A brighter, more layered fruit tea than the format usually delivers. The mango and passionfruit core is genuinely tropical and ripe rather than the boiled sweet note a lot of supermarket fruit bags settle for, and Lipton lifts it with lemongrass and orange peel for a fresh top end. The clever touch is liquorice root, which adds a velvety natural sweetness so it drinks rounded without any sugar, plus a faint earthy turmeric note underneath for grounding. It is best as an iced brew on a warm day, where the tropical fruit really comes alive, though it holds up hot too. Worth knowing: the liquorice gives a distinctive sweet edge some people love and others do not, so if liquorice is not your thing, sample before stocking up. Caffeine free and easy to drink, it is a solid everyday tropical infusion that does more than the price suggests.
Lee Samuel Tucker · Curator · teas.co.uk
The full picture of Lipton Mango and Passionfruit, 20 Tea Bags 36g in one page. Who makes it, how it is brewed, what your £4.00 actually buys, and why this tea earned a spot on the curator shelf.
Lipton Mango and Passionfruit is the tropical fruit and tea blend from Lipton, the global brand that spun out of Unilever in 2022 as the standalone Lipton Teas and Infusions, a black tea base flavoured with mango and passionfruit notes, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the global brand alternative to the Twinings Mango and Lychee or the Tetley fruit infused black tea variants.
The black tea provides the structural body, while the mango sits on top as the lead fruit voice with a soft tropical sweetness, the passionfruit underneath bringing the brighter perfumed tart layer that distinguishes this from a plain peach or mango black tea. Lipton aim the recipe at the iced tea pour as much as the hot mug, and the cup works particularly well over ice on a summer afternoon rather than only as the standard British hot cuppa.
Caffeine status: moderate from the black tea base, roughly thirty to fifty milligrams a cup. Taste profile: soft mango up front balanced by brighter passionfruit and a clean black tea finish. Lifestyle: vegan, vegetarian, naturally sugar free and gluten free. Planet: twenty plant based bags in fully recyclable packaging.
A twenty bag Lipton household pack at an accessible price for the global brand supermarket tier, a sensible upgrade over the standard peach or mango supermarket black teas, and the recipe that drinks particularly well over ice in summer alongside the equivalent Lipton branded bottled iced teas across the supermarket chilled drinks shelf. The Lipton spin out from Unilever in 2022 created the standalone Lipton Teas and Infusions company, and the flavoured tea bags are the bulk of the daily volume.
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Texture & appearance
Lipton Mango and Passionfruit pours a bright orange amber colour with a tropical fruit aromatic that signals tropical fruit cup before the first sip. Brewed 3-4 minutes the cup delivers mango sweetness up front, passionfruit tartness on the mid palate, and a clean black tea body underneath that keeps the cup balanced rather than fruity cordial sweet.
Mouthfeel is light medium with the fruit pieces lifting the finish above the typical supermarket fruit flavoured black tea. The cup works hot or iced, refrigerate cold brew up to 48 hours for an iced summer cup with no tannic edge. Storage: cool, dry, sealed, the fruit aromatics are humidity sensitive.
Best drunk plain (the fruit pieces add enough sweetness) or with a splash of milk for a more rounded cup. The 20-bag carton delivers 5-7 weeks of daily cup supply.
Four dimension profile
Tropical Sweetness4/5
Ripe mango and passionfruit notes that provide an indulgent fruit core.
Citrus Brightness4/5
Lemongrass and orange peel lift that provide a bright and refreshing top note.
Natural Sweetness3/5
A velvety finish derived from liquorice root for a smooth and rounded drinking experience.
Earthy Warmth2/5
Subtle grounding from turmeric that adds a layer of sophistication to the tropical profile.
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About LiptonEST. 1890
Lipton grew from one of the great self made Victorian retail stories. Thomas Lipton, a Glasgow grocer with a gift for showmanship, moved into tea in 1890 with a radical idea: buy the estates directly, cut out the middlemen, and sell good tea cheap, direct from the tea gardens to the teapot. He turned tea from a luxury into an everyday staple across Britain, America and beyond, and became a celebrity in his own right as the most persistent challenger in America's Cup yachting history. Lipton now sits at the centre of Lipton Teas and Infusions, one of the largest tea businesses on the planet.
Globally it is known for bright, brisk Yellow Label black tea and for helping define iced tea as a category. The range we carry leans into the flavoured and fruit side, bergamot Earl Grey, mango and passionfruit, lemon, built for an easy, refreshing cup. Lipton was an early and very large scale adopter of Rainforest Alliance certification, which at its volume moved a genuinely significant share of the world's tea onto a certified footing, with packaging moving to lower plastic recyclable formats. For our shelf Lipton is the accessible, internationally familiar everyday cup: the flavoured blends are bright and uncomplicated, the quality floor is dependable, and the certified sourcing scale behind it is one of the more consequential sustainability stories in tea. It is built to be easy rather than rare, and on that brief, with more than a century behind it, it delivers reliably.
What the brand is actually doing
Lipton sits within the Lipton Teas and Infusions sustainability framework, the company spun out of Unilever in 2022 focused exclusively on tea and infusions. The majority of the Lipton supply chain is Rainforest Alliance certified, supporting biodiversity protection and fair wages for tea growers. The Pure Nature herbal range uses Rainforest Alliance certified botanicals and the European fruit and citrus range supports country specific agricultural communities (Spanish citrus, Greek stone fruit, French berry, Italian citrus). Plant based plastic free tea bags across the range and fully kerbside recyclable outer cartons.
Curator says, Lee on Lipton
"A brighter, more layered fruit tea than the format usually delivers. The mango and passionfruit core is genuinely tropical and ripe rather than the boiled sweet note a lot of supermarket fruit bags settle for, and Lipton lifts it with lemongrass and orange peel for a fresh top end. The clever touch is liquorice root, which adds a velvety natural sweetness so it drinks rounded without any sugar, plus a faint earthy turmeric note underneath for grounding. It is best as an iced brew on a warm day, where the tropical fruit really comes alive, though it holds up hot too. Worth knowing: the liquorice gives a distinctive sweet edge some people love and others do not, so if liquorice is not your thing, sample before stocking up. Caffeine free and easy to drink, it is a solid everyday tropical infusion that does more than the price suggests."
TSir Thomas LiptonFounder, Glasgow, 1890 · 1890“I founded Lipton in Glasgow in 1890 because tea was a luxury for the rich and I wanted to make it affordable for working families. The trick was to buy direct from the tea gardens in Ceylon rather than through the London auction houses, which meant we could put a packet of tea on the shelf at half the price of our competitors. Direct from the tea garden to the teapot was the slogan and it was literal, we owned the gardens and we owned the packaging. Within a few years Lipton was the largest tea brand in Britain and within a couple of decades the largest in the world. The model is the same today, vertical integration from the leaf to the cup, just at a different scale and across more than a hundred countries.”
LLipton Teas + InfusionsCurrent brand owner, 2022 · 2022“In 2022 we spun out of Unilever as the new Lipton Teas and Infusions company, focusing exclusively on tea and infusions across the global Lipton portfolio. The European country specific range (Spanish lemons, Greek peach and mango, French strawberries, Italian bergamot Earl Grey) is the result of a deliberate strategy to anchor each blend in the country where the dominant ingredient is sourced, supporting local farmers and giving the cup an authentic geographic story rather than an anonymous blend identity. The Rainforest Alliance certification covers the majority of the supply chain.”
Timeline
1890Lipton founded in GlasgowSir Thomas Lipton founds Lipton Tea in Glasgow, pioneering the direct from tea garden retail model that allowed working class British households to afford tea for the first time. The brand becomes a global tea pioneer almost from launch, with the slogan Direct from the tea garden to the teapot becoming an industry defining promise.
1893Acquires Ceylon tea estatesLipton purchases tea estates in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to vertically integrate the supply chain, becoming one of the first international tea brands to own its own gardens rather than buying through commodity markets. This vertical integration is the foundation of the brand model used to this day.
1972Acquired by UnileverLipton is acquired by Unilever as part of the global beverage portfolio, expanding distribution across more than 110 countries with localised blends for individual markets. The Yellow Label becomes the global tea standard recognised in hotel rooms and supermarkets worldwide.
2000sIced tea + Pure Nature ranges launchLipton launches the bottled Iced Tea range that becomes the British supermarket benchmark for sweet bottled iced tea, alongside the Pure Nature herbal range and the country specific European fruit and citrus ranges that anchor the brand today across Spanish, Greek, French and Italian variants.
The outer layer is aromatic: a caffeine free infusion of lipton mango, passionfruit. 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 rounded 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 4 to 6 minutes in water straight off the boil; 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
Lemongrass¹
present
Primary herbal base providing fresh citrus notes.
Apple¹
present
Provides natural sweetness and body to the infusion.
White Hibiscus
present
A floral ingredient used for light tartness and golden colour.
Orange Peel¹
present
Added for bright citrus zest and aromatic lift.
Pack: Lipton Mango and Passionfruit, 20 Tea Bags 36g; caffeine free infusion. 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. Lipton Mango and Passionfruit, 20 Tea Bags 36g is put together by Lipton, the global tea brand with Rainforest Alliance sourcing. 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 Lipton Mango and Passionfruit, 20 Tea Bags 36g, and what isn't:
In: a caffeine free infusion of lipton mango, passionfruit, 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
Caffeine free
n/a
Per 200ml cup, no milk, no sugar.
Caffeine vs other drinks
Decaf coffee
4mg
Green tea
30mg
Lipton Mango and Passionfruit, 20
0mg
Instant coffee
80mg
Brewed filter coffee
95mg
Energy drink (250ml)
80mg
This tea: Caffeine free per 200ml cup.
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.😴Caffeine freeSafe at any hour.🍃0 kcalNo sugar, no fat in plain cup.🤰PregnancyUK guide: 200mg caffeine/day max.👶ChildrenServe cooled; caregiver judgement applies.
Manufactured in a facility that handles multiple tea types. Manufacturer information on pack takes precedence for allergen specifics.
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Questions about Lipton Mango and Passionfruit, 20 Tea Bags 36g
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Is Lipton Mango and Passionfruit caffeine free? Most asked+
Yes, this is a 100 per cent caffeine free fruit and herbal infusion[cite: 201]. It contains no black, green, or other stimulant based tea leaves, making it perfectly suitable for any time of day, including late evenings[cite: 221].
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What are the natural ingredients in this tropical blend? +
The blend includes Lemongrass, Apple, White hibiscus, Orange peel, Natural flavouring, Liquorice root, Rosehip, Turmeric, Mango, and Passionfruit[cite: 171]. There is no added sugar or artificial sweeteners used in this tea[cite: 171].
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What is the best way to brew fruit tea for a stronger flavour? +
Pour freshly boiled water over one of the fruit tea bags and steep for 3 to 5 minutes[cite: 209]. For a much more intensive and stronger tropical flavour, many drinkers recommend steeping the bag for up to 7 minutes to fully release the fruit essences[cite: 209, 210].
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What does Lipton Mango and Passionfruit taste like? +
It offers a juicy, luscious tropical burst of mango sweetness perfectly balanced by the tangy and zesty notes of passionfruit[cite: 206]. The addition of turmeric adds a subtle earthy depth, ensuring the flavour profile feels vibrant and authentic[cite: 171, 207].
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Does this tropical tea help with hydration and antioxidants? +
Yes, this low calorie drink is a fantastic zero sugar option for your daily hydration[cite: 192]. The white hibiscus, rosehip, and turmeric provide natural antioxidants that help protect cells from oxidative stress[cite: 175, 198].
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How do I make the perfect mango iced tea or summer mocktail? +
This blend is a firm favourite for mango iced tea[cite: 212]. Simply brew the tea hot, allow it to cool, and serve over plenty of ice[cite: 212]. It also makes a brilliant base for a healthy summer mocktail when mixed with sparkling water and fresh fruit[cite: 223].
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Is this tea suitable for diabetics or those on a keto diet? +
Absolutely. There is no added sugar or artificial sweeteners in these fruit tea bags[cite: 171]. With negligible calories and carbohydrates, it is a safe and delicious choice for those monitoring their blood glucose or following a low carb lifestyle[cite: 192, 193].
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How many bags are in a box and is the packaging sustainable? +
Each box contains 20 pyramid tea bags[cite: 169]. Lipton uses fully recyclable cardboard boxes for their UK products, and the pyramid bags are designed to be disposed of in your food waste or compost bin once used[cite: 229].
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Where can I buy Lipton Mango and Passionfruit in the UK? +
You can purchase this exotic blend directly from our online store Teas.co.uk[cite: 228]. We ship daily from our UK warehouse to ensure you receive the highest quality fruit tea bags with fast, reliable delivery[cite: 229].
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How do I brew this Lipton blend? +
Pour just off boil water (95-100°C for black tea, 80-85°C for green tea, 95-100°C for herbal) over one bag in a 250ml mug. Steep 3-5 minutes depending on strength preference (longer for stronger, shorter for lighter). Remove the bag, add milk or honey to taste depending on the variant. The Lipton range is forgiving of small brewing variations, the leaf quality means even a slightly off cup is still drinkable.
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