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    "excerpt": "Nescafe Original Decaf Instant Coffee is the decaffeinated version of Britain's most familiar instant jar in the small 100g size, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the second jar in the cupboard: the one you open after six o'clock and actually finish while it is still fresh.Ingredients and dietary suitability: The published ingredient list for this barcode 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.A 100g jar giving roughly 55 mugs at a rounded teaspoon, holding the dark, roasty Original house style rather than thinning into a mild decaf, which is why it still tastes of something under milk.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below.",
    "content_text": "Nescafe Original Decaf Instant Coffee is the decaffeinated version of Britain's most familiar instant jar, in the small 100g size. Original is the coffee most people picture when the word instant is used, and the decaf is built to the hardest brief in the range: taste like the jar it replaces. Nobody moves to decaf because they have developed a new palate. They move because of sleep, or a prescription, or a pregnancy, or simply the fourth cup of the day, and what they want back is the same mug with one thing taken out of it.\n\nThe 100g jar is the sensible way to buy it. Decaf is usually a second jar rather than a first, kept alongside the caffeinated one for after six o'clock, and a second jar that takes four months to finish is a jar that has gone quietly flat by the end. Instant coffee loses aroma from the day the seal breaks, so the smaller jar is not the worse buy it looks like on the shelf: it is the one that is still worth drinking on the last spoonful.\n\n The Taste Profile\n\nRoast Depth: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Dark and roasty in the Original house style, with a faint smokiness sitting behind it.\nBody: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Medium for an instant, and enough of it to survive a large mug with milk.\nBitterness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Deliberate rather than accidental. This is not a mild jar wearing a dark label.\nSmoothness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Rounded, with a definite bite at the end that gentler decafs do not have.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating\n4.8 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk\n\n The Story Behind Nescafe Original\n\nNescafe Original is the reference point for instant coffee in this country, and that ubiquity puts an unusual constraint on its decaf. A decaf of an unfamiliar coffee can taste like whatever the blender wants. A decaf of the standard jar has to taste like the standard jar, because the customer is deliberately trying to change one variable and leave everything else alone. Holding a dark, roasty profile through decaffeination is harder than letting it drift mild, and that is the work being paid for here. Nescafe do not publish the decaffeination process or a residual caffeine figure for this pack to us, so we quote neither.\n\nPackaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.\n\n What You Are Actually Buying\n\nWeight: 100g of decaffeinated instant coffee, the small jar rather than the household one.\nMugs per jar: at a normal 1.8g rounded teaspoon, 100g works out at roughly 55 mugs. Heap the spoon and you will get fewer. That arithmetic is ours, from the stated jar weight, and is not a figure printed on the label.\nDecaf, not caffeine free: decaffeinated coffee is coffee with almost all of the caffeine removed, not all of it. A trace remains. If you need genuinely zero caffeine, a herbal infusion is the honest answer rather than any decaf coffee.\nFreshness: the practical argument for the small jar. Instant coffee is hygroscopic and loses aroma once opened, so a jar finished in six weeks tastes better across its life than the same coffee finished in five months.\nWhat it is not: not flavoured, not a granule-and-ground hybrid, not a low-caffeine version of the standard jar. It is the decaffeinated one, in the smaller size.\n\n How Does Nescafe Original Decaf Instant Coffee, 100g Compare to:\n\nNescafe Original Decaf Instant Coffee, 190g: the identical coffee in the household jar. If decaf is what everyone in the house drinks in the evening, buy the 190g and pay less per mug. If it is a second jar for one person, the 100g is the one that stays fresh to the bottom.\nCosta Smooth Medium Roast Coffee, 100g: a caffeinated jar at the mild end of the shelf. Useful as a shape comparison if you find the Original decaf too dark and too bitter, but it will not solve a caffeine problem.\nNescafe Azera Americano Coffee, 90g: the caffeinated step up, instant granules with finely ground roasted coffee mixed back in for aroma and body. A better cup, and not a decaf, so it belongs to the morning rather than the evening.\n\n Ideal Serving Conditions\n\nDecaf instant gets treated worse than anything else in the cupboard, mostly because it is made last thing at night by somebody who has stopped concentrating. It rewards the same care as any other instant, and a carelessly made mug is the single biggest reason decaf carries a reputation it has not earned.\n\nThe Evening Mug\n\nMeasure: one rounded teaspoon, about 1.8g, per 200ml mug. Use the same spoon you use for the caffeinated jar rather than quietly using less because it is decaf.\nWater: let the kettle stand for about thirty seconds after it clicks so you are pouring at around 95 degrees Celsius. A rolling boil scorches the granules and flattens the aroma.\nOrder: granules first, a splash of hot water, stir to a smooth paste, then the rest of the water, then milk. That is what removes the grit from the bottom of the mug.\nTiming: a trace of caffeine remains. If you are very sensitive, make it an hour earlier than you think you need to rather than at bedtime.\n\nThe Small Jar Routine\n\nOpen late: if you keep a caffeinated jar and a decaf jar, open the decaf only when you reach it. An unopened jar holds its aroma; an open one starts losing it immediately.\nDry spoon every time: a wet teaspoon put back into the jar is the fastest way to a clumped brick, and 100g clumps just as readily as 190g.\nAway from the kettle: steam is moisture. A cupboard shelf away from the hob and the kettle is the right home for it.\nFinish it: six weeks is a realistic life for an opened jar at its best. The small size is sized for exactly that.\n\n Getting It Right in the Cup\n\nWater temperature: around 95 degrees Celsius, not straight off a rolling boil.\nMeasure: 1.8g, a rounded teaspoon, per 200ml mug, the same dose as the caffeinated jar.\nMilk: the dark roast character stands up to it, which is why this jar makes a better milky mug than most decafs manage.\nSugar: stir it in while the water is hot, before the milk, so it actually dissolves.\nStorage: lid tight, dry spoon, cupboard rather than worktop.\nBest with: after dinner, late evening, a biscuit, a desk drawer at work, or anywhere the caffeinated jar would be a bad idea.\n\n Safety And Purity\n\nCaffeine note: decaffeinated is not caffeine free. For a genuinely caffeine-free evening drink, a herbal infusion is the honest choice. If you are reducing caffeine on medical advice, follow the advice you were given rather than a product page.\n\nIngredients and dietary suitability: The published ingredient list for this barcode names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.\n\nAllergen note: plain instant coffee carries no declarable allergens in itself, but packing sites vary and handle other products.\n\nThe calories in a mug are the milk and the sugar.\n\nChild safety: decaffeinated coffee still contains a trace of caffeine and is not a children's drink. Keep out of reach.",
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                "content": "Is the 100g jar the same coffee as the 190g?Yes. Same decaffeinated Nescafe Original, a smaller jar. The only real difference is how long it sits open in your cupboard, and with instant coffee that matters more than people expect. Is decaffeinated coffee completely caffeine free?No. Decaffeinated means almost all of the caffeine has been removed, not all of it, and a trace remains in every decaf coffee. If you need genuinely zero caffeine, a herbal infusion is the honest answer rather than any decaf. How many mugs do I get from a 100g jar?At a normal 1.8g rounded teaspoon you get roughly 55 mugs. Heap the spoon and it will be fewer. That is our arithmetic from the stated jar weight, not a figure printed on the label. How late can I drink it?For most people an evening mug is fine, which is the entire point of the jar. Because a trace of caffeine remains, anyone who is very sensitive should make it an hour earlier than they think they need to rather than at bedtime. If you are cutting caffeine on medical advice, follow that advice. How is the caffeine removed?Commercial decaf is made by several different methods and they are not interchangeable in taste. If the method matters to you, read the current UK pack before buying. What water temperature should I use?Around 95 degrees Celsius, so let the kettle stand for thirty seconds after it clicks. Water straight off a rolling boil scorches instant granules and flattens what aroma they have, which is most of what people dislike about badly made instant. Why does my decaf taste weak?Usually because it was under-dosed. People quietly use less coffee when they switch to decaf and then conclude that decaf is weak. Use the same 1.8g teaspoon you use for the caffeinated jar and most of the difference disappears. Does it work with milk?Better than most decafs. The dark roast character has enough backbone to hold its shape in a large milky mug instead of vanishing into it, which is the usual failing of a mild decaf. Why is there grit at the bottom of the mug?Undissolved granules. Put the coffee in first with a splash of hot water, stir it to a smooth paste, then add the rest of the water and the milk. Tipping cold milk onto half-dissolved granules is what leaves the sludge. Why has my jar gone clumpy?Instant coffee is hygroscopic: it draws moisture out of the air. A loose lid, a wet teaspoon or a jar stored beside the kettle will all do it. Keep the lid tight, use a dry spoon, store it in a cupboard. Is it organic, Fairtrade or Rainforest Alliance certified?Any marks that apply are printed on the current UK pack; read them there rather than taking our word for it. Can I make iced decaf with it?Yes, and it is one of the better uses for a dark instant. Dissolve two teaspoons in 60ml of hot water, stir until smooth, then pour over a full glass of ice with cold milk. Being decaf, it is also the iced coffee you can have after dinner."
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                "content": "Ingredients and allergens. The published ingredient list for this barcode names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.ComponentProportionWhat it bringsDecaffeinated instant coffee100% of the jarCoffee that has been decaffeinated, brewed, concentrated and dried. Nothing else goes into a plain instant.Roast depthdark, Original house styleThe reason to choose this jar over a gentler decaf. Roasty and faintly smoky rather than mild and apologetic.Formatinstant granulesAlready extracted and dried, so the mug takes seconds. You are rehydrating coffee solids rather than brewing them.Pack: Nescafe Original Decaf Instant Coffee, 100g; decaffeinated instant coffee, trace caffeine. Roughly 55 mugs at a rounded 1.8g teaspoon. Keep the lid tight once opened; see the jar for the unopened best-before date.Nescafe do not publish the decaffeination process or a residual caffeine figure for this jar to us, so neither is quoted here. Certification marks, allergen advice and the exact best-before date must be read off the current UK pack.Sourcing & blend. Nescafe Original Decaf Instant Coffee, 100g is put together by Nescafe, and Original is the reference point for instant coffee in Britain: the jar most people picture when the word instant is used. That ubiquity is the constraint the decaf works under, because the customer is trying to change the caffeine and nothing else. Holding a dark, roasty profile through decaffeination is harder than letting it drift mild, and that is what is being sold. The 100g size exists for the household where decaf is the second jar rather than the first, and where a big jar would be half-empty and tired long before it was finished.What's in Nescafe Original Decaf Instant Coffee, 100g, and what isn't:\nIn: decaffeinated instant coffee, and nothing else. A plain instant jar is brewed coffee with the water taken out; it needs no additives.\nNo artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: this is an unsweetened black coffee product. Anything sweet in the mug goes in at your own kitchen table.\nNot caffeine free: a trace of caffeine remains, as it does in every decaffeinated coffee. A herbal infusion is the choice if you need genuinely none.\nPackaging: follow the current UK pack and your local-authority guidance; jars, lids and seals often take different disposal routes."
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                "content": "The flavour of Nescafe Original Decaf Instant Coffee, 100g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the mug tastes the way it does from the first lift of steam to the last swallow.The outer layer is aromatic, and a decaf instant has the hardest job of any coffee here. Decaffeination happens before roasting and moves compounds around inside the green bean; the instant process then brews, concentrates and dries the coffee, carrying most of the remaining volatiles off with the water. Aroma is captured and returned to the granules at the end, which is why a new jar smells strongly of coffee the day the seal breaks and noticeably less so two months later. In a 100g jar that decline matters less simply because you reach the bottom sooner, and that is the honest case for the small size.The flavour spike arrives mid palate as roast character: dark, toasty, faintly smoky, with a definite bitter edge. This is the layer that separates the jar from a mild decaf, and it is deliberate. A gentler decaf loses the thread the moment milk goes in; this one keeps its shape. Because the granules are already fully extracted you cannot develop this layer with a longer brew the way you can with ground coffee, so dose is the only real lever you have. A second spoon, not a hotter kettle.The base structure is the finish, and it runs longer than a mild instant leaves behind. There is a bitter tail carrying the mug, in the structural sense rather than the harsh one, and enough body to survive a large milky serve. That is what people are buying in a dark decaf: not strength in the caffeine sense, which is precisely what has been removed, but a cup that still tastes of something on the last mouthful.Getting it right in the cup. One rounded 1.8g teaspoon per 200ml, water at around 95 degrees Celsius, dissolved to a paste before the milk goes in. Under-dosing is the most common reason a decaf disappoints, and it is a habit rather than a recipe: people use less coffee when they switch and then blame the decaf. Use the same spoon you use for the caffeinated jar. Scorching is the other failure, and it comes from pouring at a rolling boil, which drives off the aroma and leaves a flat, papery taste. Thirty seconds of patience with the kettle fixes it. Storage does the rest: lid tight, dry spoon, cupboard rather than the shelf above the kettle.How water and temperature change it. The same jar gives a measurably different mug depending on how you treat the water. Water at a rolling boil flattens the aroma and pushes a scorched note forward; water around 95 degrees keeps the roast character in the liquid where you want it. Water that is too cool, below about 80 degrees, leaves granules only partly dissolved, so the mug reads thin and gritty at once. Hard tap water mutes the top end and can add a chalky edge, so in a hard water area a slightly heavier dose restores the balance, while soft water lets the roast sweetness come through more clearly. None of this is a fault in the coffee; it is the same granules responding to the mug you build around them, and once you know which way you like it the result is repeatable every time."
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                "content": "Nescafe Original Decaf Instant Coffee, 100g dissolves in seconds and keeps enough dark roast character to stand up to milk, ice and sugar. Six builds below cover the desk mug, two milk drinks, a cold one, a pudding and one for the oven.\nServing ideas, born here first\n\n \n The Desk Mug\n \n How to make The Desk Mug with Nescafe Original Decaf.\n \n 2 min\n 1 mug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 rounded teaspoon Nescafe Original Decaf\n 200ml water at 95 degrees Celsius\n Milk to taste\n Sugar if you take it\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Boil the kettle and let it stand for thirty seconds before you pour.\n Add one rounded teaspoon of Nescafe Original Decaf Instant Coffee, 100g with a splash of hot water and stir to a smooth paste.\n Top with the rest of the water, stirring as you pour.\n Finish with milk, and sugar while it is still hot if you take it. Use the same dose you would use for the caffeinated jar.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A dark, rounded mug with none of the thinness people expect from a decaf, and a jar small enough to live in a desk drawer without going stale.\n\n \n Decaf Flat White at Home\n \n How to make Decaf Flat White at Home with Nescafe Original Decaf.\n \n 5 min\n 1 small cup\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 teaspoons Nescafe Original Decaf\n 50ml water at 95 degrees Celsius\n 120ml whole milk\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Dissolve two teaspoons in only 50ml of hot water and stir hard until it is glossy and completely smooth.\n Heat 120ml of milk until steaming but never boiling, then whisk or froth it briefly.\n Pour the milk through the foam into the coffee base in one steady motion.\n Serve in a small cup rather than a mug, so the ratio stays right.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A short, milky cup where the dark roast still reads through the milk. This is the build that shows why the Original decaf is not a mild one.\n\n \n After-Dinner Iced Decaf\n \n How to make After-Dinner Iced Decaf with Nescafe Original Decaf.\n \n 5 min\n 1 tall glass\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 teaspoons Nescafe Original Decaf\n 60ml hot water\n A full glass of ice\n 150ml cold milk\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Dissolve two teaspoons in 60ml of hot water and stir until completely smooth.\n Cool the base for a minute so it does not melt the ice on contact.\n Fill a tall glass with ice, pour the base over it and top with cold milk.\n Stir once, from the bottom.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: The iced coffee you can drink at nine in the evening. Make the base stronger than feels right; the ice will dilute it.\n\n \n Whipped Decaf Topping\n \n How to make Whipped Decaf Topping with Nescafe Original Decaf.\n \n 6 min\n 2 glasses\n Medium\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 tablespoons Nescafe Original Decaf\n 2 tablespoons caster sugar\n 2 tablespoons very hot water\n Cold milk to serve\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Combine equal spoons of decaf granules, caster sugar and very hot water in a bowl.\n Whisk hard for three to five minutes, by hand or with electric beaters, until it turns pale and holds soft peaks.\n Fill two glasses with cold milk and ice.\n Spoon the whipped coffee on top and let people stir it in themselves.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A pale coffee foam that sits on cold milk. Instant granules are the only coffee that will do this, and the decaf version means it works after dinner.\n\n \n Decaf Affogato\n \n How to make Decaf Affogato with Nescafe Original Decaf.\n \n 3 min\n 1 pudding\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 teaspoons Nescafe Original Decaf\n 40ml water at 95 degrees Celsius\n 2 scoops vanilla ice cream\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Dissolve two teaspoons in only 40ml of hot water so the shot is properly concentrated.\n Put two scoops of vanilla ice cream in a cold glass or bowl.\n Pour the hot coffee over the ice cream at the table and eat it straight away.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A two-minute pudding where the bitterness of a dark decaf is doing the actual work against the sweetness. Caffeine would ruin it at this time of night; this will not.\n\n \n Coffee Sponge, Made with Decaf\n \n How to make Coffee Sponge, Made with Decaf with Nescafe Original Decaf.\n \n 45 min\n 8 slices\n Medium\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 tablespoons Nescafe Original Decaf\n 2 tablespoons hot water\n 175g butter, sugar and self-raising flour\n 3 eggs\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Dissolve two tablespoons of decaf granules in two tablespoons of hot water and let the paste cool.\n Cream 175g of butter with 175g of sugar, beat in three eggs, then fold in 175g of self-raising flour.\n Stir the cooled coffee paste through the batter until the colour is even.\n Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for about 25 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A coffee sponge with a real coffee flavour rather than a hint of one, and no caffeine in a cake the children will also eat."
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