. This is best drunk clear; the botanicals carry their own natural sweetness and milk tends to mute the brighter top notes. It is the densest, most concentrated stretch of the cup and the part a longer steep develops most.
The base structure is the lingering finish: a clean, gently grassy note that resets the palate and invites the next sip. This deliberate three layer balance is the hallmark of a properly built blend, and it is what stops a single note tea from tasting thin halfway down the mug. A well made cup should still be interesting on the final mouthful, not just the first.
Getting it right in the cup. Use one bag per 200 to 250ml and steep for 2 to 3 minutes at around 80°C; under steeping is the most common reason this blend tastes weaker than it should, because the heavier aromatic compounds are the slowest to leave the leaf. Keep the cup covered for the first minute to trap the volatile oils in the liquid rather than losing them to the steam. Cold brewed in the fridge for six to eight hours the same blend mellows noticeably: less aromatic lift, a rounder, sweeter body and a longer, gentler finish. Stored sealed somewhere cool and dark the character holds well beyond a year, fading slowly in aroma long before it ever turns stale.
How water and temperature change it. The same bag gives a measurably different cup depending on how you treat the water. Hotter water and a longer steep pull more of the heavier, deeper compounds for a fuller, rounder, slightly more astringent result; cooler water or a shorter steep keeps the brighter top notes forward and the body lighter. Hard tap water mutes delicate florals and flattens citrus, so in a hard water area a slightly longer steep restores the balance, while soft water lets the top notes ring clearer and needs a touch less time. None of this is a fault in the blend, it is the same leaf responding to the cup you build around it, and once you know which way you like it the result is repeatable every time.
Ingredients & pack
Ingredient
Proportion
What it brings
Good Earth Moroccan Mint
100%
The single botanical in this pure infusion selected for its characteristic flavour.
Pack: Good Earth Moroccan Mint Green Tea, 15 Tea Bags 27g; contains tea (caffeinated). Best within 18 months of the pack date.
Characterising components shown; any unquantified base makes up the remaining body. Globally sourced, blended and packed to brand specification.
Sourcing & blend. Good Earth Moroccan Mint Green Tea, 15 Tea Bags 27g is put together by Good Earth, the botanical blend tea brand. Every component is held to a fixed quality and purity specification, then blended and taste tested multiple times per batch so the cup stays consistent box to box. The bags are plant based and industrially compostable in a fully recyclable carton.
What's in Good Earth Moroccan Mint Green Tea, 15 Tea Bags 27g, and what isn't:
In: a good earth moroccan mint green tea, with nothing in the bag but the listed components and any infusion base.
No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: any sweetness is natural to the blend.
Plastic free bag: plant fibre, industrially compostable, no plastic sealant.
Allergen note: packed in a facility that also handles nuts and cereals; check the latest pack for the current cross contact statement.
Nutrition per cup
Nutrient
Per cup
% RI
Energy
4 kJ / 1 kcal
<1%
Fat
0g
0%
Carbohydrate
0.2g
<1%
of which sugars
0g
0%
Protein
0.2g
<1%
Salt
0g
0%
Caffeine
20-35 mg
n/a
L theanine
~5-10mg
n/a
Tea polyphenols
Present
n/a
Per 200ml cup, no milk, no sugar.
Caffeine vs other drinks
Decaf coffee
4mg
Green tea
30mg
Good Earth Moroccan Mint Green
35mg
Instant coffee
80mg
Brewed filter coffee
95mg
Energy drink (250ml)
80mg
This tea: 20-35 mg per 200ml cup, plus naturally occurring L theanine for calmer alertness than coffee.
Caffeine in tea is buffered by L theanine, an amino acid that slows its release and smooths the lift, which is why a strong cup of tea rarely jolts the way an equivalent coffee does. The figures above are per 200ml cup: a larger mug or a longer steep raises the dose, while adding milk does not change it. Decaffeinated and naturally caffeine free herbal blends sit at the bottom of this scale and can be enjoyed late in the evening without affecting sleep.
Allergens, dietary & safety
🌱VeganNo animal derived ingredients.🌾Gluten freeNaturally gluten free.⚡Caffeine20-35 mg per 200ml cup.🍃0 kcalNo sugar, no fat in plain cup.🤰PregnancyUK guide: 200mg caffeine/day max.👶ChildrenCaffeinated, served with care.
Manufactured in a facility that handles multiple tea types. Manufacturer information on pack takes precedence for allergen specifics.
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the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
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Questions about Good Earth Moroccan Mint Green Tea, 15 Tea Bags 27g
The questions buyers ask most. If yours isn't here, ask us directly. We reply within 4 hours, Monday to Friday.
Curated from real customer messages
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How do I brew the perfect cup of Moroccan Mint Green Tea? MOST ASKED Most asked+
Drop one pyramid bag into a 250ml mug, top with water cooled to 80-85°C (boil and wait 60-90 seconds), steep three to four minutes. The green tea leaf needs cooler water than black tea to avoid scorching. Drink plain or sweeten traditional Moroccan style with 1-2 spoonfuls of sugar.
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Is it caffeine free? +
No, contains modest caffeine from the gunpowder green tea base, approximately 25-30mg per cup. Lower than black tea (~50mg) and roughly half of standard coffee. Suitable for morning, mid day and afternoon drinking; caffeine sensitive drinkers should avoid late evening.
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What's actually in the bag? +
Chinese gunpowder green tea, peppermint leaf, spearmint leaf, natural mint flavour. Real botanicals throughout, no synthetic flavour drops, no added sugar. Vegan, vegetarian, gluten free.
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Why is it called Moroccan Mint? +
Moroccan tea culture traditionally brews gunpowder green tea with fresh spearmint and a generous amount of sugar, served in small ornate glasses three times throughout an afternoon. The cup is the social hospitality cup in Moroccan culture. Good Earth's blend brings that cafe style cup to a tea bag format for at home drinking.
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Should I add sugar like the Moroccans do? +
Traditional Moroccan style uses generous sugar (the saying "first cup bitter, second cup sweet, third cup gentle" reflects the sugar build up across servings). British drinkers tend to find the traditional sugar level too sweet. Try the cup plain first, then add sugar or honey if you want the traditional sweetness.
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Why does the water need to be cooler? +
Green tea leaf scorches at full boil 100°C, releasing excessive tannins and astringency. At 80-85°C the extraction is gentler and the bright top notes plus the mint cooling are preserved. Boil the kettle and let it sit 60-90 seconds before pouring.
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Is it vegan? +
Yes, fully vegan. All ingredients are plant based.
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Are the pyramid bags plastic free? +
Yes, since 2022 all Good Earth pyramid bags are plant based biodegradable material.
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How much caffeine per cup? +
Approximately 25-30mg per cup, in line with standard green tea. Lower than black tea (~50mg), higher than white tea (~15-25mg), much lower than coffee (~80mg).
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How does it compare to plain peppermint tea? +
Plain peppermint is caffeine free herbal. This blend is green tea based with peppermint and spearmint together. Different cup, the green tea adds body and a slight caffeine kick the herbal version lacks.
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Is the packaging recyclable? +
Outer cardboard carton is FSC certified and fully kerbside recyclable. Inner foil pouch is recyclable through supermarket soft plastic collection. Pyramid bags are plant based.
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How long does the carton stay fresh? +
Approximately 24 months from manufacture. Once opened, re seal the foil pouch tightly. Best within 4 months of opening for peak flavour, particularly the volatile mint oils.
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How is the brand owned? +
Good Earth is owned by Tata Consumer Products (same group as Tetley), acquired in 2005. The 1972 California blending philosophy of real botanicals is kept intact.
Source:Teas.co.uk,
the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
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