Pukka Organic Lemon, Ginger & Manuka Honey Tea Home Compostable Herbal, 20 Tea Bags
Worth knowing before anything else: honey is in the blend, not on the label as a flavour, so this is not one for a vegan household. For everyone else the thing to adjust is the expectation of sharpness. Dried lemon does not behave like a squeezed one; what arrives is closer to marmalade, round and slightly bittersweet, and the reviewers who mark it down are almost always the ones who wanted a clean acidic hit. The ginger is the part that does the work, arriving late and still going after the cup is empty. There is no tea leaf in it, so nothing had to be decaffeinated: it is caffeine-free as built, at any hour you like. It suits the end of a long cold day better than a bright morning.
Pukka Organic Lemon, in brief.
Pukka Organic Lemon, Ginger & Manuka Honey is the most familiar shape a herbal infusion takes in Britain, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the version where the honey is a named ingredient rather than a flavour note.
Twenty bags in a pack the brand describes as home compostable. Ginger is the slowest ingredient in any infusion, so this wants five minutes under a saucer rather than the three you would give a tea bag, and eight does no harm because there is no tannin to turn bitter. The price in your basket is the price.
Twenty bags, and the pack is described on the front as home compostable. That is the brand's own claim in the product name rather than anything we have verified, and it is a meaningful one: home compostable is a stricter standard than industrially compostable, because a garden heap never reaches the temperatures a commercial facility does. The disposal route printed on the box is the instruction to follow.
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.
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The Story Behind Pukka
Pukka builds blends the way a cook builds a dish: a lead ingredient, a counterweight, and something to round the edges. Lemon and ginger is one of the oldest pairings in the repertoire and it has an obvious weakness, which is that ginger keeps getting hotter as the cup sits while lemon does nothing to soften it. Honey answers that, and naming it on the front is Pukka being open about the architecture.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Honey is an ingredient, not a flavour note: it is named on the front of the pack. If you avoid honey, for dietary reasons or because you do not eat animal products, read the pack before buying.
- No caffeine at all: there is no tea leaf in it, so it is caffeine free by composition rather than by decaffeination, and it can be drunk at any hour.
Getting It Right in the Cup
- Water temperature: 100 degrees, freshly boiled. Nothing cooler.
- Measure: one bag per 250 to 300ml.
- Steep: five minutes covered, eight if you want the heat.
- Service: black, with extra honey or fresh lemon to taste. Milk has nothing to offer it.
- Storage: sealed, dry and dark, away from tea. A citrus and ginger blend will scent whatever sits beside it in the cupboard.
- Best with: ginger biscuits, lemon cake, after a rich meal, or on its own last thing on a cold evening.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Pukka Organic Lemon, Ginger & Manuka Honey Tea Home Compostable Herbal, 20 Tea Bags, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Pukka
Pukka is the Bristol-based organic herbal-tea brand that bridges Ayurvedic tradition with modern wellness. Every blend is certified organic, Fair for Life sourced, and built around named functional purposes (Night Time, Three Mint, Detox). Pukka was a certified B Corp until 2024, when it lost the certification after being integrated into Lipton Teas and Infusions.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
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The taste profile
How does it compare
Ginger is the slowest ingredient in any infusion that contains it, because the pungent compounds in the root need both heat and time to come out. Everything about brewing this blend follows from that. Boiling water, five minutes at least, and a cover on the mug.
The Standard Mug
The Jug, and the Cold Version
Made with this tea
The Covered Mug
How to make the standard mug of Pukka Lemon, Ginger and Manuka Honey.
- 1 bag Pukka Lemon, Ginger & Manuka Honey
- 250 to 300ml water straight off the boil
- A saucer or small plate
- A slice of fresh lemon, optional
- Pour 250 to 300ml of water straight off the boil over one bag.
- Cover the mug with a saucer for the first two minutes so the citrus aromatics stay in the liquid.
- Steep five minutes in total.
- Lift the bag out and add fresh lemon at the end if you want it sharper.
What you'll end up with: A bright cup with the ginger warmth arriving late and the honey rounding it off at the finish.
The Long Steep, For Heat
How to get the most ginger out of the bag.
- 1 bag Pukka Lemon, Ginger & Manuka Honey
- 250ml water straight off the boil
- A saucer
- Pour the water straight off the boil and cover the mug.
- Steep a full eight minutes without touching it.
- Lift the bag out and drink it while it is hot.
- There is no tannin in an infusion, so the extra minutes add heat and body rather than bitterness. This only works with water at a full boil.
What you'll end up with: A genuinely hot cup where the ginger is the loudest thing in it.
The Jug, with Fresh Root
How to make a jug for several people, doubled up on ginger.
- 3 bags Pukka Lemon, Ginger & Manuka Honey
- 750ml water straight off the boil
- 2 coins of fresh ginger root
- Lemon slices
- Honey to taste
- Add three bags and two coins of fresh ginger to a covered jug with 750ml of just boiled water.
- Steep ten minutes, covered.
- Add lemon slices and honey to taste at the end, off the heat.
- Fresh root gives a sharp green heat that sits alongside the deeper dried one rather than on top of it.
What you'll end up with: A jug with two kinds of ginger heat in it, holding its character for an hour.
Chilled Lemon and Ginger
How to make the cold version properly.
- 2 bags Pukka Lemon, Ginger & Manuka Honey
- 300ml water straight off the boil
- A full glass of ice
- Lemon
- Sparkling water, optional
- Brew two bags in 300ml, covered, for six minutes.
- Cool it completely, then pour over a full glass of ice.
- Top with sparkling water if you want it longer, and add a slice of lemon.
- Brew hot and chill. A true cold brew never gets the ginger out of the root, so it tastes of lemon and almost nothing else.
What you'll end up with: A sharp cold ginger drink with none of the sugar of a shop-bought ginger beer.
The Cold Evening Nightcap
How to build the traditional honey and lemon cup on this blend.
- 1 bag Pukka Lemon, Ginger & Manuka Honey
- 250ml water straight off the boil
- 1 teaspoon honey
- Juice of a quarter lemon
- Brew one bag, covered, for five minutes.
- Stir in the honey while the cup is still hot so it dissolves properly.
- Add the lemon juice last, off the heat.
- Acid stirred into a hot steep dulls the other flavours, which is why the lemon goes in at the end rather than the start.
What you'll end up with: The familiar winter cup, with the blend doing most of the work for you.
Ginger and Lemon Syrup
How to reduce the blend into a syrup for drinks and puddings.
- 4 bags Pukka Lemon, Ginger & Manuka Honey
- 250ml water straight off the boil
- 3 tablespoons honey
- Juice of half a lemon
- Brew four bags in only 250ml of just boiled water, covered, for ten minutes.
- Lift the bags out and stir in the honey over a low heat until it dissolves.
- Add the lemon juice off the heat, then cool and refrigerate.
- Four bags in a quarter of the usual water is what makes this a concentrate rather than a weak cordial.
What you'll end up with: A ginger and lemon syrup for hot water, sparkling water, or pouring over a fruit pudding.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Ginger | Printed on the current pack | The heat, and the loudest voice by the end of the cup. It arrives late and builds, which is why the blend wants a long steep in water straight off the boil. |
| Lemon | Printed on the current pack | The brightness. Dried citrus gives a rounder, marmalade-like acidity rather than the sharp top note of fresh juice. |
| Manuka honey | Printed on the current pack | Named on the front of the box rather than left as a flavour note. It rounds off the ginger heat so the cup finishes soft, and it is why this blend needs a dietary check that a plain lemon and ginger does not. |
| Bag | Home compostable, as stated by the brand | The claim is printed on the front of the pack and appears in the product name. We repeat it as the brand's claim; the disposal route on the box is the instruction to follow. |
Pack: Pukka Organic Lemon, Ginger & Manuka Honey Tea Home Compostable Herbal, 20 Tea Bags; a caffeine-free organic herbal infusion, GTIN 5060229011534. Store sealed, dry, dark and away from tea. Read the ingredient declaration, the proportions, the net weight, any certification marks and the best-before date off the current UK pack.
Sourcing & blend. Pukka Organic Lemon, Ginger & Manuka Honey Tea Home Compostable Herbal, 20 Tea Bags is put together by Pukka, which builds blends the way a cook builds a dish: a lead ingredient, a counterweight and something to round the edges. Lemon and ginger is one of the oldest pairings in the herbal repertoire and it has a known weakness, which is that ginger keeps getting hotter as the cup sits while lemon does nothing to soften it. Honey is the answer to that specific problem, and naming it on the front is the brand being open about the architecture. Our assessment rests on the pack format and the brand's published description.
What's in Pukka Organic Lemon, Ginger & Manuka Honey Tea Home Compostable Herbal, 20 Tea Bags, and what isn't:
- In: a caffeine-free infusion of lemon, ginger and manuka honey, with no tea leaf of any kind.
- No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: the sweetness in the cup comes from the honey named on the pack rather than from added sugar, and nothing is added to colour it.
- Honey is present: this is the one blend in the range where a dietary check matters before buying, because honey is an animal product and is named on the front of the box.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Pukka Organic Lemon, Ginger & Manuka Honey Tea Home Compostable Herbal, 20 Tea Bags, please cite teas.co.uk.
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