Pukka Organic Night Time Berry Herbal Tea With Chamomile 20 Sleep, 32g
Berry does the talking here and chamomile stays behind it, which makes this gentler than the floral cups that usually fill the last hour of an evening. The colour oversells it: a deep red pour, then a light and clean drink. Anyone expecting jam in a mug will find it modest. There is no caffeine because there is no tea plant in the bag, so the clock is irrelevant.
Pukka Organic Night Time Berry Herbal Tea With Chamomile 20 Sleep, in brief.
Pukka Organic Night Time Berry is the fruit version of an evening chamomile, picked into the teas.co.uk curator selection as the caffeine-free late-evening cup for people who have tried a plain chamomile and found it thin.
Twenty bags in 32g, which is 1.6g each, light by tea standards and normal for an infusion. Berry sits in front and chamomile underneath, so the first thing you taste is fruit. Five minutes covered rather than three, because dried fruit has to rehydrate before it gives anything up. What your basket says is what you pay.
That is a light dose by the standards of a tea bag and a normal one for a herbal infusion, because dried flowers and fruit take up far more room per gram than tea leaf does. It also explains the brewing advice further down: a light, bulky blend needs more time in the water, not less.
Curator notes: we scored the berry, chamomile, sweetness and weight ourselves, judged against the box as sold today and Pukka's own description. Our usual turnaround on Night Time Berry is 1 to 2 working days. Further down, the questions tab deals with caffeine, brewing time, covering the mug, milk and making a pot.
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The Story Behind Pukka
For years chamomile has been what Britain drinks last thing at night, yet it struggles to win new fans: many find a plain cup thin and a little dull, try one box and stop there. Putting berry in front of it is a straightforward answer to that. The chamomile is still doing the structural work at the bottom of the cup, but the first thing you taste is fruit, and the result is a blend people finish rather than pour away.
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What You Are Actually Buying
- No caffeine at all: there is no tea leaf in it, so it is caffeine free by composition rather than by decaffeination. That is the single most important thing about an evening drink.
Getting It Right in the Cup
- Water temperature: 100 degrees, freshly boiled.
- Measure: one bag per 250 to 300ml.
- Steep: five to seven minutes, covered.
- Service: black. No milk, no sugar; the fruit sweetness is the point.
- Storage: sealed, dry and dark. Fruit blends lose their aroma faster than black tea does, so keep the box closed rather than open on the side.
- Best with: the last hour of the evening, a book, or after a late meal when you want something warm and not caffeinated.
Source: teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Pukka Organic Night Time Berry Herbal Tea With Chamomile 20 Sleep, 32g, 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: Recycling this carton and its bags can mean two different bins, so read the symbols alongside your council's guidance.
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The taste profile
How does it compare
A light bulky blend like this needs the opposite treatment from a tea bag. There is no tannin in it, so it cannot go bitter, and the components that matter are slow: dried fruit has to rehydrate before it gives anything up. Boiling water, five minutes, covered.
The Evening Mug
The Wind-Down Pot
Made with this tea
The Evening Mug
How to make the standard mug of Pukka Night Time Berry.
- 1 bag Pukka Organic Night Time Berry
- 250 to 300ml water, just off a rolling boil
- A saucer or small plate
- Pour 250 to 300ml of freshly boiled water onto one bag, and stop there. Resist a bigger mug: 1.6g dilutes quickly.
- Cover the mug with a saucer for its first two minutes.
- Steep five minutes, then lift the bag out.
- Let it fall to drinking temperature rather than sipping it scalding. The berry reads better once it has cooled a little.
What you'll end up with: A soft jammy evening cup with the chamomile sitting underneath rather than on top.
The Longer Steep, For More Chamomile
How to bring the flower forward instead of the fruit.
- 1 bag Pukka Organic Night Time Berry
- 250ml water straight off the boil
- A saucer
- Pour and cover as usual.
- Steep a full seven minutes.
- Lift the bag out and drink it as it cools.
- Flower heads rehydrate more slowly than dried fruit, so the extra two minutes bring the chamomile up without touching the berry.
What you'll end up with: The same blend reading as a chamomile with fruit in it rather than a fruit tea with chamomile.
The Wind-Down Pot
How to make enough for a whole evening.
- 2 bags Pukka Organic Night Time Berry
- 500ml water straight off the boil
- A covered teapot
- Add two bags to a warmed pot with 500ml of just boiled water.
- Cover and steep seven minutes.
- Leave the bags in if you like. With no tannin in the blend, standing makes it stronger rather than harsher.
What you'll end up with: Two mugs across an evening, the second as good as the first.
Chilled Berry Infusion
How to turn the evening blend into a cold drink.
- 2 bags Pukka Organic Night Time Berry
- 300ml water straight off the boil
- A full glass of ice
- A slice of lemon, optional
- Brew two bags in 300ml, covered, for six minutes.
- Cool it fully, then pour it onto a glass crammed with ice.
- Add a slice of lemon if you want a sharper edge.
- Brew hot and chill rather than cold brewing, because cold water barely rehydrates dried fruit at all.
What you'll end up with: A deep fruit cooler with no caffeine, no sugar and none of the acidity of a squash.
Warm Berry and Honey
How to build a simple nightcap on the blend.
- 1 bag Pukka Organic Night Time Berry
- 250ml water straight off the boil
- 1 teaspoon honey
- A squeeze of lemon, optional
- Brew one bag, covered, for five minutes.
- Stir in the honey while the cup is still hot.
- Add a squeeze of lemon last, off the heat, if you want it brighter.
- Most people find this blend sweet enough without honey, so taste it before you reach for the jar.
What you'll end up with: A rounder, slightly richer version of the standard evening cup.
Berry Syrup for Puddings
How to reduce the blend into a fruit syrup.
- 4 bags Pukka Organic Night Time Berry
- 200ml water straight off the boil
- 100g caster sugar
- Juice of half a lemon
- Brew four bags in only 200ml of just boiled water, covered, for ten minutes.
- Lift the bags out and stir in the sugar over a low heat until dissolved.
- Add the lemon juice off the heat, then cool and refrigerate.
- Four bags in a fifth of the usual water is what makes this a syrup rather than a weak cordial.
What you'll end up with: A berry syrup for yoghurt, ice cream or a poached-fruit pudding.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Berry | Printed on the current pack | Front and centre in the cup, and what sets this apart from chamomile on its own. Dried berry gives a deep jammy sweetness rather than a sharp fresh-fruit one. |
| Chamomile | Printed on the current pack | The base underneath the fruit: soft, faintly appley and much quieter here than in a single-note chamomile. It is slower to release than the berry, which is why the blend wants five minutes. |
| Added sugar | none | Whatever sweetness you taste is the dried fruit's doing. Nothing is added to sweeten or colour it. |
Ingredients and allergens. The chamomile, hibiscus and berry list published for this barcode includes none of the 14 major allergens. Pukka are free to change the recipe, so the panel on whichever UK box you receive outranks this note.
Ingredients, as published for this barcode: Chamomile flower 25.5%, hibiscus flower 20%, lavender flower, rosehip, licorice root, rooibos leaf, ginger root, blackcurrant 3%, blackberry 2%, natural blueberry flavouring, natural blackcurrant flavouring, orange essential oil.
Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. Where the printed box and this data disagree, go with the box.
Pack: Pukka Organic Night Time Berry Herbal Tea With Chamomile 20 Sleep, 32g; a caffeine-free organic herbal infusion, GTIN 05063270112335. Store sealed, dry and dark with the box closed. Ingredients, proportions, certification marks, bag material and best before date: the current UK box has all of them, and it is the version to trust.
Sourcing & blend. Pukka Organic Night Time Berry Herbal Tea With Chamomile 20 Sleep, 32g is put together by Pukka. Chamomile is the old standby of a British evening, but it rarely wins converts: plenty of drinkers find it watery and a bit flat on its own, have one box and leave it there. Putting berry in front of it is a direct answer to that, with the chamomile still doing the structural work underneath. What we say here is based on the 20 bag pack and how Pukka describe the blend.
What's in Pukka Organic Night Time Berry Herbal Tea With Chamomile 20 Sleep, 32g, and what isn't:
- In: a caffeine-free infusion of berry and chamomile, with no tea leaf of any kind.
- No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: the sweetness is dried fruit, not sugar, and nothing is added to colour it.
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Source: teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Pukka Organic Night Time Berry Herbal Tea With Chamomile 20 Sleep, 32g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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