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    "excerpt": "PG Tips Decaf Black Decaffeinated is the evening version of the everyday brew, seventy bags of the same brisk, malty black tea with the caffeine taken out after processing, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the after-dinner mug that does not have to be a compromise.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.Steep it for three and a half to four minutes rather than three, because the process takes a little body out along with the caffeine.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. Steeping adjustments, hard-water notes and what decaffeinated actually means are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.",
    "content_text": "PG Tips Decaf Black Decaffeinated is the evening version of the everyday brew: the same brisk, malty everyday character, with the caffeine taken out after the leaf has been made. Seventy bags in a box, and the whole point of it is that you can have a proper strong mug at nine at night without lying awake at one. The thing worth understanding about decaf tea is that decaffeinated does not mean caffeine-free, and the two are not interchangeable terms. Decaffeination is a solvent or carbon-dioxide process applied to finished leaf that strips out the great majority of the caffeine and leaves a small residue behind. A herbal infusion has no caffeine because it has no tea in it; a decaf black tea has very little because it started with plenty. If you need genuinely none, a chamomile or a peppermint is the honest answer and this is not. The Taste Profile\n\nBriskness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Still the lead. Decaffeination softens a black tea slightly, and this one holds more of its edge than most.\nMalt: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) The rounded, biscuit-like depth that makes it read as an everyday tea rather than an apology for one.\nBody: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Slightly lighter than the caffeinated original. This is the usual and expected cost of the process.\nAstringency: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb\u25cb (2/5) Gentler. Softer tannins are why decaf is often the easier cup late in the evening even apart from the caffeine.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.7 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind PG Tips PG Tips is one of the small handful of names that define the British everyday brew, and the decaf sits in the range as a straight swap rather than a separate idea. That matters more than it sounds. A lot of decaf tea is blended down as well as decaffeinated, so the drinker ends up giving up strength as well as caffeine and quietly stops buying it. A decaf worth keeping in the cupboard is one that still tastes like the tea it is standing in for, and that is the standard this one is trying to meet. All of those, along with the bag material and the current allergen advice, must be read off the current UK pack rather than taken from this page. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. What You Are Actually Buying \nCount: 70 bags, which is one cup each. \nWhy more than the caffeinated box: decaffeination is an extra industrial step applied to leaf that has already been processed, and it is paid for somewhere. Decaf tea costs more per cup than the equivalent standard tea almost everywhere, and this is no exception.\n\nWhat it is not: not a herbal infusion, not a sleep tea, and not resteepable. It is an everyday black tea with the stimulant taken out.\n How Does PG Tips Decaf Black Decaffeinated, 70 Tea Bags Compare to: \nPG Tips Original, 160 Tea Bags 464g: the caffeinated original and the tea this one is standing in for. Most households end up with both, the big box for daytime and this for after dinner, which is a better arrangement than compromising on one.\nYorkshire Tea Decaf English Breakfast, 80 Tea Bags 250g: the direct rival in the decaf aisle, in a slightly larger box. Yorkshire reads rounder and softer, PG Tips brisker, and the difference between them survives decaffeination more clearly than you might expect.\n\nTeapigs Decaf English Breakfast, 15 Tea Bags 50g: the speciality end of the same idea, at several times the price per cup. Worth it if you drink decaf slowly and care about the leaf; not the box for a household that gets through seventy bags a month.\n Ideal Brewing Conditions Decaf black tea needs slightly more from you than the caffeinated version does. The process takes a little body out along with the caffeine, so a bag pulled early gives you a cup that is noticeably thinner than the equivalent standard brew. The fix is thirty seconds, not a second bag. The Evening Mug \nMeasure: one bag per mug of 250 to 300ml.\nWater: straight off the boil, exactly as with the caffeinated version. Decaffeinated leaf is not delicate and full heat is still correct.\nSteep: three and a half to four minutes rather than three. This is the single adjustment that stops decaf tasting like a weaker tea.\nMilk: in after the bag comes out. A softer tea is easier to drown in milk, so pour slightly less than you would into the standard brew.\n The Pot \nMeasure: one bag per cup and one for the pot, the same rule as any everyday black tea.\nSteep: four to five minutes, then lift the bags out before the first pour.\nWarm the pot: worth the extra ten seconds with a decaf, because the gentler body shows up a lukewarm pour more plainly than a strong caffeinated brew does.\n Getting It Right in the Cup \nWater temperature: 100 degrees Celsius, straight off the boil.\nMeasure: one bag, 250 to 300ml.\nSteep: three and a half to four minutes. Longer than the caffeinated box, on purpose.\nHard water: a hard-water area hits decaf harder than standard tea because there is less body to spare. Add another thirty seconds on top.\nStorage: sealed, cool, dark, dry and away from coffee and spices.\nNot resteepable: the first steep takes what there is.\nBest with: after dinner, with a biscuit, or as the last drink of the evening in place of the one that keeps you up.\n Safety And Purity 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. Allergen note: plain black tea declares no allergen of its own, but packing lines vary. Caffeine note: decaffeinated is not caffeine-free. Anyone avoiding caffeine on medical advice should treat this as a low-caffeine tea rather than a caffeine-free one, and read the current pack. Decaffeination method: that is a matter for the current UK pack. Child safety: low caffeine rather than none.",
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                "content": "Is decaffeinated the same as caffeine-free?No, and the difference matters. Decaffeination strips out the great majority of the caffeine from finished leaf and leaves a small residue behind. A chamomile or peppermint has none because it contains no tea at all. If you need genuinely zero caffeine, buy a herbal infusion rather than this. How much caffeine is left in a cup?Treat it as a low-caffeine tea rather than a caffeine-free one and read the current UK pack if you are counting precisely. How long should I steep it?Three and a half to four minutes, which is longer than you would give the caffeinated box. Decaffeination takes a little body out along with the caffeine, and the extra thirty seconds is what puts it back. Reaching for a second bag instead is the common mistake. Does it taste different from standard PG Tips?Slightly. It keeps the briskness and the malt but sits a little lighter in the body, with softer tannins. Side by side you would tell them apart; in a mug with milk at half past nine in the evening, most people do not. How much does the box weigh?There is a separate 203g PG Tips decaf listing on our shelves and we have deliberately not borrowed its figure for this page. The pack itself is the authority. Can I drink it right before bed?Most people can, and that is the reason it exists. It is not a sleep tea though, and it is not caffeine-free. Anyone who is genuinely sensitive to caffeine, or avoiding it on medical advice, is better served by a herbal infusion in the last hour of the evening. Why does it taste thin in my area?Hard water, most likely. Dissolved minerals flatten black tea, and a decaf has less body in reserve to lose. Add another thirty seconds on top of the four minutes, or brew with filtered water. Can I resteep the bag?No. As with any everyday black tea bag the first steep takes nearly everything there is, and a second gives colour and tannin with very little flavour behind it. Does it work with milk?Yes, and that is what it is built for. Pour slightly less than you would into the caffeinated version: a softer tea is easier to drown. Milk goes in after the bag comes out, never before, or the brew stalls. How should I store it?Sealed, cool, dark and dry, away from coffee, spices and anything strongly scented. Tea picks up odours from the air readily, and a box that lives next to the coffee jar will taste of it within a month. What does it go with?Biscuits, a slice of cake, or the end of a meal. It is the tea for the hour when a standard strong brew would be a bad idea, so it tends to be drunk with pudding rather than with breakfast."
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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: decaffeinated black tea, natural flavouring.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy1 kcalFat0gof which saturates0gCarbohydrate0gof which sugars0gFibre0gProtein0.1gSalt0gIngredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.ComponentProportionWhat it bringsDecaffeinated black teaThe whole of the bagAn everyday black tea blend, decaffeinated after the leaf was made, so the brisk and malty character survives while the stimulant largely does not.Anything elseNot stated to usNo further ingredient is declared to us. If the current box lists anything beyond decaffeinated black tea, the pack governs and this page does not.Pack: PG Tips Decaf Black Decaffeinated, 70 Tea Bags; low-caffeine black tea. Store sealed, cool and dry; use within the best-before window printed on the box.Characterising components shown; the full declaration, the decaffeination method, the bag material statement and any certification marks are on the current UK pack.Sourcing & blend. PG Tips Decaf Black Decaffeinated, 70 Tea Bags is an everyday British black tea blend that has been decaffeinated. Decaffeination happens after the leaf is grown, picked and oxidised: finished tea is treated so that the caffeine is drawn out and the rest of the leaf is left as intact as the process allows. It is never perfectly selective, which is why a decaf black tea sits slightly lighter in the body than the tea it came from, and why the honest answer to how it compares is close rather than identical.What's in PG Tips Decaf Black Decaffeinated, 70 Tea Bags, and what isn't:In: decaffeinated black tea, blended for the everyday brisk-and-malty character and intended to be drunk with milk.No added flavouring, fruit pieces or flower petals: this is a plain black tea, not a flavoured one."
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                "content": "The flavour of PG Tips Decaf Black Decaffeinated, 70 Tea Bags 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: the warm, faintly bready smell of fully oxidised black leaf meeting boiling water. Decaffeination is the one process that shows up here before anywhere else, because the same treatment that carries caffeine out of the leaf carries some of the lighter aromatic compounds with it. The cup still smells of black tea, plainly and recognisably, but it smells of it a little more quietly than the caffeinated version does. That is not a fault in this particular box, it is what decaffeination does to every tea it touches.The flavour spike arrives mid palate and, as in any everyday blend, it is briskness that carries it. Briskness is the trade's word for the quick, bright, faintly mouth-drying lift a strong black tea gives on the tongue, and it is the only part of the flavour that reliably survives milk. Here it is present and clearly the lead, with the malt underneath giving the rounded, biscuit-like depth that stops the cup reading as thin. This is the densest stretch of the brew and the part that a longer steep develops most, which is precisely why a decaf wants three and a half to four minutes where the standard box wants three.The base structure is the lingering finish: a clean, gently drying note that resets the palate. Decaffeination softens the tannins along with everything else, so the finish here is shorter and easier than the caffeinated tea's, which is part of why a decaf often suits the end of the evening on texture alone rather than only on caffeine. A well made cup should still be doing that job on the final mouthful, not just the first.Getting it right in the cup. Use one bag per 250 to 300ml and steep for three and a half to four minutes in water straight off the boil; under steeping is the single most common reason a decaf tastes weaker than the tea it replaced, and the answer is thirty seconds rather than a second bag. Keep the mug covered for the first minute to trap the aromatic compounds in the liquid rather than losing them to the steam, which matters more here than with a standard tea because there are fewer of them to lose. Add milk after the bag comes out and pour slightly less than usual, because a softer tea drowns more easily. Stored sealed somewhere cool and dark the character holds well, 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. Black tea wants full boiling heat and decaffeinated black tea wants it no less; the belief that decaf is somehow delicate and needs cooler water is the quickest route to a disappointing mug. Hotter water and a longer steep pull more of the heavier, deeper compounds for a fuller, rounder result, and because this leaf has less body in reserve than the caffeinated version, that extra pull is working for you rather than against you. A shorter steep keeps it brighter but genuinely thin. Hard tap water is the bigger variable: dissolved minerals bind up the compounds that give tea its colour and briskness, and a decaf in a hard-water area can taste hollow, so add another thirty seconds or brew with filtered water. 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."
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                "content": "PG Tips Decaf Black Decaffeinated, 70 Tea Bags is an everyday black tea without the stimulant, which makes it the one to reach for after six o'clock. Five builds below cover the evening mug, a pot, a late iced tea, a milk-tea nightcap and a tea-soaked fruit loaf you can bake without a caffeine hit at midnight.\nRecipes, born here first\n\n \n The Evening Mug\n \n How to make The Evening Mug with PG Tips Decaf.\n \n 4 min\n 1 mug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 bag PG Tips Decaf\n 250 to 300ml water straight off the boil\n A splash of milk\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Pour water straight off the boil over one bag in a warmed mug.\n Steep for 3 and a half to 4 minutes, covered if you can.\n Lift the bag out without squeezing it.\n Add slightly less milk than you would to the caffeinated version.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: An evening mug with the briskness intact, which is the whole reason to keep a decaf in the cupboard.\n\n \n The After-Dinner Pot\n \n How to make The After-Dinner Pot with PG Tips Decaf.\n \n 5 min\n 4 cups\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 4 bags PG Tips Decaf\n 1 litre water straight off the boil\n Milk\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Warm the pot with a splash from the kettle and pour it away.\n Add one bag per cup and fill with water straight off the boil.\n Steep for 5 minutes, then lift every bag out before pouring.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A pot the whole table can finish at ten at night without anybody regretting it.\n\n \n Late Iced Tea\n \n How to make Late Iced Tea with PG Tips Decaf.\n \n 5 min + chill\n 1 tall glass\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 bags PG Tips Decaf\n 300ml water straight off the boil\n Half a lemon\n A full glass of ice\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Brew 2 bags in 300ml of water straight off the boil for 5 minutes, then lift them out.\n Cool to room temperature rather than icing it hot, which only waters it down.\n Pour over a full glass of ice with the juice of half a lemon.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A summer-evening iced tea you can drink at nine and still sleep after.\n\n \n Decaf Milk Tea Nightcap\n \n How to make Decaf Milk Tea Nightcap with PG Tips Decaf.\n \n 6 min\n 1 mug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 bags PG Tips Decaf\n 200ml whole or oat milk\n 100ml water\n 1 teaspoon honey\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Simmer the water and milk together gently without letting it boil over.\n Add both bags and hold at a bare simmer for 4 minutes.\n Strain into a mug and stir in the honey.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A soft, sweet milk tea for the last half hour of the evening.\n\n \n Decaf Tea Loaf\n \n How to make Decaf Tea Loaf with PG Tips Decaf.\n \n 60 min + overnight\n 1 loaf\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 3 bags PG Tips Decaf\n \u2022300g mixed dried fruit\n \u2022250g self raising flour\n 150g soft brown sugar\n 1 large egg\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Brew 3 bags in 250ml of water straight off the boil for 10 minutes, then cool.\n Soak 300g of mixed dried fruit in the cooled tea overnight.\n The next day beat in 250g of self raising flour, 150g of soft brown sugar and 1 large egg.\n Bake in a lined 2lb loaf tin at 170\u00b0C for 60 minutes.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A dark fruit loaf. Worth making with the decaf if children are going to eat it."
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