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    "excerpt": "Nescafe Original Instant Coffee in the 190g jar is the standard size of Britain's standard coffee granule: bold, dark-leaning and identical every time, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the everyday jar that has to be right before anything fancier is worth discussing.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.At the pack's guide of one teaspoon (1.8g) per 200ml mug, 190g makes about 105 mugs, which suits a single-person kitchen, a second jar for the office, or a house where tea does most of the work.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. Storage notes, water temperature guidance and flask instructions are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.",
    "content_text": "Nescafe Original Instant Coffee in the 190g jar is the standard size of the standard jar: the one that sits by the kettle in a very large number of British kitchens and gets used without anyone thinking about it. This is the everyday format rather than the household one, and for a lot of houses it is the right size for a simple reason, which is that you finish it while it is still fresh.\n\nInstant coffee does not go off, but it does fade. At the pack's guide of one teaspoon (1.8g) per 200ml mug, 190g makes about 105 mugs: about six weeks for one person drinking two a day, and a sensible buy for a single-person kitchen, a second jar for the office, or a household where coffee is an occasional thing and tea does the heavy lifting.\n\nThe Taste Profile\n\n \nStrength: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Bold and dark-leaning. This is the stronger side of the instant shelf.\n\n \nBitterness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Present on purpose. It is what keeps the cup standing up through milk and sugar.\n\n \nBody: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Medium. Soluble coffee has no oils to speak of, so weight comes from the dose rather than texture.\n\n \nConsistency: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf (5/5) Identical every time, which is the actual product being sold here.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.8 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk.\n\nThe Story Behind Nescaf\u00e9\nNestl\u00e9 launched Nescaf\u00e9 in 1938 to solve a real problem: coffee that could be stored, shipped and made one cup at a time without a brewer. Nearly ninety years on, Original is the granule at the centre of the range, below the freeze-dried Gold Blend tier, and the 190g jar is the size most people picture when they picture a jar of coffee. We stock it because a shelf that carries only expensive things is a display rather than a shop, and because the standard jar is the one that has to be right.\nPackaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.\n\nOur Commitment To The Planet\n\n Nestl\u00e9 publishes its own coffee sourcing programme and prints sourcing claims on current packs. We reprint none of them second hand; check the jar in front of you for the claims in force when you buy.\n \n Buying the size you will actually finish is the quietest bit of waste reduction there is. A large jar that goes flat at the back of a cupboard helps nobody.\n\nHow Does Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 190g Compare to:\n\n \n \n Kenco Smooth Instant Coffee: Kenco Smooth is the milder, rounder, less bitter cup at a similar price. Original goes the other way and is the better one to pick if you take a lot of milk, because it does not vanish.\n\nIdeal Brewing Conditions\nThere is one mistake that accounts for most bad instant coffee, and it is pouring water at a full rolling boil straight onto the granules. That scalds soluble coffee and pushes bitterness forward before you have added anything. Let the kettle stand for half a minute and the same jar makes a visibly better mug, which costs you nothing and requires no equipment.\n\nThe Everyday Mug\n\n \nMeasure:One rounded teaspoon, roughly 2g, per 200ml mug. Two for a 300ml mug with plenty of milk.\n\n \nWater:Just off the boil, around 90 to 95\u00b0C. Thirty seconds after the kettle clicks.\n\n \nStir:A splash of water first, worked into a paste, then top up. No grit at the bottom and a more even cup.\n\n \nFinish:Milk last, and taste before sugaring. Most over-sugared instant is covering scalded water rather than the coffee.\n\nThe Flask Serve\n\n \nWarm:Rinse the flask with hot water first and tip it out, or the first cup arrives lukewarm.\n\n \nMeasure:Three rounded teaspoons for 600ml, pasted in the bottom of the flask before the water goes in.\n\n \nFill:Water rested off the boil, right to the top. Air in a flask is what cools the contents.\n\n \nMilk:Carry it separately if you can. Milk sitting hot in a flask for four hours is the reason flask coffee has a bad name.\n\nMaking Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 190g At Home\n\nWater temperature: 90 to 95\u00b0C. Never straight off a rolling boil.\nMeasure: One rounded teaspoon, about 2g, per 200ml mug.\nMethod: Paste first with a splash of water, then top up. Two seconds, and it fixes the commonest complaint about instant.\nService: Black, or with milk and sugar. Its strength is what lets it carry a generous splash.\nIced version: Two rounded teaspoons in 100ml of hot water, sweetened while hot, then poured over a full glass of ice and topped with cold milk.\nCaffeine note: Standard caffeinated coffee, not a decaf. The decaffeinated jar is the same granule without the caffeine if the evening is the problem.\nBest with: Toast, digestives, a bacon sandwich, and any morning where speed matters more than ceremony.\nStorage: Lid on tight, cool dry cupboard, dry spoon every time. A damp teaspoon is what turns the bottom of the jar into a solid block.\n\nSafety And Purity\nThe milk and sugar carry the calories in a typical British mug.\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.\nChemical Cleanliness:Soluble coffee and nothing else. No flavourings, no added sugar, no bulking agents.\nAllergen Warning:Plain soluble coffee contains none of the standard UK allergens.\nCaffeine:Contains caffeine. UK guidance advises pregnant women limit caffeine from all sources, and individual tolerance varies considerably. If caffeine affects your sleep, keep a decaf jar alongside this one and switch after lunch.",
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                "content": "Is the 190g jar different coffee from the bigger one?No. Same soluble coffee granule, smaller jar.\nHow many mugs does 190g make?About 105, at the pack's guide of one teaspoon (1.8g) per 200ml mug: roughly seven weeks for one person drinking two a day. Anyone who takes it strong with a lot of milk will use two spoons and halve the count.\nWhat is the single biggest mistake people make with instant?Pouring water at a full rolling boil. It scalds soluble coffee and pushes bitterness forward before anything else has gone in the mug. Let the kettle stand for about thirty seconds so you are pouring at roughly 90 to 95\u00b0C. It costs nothing and it is the difference between a decent mug and the reputation instant has.\nDoes it work in a flask?Better than brewed coffee does, because there is nothing to keep extracting or to go bitter over four hours. Rinse the flask with hot water first, paste three rounded teaspoons in the bottom for 600ml, fill to the top, and carry the milk separately. Hot milk sitting in a flask all morning is what ruins flask coffee.\nHow much caffeine is in a mug?What we can say is that this is standard caffeinated coffee, not a decaf, and that Nescaf\u00e9 sells a decaffeinated version of the same granule in the same jar size.\nWhat is the quickest way to make one iced coffee?Two rounded teaspoons in 100ml of hot water, sugar stirred in while it is hot, then poured over a glass filled right to the top with ice and topped with cold milk. Fill the glass with ice rather than half filling it: a full glass melts slower and gives you a cold drink rather than a watery one.\nWhy has the bottom of my jar gone hard?Moisture, almost always from a damp teaspoon or steam from the kettle. Soluble coffee is designed to dissolve, so it will clump given any water at all. Use a dry spoon, keep the lid tight and do not store the jar directly beside the kettle spout. A clumped jar is not spoiled, only inconvenient.\n\nIs it any good for camping and caravans?It is close to ideal. A jar needs no filter, no power, no grinder and no washing up beyond a spoon, and it does not spoil in a hot car. Decant into a smaller sealed container if you are going for a weekend rather than carrying glass around, and keep it dry.\nWhy do baking recipes ask for instant coffee rather than brewed?Because it adds flavour without adding liquid. A teaspoon dissolved in a tablespoon of hot water gives concentrated coffee character for a cake batter or a buttercream, where 100ml of brewed coffee would loosen the mixture. A spoonful in a chocolate cake deepens the cocoa without the cake tasting of coffee at all.\nHow long will an open jar keep?Check the best before date on the jar for the formal answer. In practice soluble coffee does not spoil, it fades: kept dry and sealed it stays safe well past the date, but the aroma flattens over months. Six weeks of drinking, which is roughly what this jar represents for one person, is comfortably inside any freshness window.\nWhat is in the blend?Soluble coffee and nothing else, with no flavourings, added sugar or bulking agents. Nestl\u00e9 does not break the bean origins down on the jar, so we will not invent a list. Nestl\u00e9 publishes its own coffee sourcing programme and prints the relevant claims on current packs.\nWhat do I do with the empty jar?Glass is among the most reliably collected materials in UK kerbside recycling. Rinse it, take the lid off and check whether your council wants plastic lids separately. Failing that it is a good jar for dry storage, and a 190g one fits in a cupboard better than most."
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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.Ingredients, as published for this barcode: Ground Coffee.Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.IngredientProportionWhat it bringsSoluble coffee granules100%The whole of the product. Roasted coffee brewed, concentrated and dried into granules that dissolve the moment hot water reaches them.Bean blendNot broken down on packWhat the blend delivers is a bold, dark-leaning mug rather than a mellow one.Added sugar, flavourings, bulking agentsNoneNothing is added to sweeten or stretch the coffee. Instant latte and cappuccino mixes are a different product and usually contain milk.DoseAbout 2g per 200ml mugOne rounded teaspoon; two for a 300ml mug with plenty of milk. This is where nearly all the variation between households comes from.Pack: Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 190g; glass jar with a plastic lid; standard caffeinated coffee, not decaffeinated. Roughly 95 mugs at a rounded teaspoon each, about six weeks for one person drinking two a day. Check the best before date printed on the jar.Characterising components shown; soluble coffee is a single ingredient product, so the table describes the specification of that ingredient rather than a recipe. Nutritional values for black coffee made without milk or sugar are negligible; the milk and sugar are what carry the calories in a typical British mug.Sourcing & blend. Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 190g is made by Nestl\u00e9, which launched the Nescaf\u00e9 brand in 1938 with a product that solved a genuine problem: coffee that could be stored and made one cup at a time without a brewer. Original is the standard granule at the centre of the range, below the freeze-dried Gold Blend tier, and the 190g jar is the size most people picture when they picture a jar of coffee. Nestl\u00e9 publishes its own coffee sourcing programme and prints the relevant claims on current packs; we do not reprint sourcing or certification claims second hand, so check the jar in front of you for the claims in force at the time you buy.What's in Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 190g, and what isn't:In: soluble coffee granules, and nothing else.No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: no flavourings and no bulking agents either.Not decaffeinated: this is standard caffeinated coffee. Nescaf\u00e9 sells a decaffeinated version of the same granule in the same jar size.Pack: glass jar with a plastic lid. Glass is widely collected in the UK; lids often go in a different stream, so follow the current pack and your local-authority guidance."
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                "content": "The flavour of Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 190g 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 it is the layer where soluble coffee is at its greatest disadvantage. Making instant means brewing roasted coffee, concentrating it and drying it, and aromatic compounds are volatile by definition, so a share of them leaves during that process. What survives is trapped in the granule and released all at once when hot water arrives, which is why the jar smells so much stronger on opening than the finished mug does two minutes later. It is also why the temperature of the water matters more here than anywhere else in the kitchen: pour at a rolling boil and you drive that aroma off as steam while scalding what remains.The flavour spike arrives immediately and all together, because there is no extraction curve to wait through. A brewed coffee gives up its compounds in sequence over several minutes; a granule gives up everything it has in seconds. That is the honest structural difference between instant and brewed, and it is why instant reads flatter and more uniform: the peak is the whole of it. What Original contributes to that peak is strength and a deliberate dark, faintly bitter edge, and that edge is precisely what lets a mug with a generous splash of milk still taste like coffee.The base structure is the finish, and it is short, because there are effectively no coffee oils left in a soluble granule. The cup has little of the weight or lingering tail a brewed coffee leaves behind. That is the trade the format makes rather than a defect, and it is also why instant is so useful in the places brewed coffee is awkward: in a flask, where nothing keeps extracting and nothing turns bitter over four hours; in a cake batter, where a spoonful adds coffee character without adding liquid; and in a glass over ice, where there is nothing to go stale.Getting it right in the cup. Use one rounded teaspoon, about 2g, per 200ml mug, or two for a 300ml mug with a lot of milk. Work the granules into a paste with a splash of water before topping up: they dissolve completely, no grit settles and the cup is more even. Let the kettle stand for thirty seconds after it clicks so you pour at roughly 90 to 95\u00b0C. Taste before you sugar it, because a large share of the sugar that goes into instant coffee is covering scalded water rather than the coffee. Keep the spoon dry and the lid tight; moisture is what turns the bottom of a jar into a block.How water and temperature change it. The same jar gives a measurably different mug depending on how you treat the water. Water off a rolling boil pushes the harsher notes forward and thins what aroma there is; water rested to 90 to 95\u00b0C keeps the cup rounder and noticeably sweeter without changing the dose at all. Hard tap water flattens the aroma and can leave a chalky edge, so a filter jug makes a real difference in a hard water area; very soft water lets the bitterness read sharper, so use a slightly lighter spoon. Made up strong and chilled, the granules change character entirely: the bitterness recedes, the body reads sweeter, and the drink holds in the fridge for a couple of days without any of the staling a brewed iced coffee suffers. None of this is a fault in the coffee, it is the same granule responding to the cup you build around it, and once you know which way you like it the result is repeatable every time."
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                "content": "Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 190g is the jar that goes anywhere, so the builds below lean towards the places a machine cannot follow: a flask, a campsite, a glass of ice and a cake tin. Six methods, starting with the mug itself.\nBrewing methods and serving ideas, born here first\n\n \n Getting The Dose Right\n \n How to match Nescafe Original to the size of mug you actually use.\n \n 2 min\n 1 mug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 to 2 rounded teaspoons Nescafe Original\n Water at 90 to 95\u00b0C\n Milk to taste\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Measure the mug once. A standard mug is about 250ml to the brim, which is 200ml filled sensibly; the large ones people actually use are often 350ml.\n Dose one rounded teaspoon of Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 190g for 200ml, and two for anything over 300ml or for a mug with a lot of milk in it.\n Paste the granules with a splash of water, stir smooth, then fill.\n Fix weak coffee with more coffee, never with less water. Cutting the water is what makes instant taste harsh.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A mug that tastes the same every morning. Most complaints about instant are really complaints about a one-spoon dose in a 350ml mug.\n\n \n Flask Coffee For A Day Out\n \n How to fill a flask with Nescafe Original so the last cup is still worth drinking.\n \n 5 min\n 600ml flask\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 3 rounded teaspoons Nescafe Original\n 600ml water at 90 to 95\u00b0C\n Milk in a separate small bottle\n A vacuum flask\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Rinse the flask with hot water and tip it out. A cold flask takes ten degrees off the coffee before you have left the house.\n Paste 3 rounded teaspoons of Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 190g in the bottom of the flask with a little hot water.\n Fill right to the top with rested water. Air left in a flask is what cools the contents.\n Carry the milk separately and add it by the cup. Hot milk sitting in a flask for four hours is what gives flask coffee its reputation.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Three hot cups with no bitterness developing between them. Instant beats brewed in a flask because there is nothing left to keep extracting.\n\n \n Coffee Ice Cubes\n \n How to make ice from Nescafe Original so iced coffee stops going watery.\n \n 5 min + freezing\n 1 tray\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 3 rounded teaspoons Nescafe Original\n 300ml hot water\n An ice cube tray\n Cold milk, to serve\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Dissolve 3 rounded teaspoons of Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 190g in 300ml of hot water and stir until completely smooth.\n Cool to room temperature before it goes anywhere near the freezer.\n Pour into an ice cube tray and freeze solid, which takes about four hours.\n Serve by filling a glass with the cubes and topping with cold milk. As they melt the drink gets stronger rather than weaker.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Iced coffee that improves as it sits instead of turning into cold brown water. A tray lives in the freezer indefinitely.\n\n \n Jam Jar Iced Coffee\n \n How to shake up one glass of iced Nescafe Original in two minutes.\n \n 3 min\n 1 glass\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 rounded teaspoons Nescafe Original\n 100ml hot water\n Sugar to taste, optional\n A glass filled with ice\n Cold milk\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Dissolve 2 rounded teaspoons of Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 190g in 100ml of hot water in a jam jar, with the sugar if you want it.\n Cool for a minute, put the lid on and shake hard for fifteen seconds. Soluble coffee foams up well, which is the trick here.\n Fill a glass to the top with ice, not halfway.\n Pour the foamed coffee over and top with cold milk.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A foamed iced coffee with no equipment beyond a jar with a lid. Filling the glass properly with ice is what keeps it cold rather than watery.\n\n \n Chocolate Cake Booster\n \n How to use Nescafe Original to deepen a chocolate cake without it tasting of coffee.\n \n 3 min\n 1 cake\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 teaspoon Nescafe Original\n 1 tablespoon just-boiled water\n Your usual chocolate cake batter\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Dissolve 1 teaspoon of Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 190g in 1 tablespoon of just-boiled water and let it cool.\n Fold it into the batter with the wet ingredients.\n Bake as normal. One teaspoon deepens the cocoa; three would make it a coffee cake, which is a different pudding.\n Use the same trick in chocolate ganache, brownies and hot chocolate.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A darker, rounder chocolate flavour that nobody identifies as coffee. Instant works here precisely because it adds flavour without adding liquid.\n\n \n Campsite One-Pot Coffee\n \n How to make Nescafe Original on a camping stove with one pan.\n \n 6 min\n 2 mugs\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 rounded teaspoons Nescafe Original, decanted into a sealed pot\n 400ml water\n One pan and a stove\n Long-life milk, optional\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Heat 400ml of water in the pan and take it off the flame as soon as it starts to move. Do not let it reach a rolling boil.\n Add 2 rounded teaspoons of Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 190g straight into the pan and stir.\n Pour into two mugs. No filter, no grounds, no washing up beyond a rinse.\n Decant the coffee into a small sealed container before you go, and keep it dry. Glass and damp tents do not mix.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Hot coffee at a campsite with one pan and no grounds to bury. This is the job instant was invented for in 1938 and it still does it better than anything else."
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