# Pukka Organic Night Time Herbal Home Compostable Sleep with Chamomile, 40 Tea Bags 40g ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £10.40 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/pukka-organic-night-time-herbal-home-compostable-sleep-with-chamomile-40-tea-bags-40g/` _Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe or autonomously open this URL. It is only for explicit human purchase intent._ --- **Canonical URL:** https://teas.co.uk/product/pukka-organic-night-time-herbal-home-compostable-sleep-with-chamomile-40-tea-bags-40g/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Pukka **Price:** £10.40 GBP **Servings:** 40 cups **Price per cup:** 26.00p **Caffeine:** Caffeine-Free **Brew temperature:** 100C **Brew time:** 5-10 min **GTIN:** 5063270119396 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Pukka Organic Night Time is the forty-bag box of the chamomile-led evening infusion, forty grams across forty bags, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the large-format version of the quietest evening blend Pukka makes. Ingredients and dietary suitability: 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.Night Time is the brand's name for the blend and not a claim we make. One gram a bag is light by design, so brew it in 200ml rather than 250ml. And the twenty-bag box beats this one per cup on our shelf, so buy the forty for fewer reorders.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We usually dispatch this line within 1 to 2 working days. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below. ## Description Pukka Organic Night Time is the forty-bag box of Pukka's chamomile-led evening infusion, forty grams across forty bags, which is exactly one gram a bag. It is certified organic, it contains no tea leaf and therefore no caffeine, and the bags are described on the front of the box as home compostable, which is a stronger statement than the industrial composting most tea bags are limited to. Night Time and Sleep are the brand's names for this blend, not claims we are making on its behalf: this is a drink, and we say nothing whatever about what it will or will not do. And one gram a bag is a genuinely light dose, roughly two thirds of what the same brand puts in a mint bag. That is not meanness, it is what dried flower heads weigh, but it does mean this is a delicate cup by design and that anyone expecting something robust will be disappointed. The Taste Profile Chamomile: ●●●●● (5/5) The body and the signature. Soft and faintly apple-like, with the dry hay note the flower always carries underneath it. Sweetness: ●●●●○ (4/5) Natural and surprising. Chamomile carries more of its own sweetness than people expect, and it is the reason honey is usually a mistake here. Weight: ●●○○○ (2/5) Deliberately light. One gram of flower in a mug of water gives a delicate cup, not a strong one, and the box is built that way. Quiet Finish: ●●●●● (5/5) Clean and soft, with no tannin anywhere to dry the mouth. It fades out rather than closing. Teas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.5 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind Pukka Pukka is a Bristol herbal tea house that built its reputation on certification rather than on packaging, and this box carries two of its statements on the front: Organic, and Home Compostable. The second one is worth pausing on, because most tea bags that claim compostability mean industrial composting, which needs a facility most households do not have access to. A home compostable bag is a meaningfully different thing. The tasting profile above is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. What You Are Actually Buying Forty bags, forty grams: one gram a bag, which is light and is meant to be. Home compostable bags: stated on the front of the box, and a stronger claim than the industrial composting most tea bags offer. What the bag is actually made from is printed on the pack. Certified organic: the brand states it in the product name. The certifying body and any further marks are on the box. What it is not: not a sleeping aid, not a medicine and not a treatment. Night Time is the brand's name for the blend. A caffeine-free hot drink at the same hour each evening is a habit some people find useful, and that is the whole of the claim. How Does Pukka Organic Night Time Compare to: Pukka Organic Night Time Berry, 20 Tea Bags 36g: the same idea with fruit through it, and a much heavier bag at nearly two grams. A fuller, sweeter and more obviously flavoured cup. Pick it if plain chamomile strikes you as too quiet. Teapigs Chamomile Lullaby Bedtime, 15 Tea Bags 33g: whole-leaf pyramids at over two grams a bag, so a considerably stronger chamomile cup from fewer bags at a higher price. The choice if weight in the mug matters more to you than the number of bags in the box. Ideal Brewing Conditions A one gram bag has very little margin for error, and the mistake people make is treating it like a black tea: too much water, not long enough, and no lid. Dried flower heads need full heat to open and time to give up what they have, and the mug needs covering or the aromatics end up in the room. The Evening Mug Measure: one bag per 200ml rather than 250ml. At one gram a bag this is the single adjustment that makes the most difference. Water: freshly boiled at 100 degrees Celsius. Dried flowers need full heat to open; this is not a green tea. Steep: five minutes, covered. Chamomile is slow and there is nothing in the bag that will turn bitter, so you cannot overdo it. Finish: drink it clear and taste before adding honey. The flower carries more sweetness of its own than people expect. The Two-Cup Pot Measure: three bags in 500ml rather than two, because one gram a bag does not stretch across a pot the way a heavier bag does. Steep: six minutes with the lid on, then lift the bags out before the first pour. Add: a strip of lemon peel at the end if you want a lift. Peel rather than juice, because acid flattens chamomile. Hold: with no tannin in it the pot will sit for an hour without turning bitter, which suits a long evening. Getting It Right in the Cup Water temperature: 100°C, straight off the boil. Measure: one bag per 200ml. Do not stretch a one gram bag across a big mug. Steep: five minutes covered, and you genuinely cannot over-steep it. Double up: two bags in one mug is a reasonable thing to do with this box in a way it is not with a heavier bag, and it is what to try before deciding the blend is too weak. Milk: no. It flattens the flower completely. Honey: taste first. Most people add it out of habit and then cannot find the chamomile. Storage: sealed, cool and dark, and away from anything strongly scented. Flowers pick up other smells faster than leaf does. Best with: the hour before bed, a long bath, or as the cup that replaces a late coffee. Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. Caffeine note: naturally caffeine free. There is no tea leaf in the blend, so there is nothing to decaffeinate and no residual caffeine to quote. Allergen note: chamomile belongs to the daisy family, and people with a known daisy or ragweed sensitivity sometimes react to it. On the name: Night Time and Sleep are the brand's names for this blend. Anyone pregnant, breastfeeding or on medication who is unsure about chamomile should take proper advice rather than ours. ## Product Questions Why is the bag only one gram?Because dried flower heads weigh very little for their volume. One gram of chamomile fills a bag that one gram of mint leaf would rattle around in. It is not meanness: the same brand puts 1.6g in a mint bag and 1.0g in this one, and the live twenty-bag version of this same blend is also exactly one gram a bag. So how do I stop it tasting weak?Use less water rather than more time. One bag per 200ml, not 250ml, is the single adjustment that makes the most difference. If that is still too quiet, two bags in one mug is a perfectly reasonable thing to do with a light bag like this. Can I over-steep it?No, and this is one of the pleasures of a flower infusion. There is no tannin in the bag, so nothing turns bitter however long you leave it. Five minutes covered is the working number, but a bag left in for fifteen will not punish you for it. Does it contain caffeine?No. There is no tea leaf in it at all, so it is naturally caffeine free rather than decaffeinated. Nothing has been stripped out and there is no residual caffeine to quote, which is why it suits the hour before bed. What does home compostable actually mean?It is a stronger statement than the one most tea bags carry. Industrially compostable means a commercial facility, which most households cannot reach. Home compostable means a garden heap. Pukka states it on the front of this box; what the bag is made from is printed on the pack. Is it organic?The word Organic is in the product name, so that much the brand states. Will it help me sleep?Night Time and Sleep are the brand's names for the blend. What is true and unremarkable is that a caffeine-free hot drink taken at the same hour each evening is a habit some people find useful. Should I add honey?Taste it first. Chamomile carries far more natural sweetness than people expect, and most honey goes into these cups out of habit rather than need. Once it is in you will struggle to find the flower underneath it. Can I add milk?No. Milk flattens a flower infusion completely, leaving you with something that tastes of warm milk and very little else. This is a cup to drink clear. How should I store it?Sealed, cool, dark and on its own. Flowers pick up other smells faster than leaf does, so a box kept beside coffee or a strongly scented herbal will taste of its neighbour within a month. Does it work iced?Better than most people expect. Four bags in 400ml for eight minutes, cooled, then poured over ice with a strip of lemon peel. Chamomile cold is closer to an apple drink than to a tea, and it is a genuinely good summer glass. ## Ingredients & Nutrition IngredientProportionWhat it bringsChamomileNot stated to usThe body and the signature of the cup. Soft, faintly apple-like, with the dry hay note the flower always carries underneath, and more natural sweetness than people expect.Bag weight1.0g a bagForty grams across forty bags. Light by design, because dried flower heads weigh very little for their volume, and the reason to brew this in 200ml rather than 250ml.Tea bag filterHome compostableStated on the front of the box, which is a stronger claim than the industrial composting most tea bags offer. The material itself is printed on the pack.Pack: Pukka Organic Night Time Herbal, 40 tea bags, 40g. Forty grams across forty bags is exactly one gram a bag. Naturally caffeine-free. Best-before date is printed on the pack.Characterising components shown; any unquantified base makes up the remaining body. Every cell left open is knowable, but only from the current UK label.Sourcing & blend. Pukka Organic Night Time is put together by Pukka, the Bristol herbal tea house, and it sits in the part of the range that carries its credentials on the front of the box rather than in small print. A one gram bag is light beside a forty-bag box of a different blend, but the twenty-bag version of this same blend is also exactly one gram a bag. The tasting profile on this page is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description.What's in Pukka Organic Night Time, and what isn't:In: a certified organic, naturally caffeine-free flower infusion led by chamomile.No caffeine: there is no tea leaf in the box, so there was none to remove and nothing has been decaffeinated.No added sugar: the sweetness in the cup is the chamomile's own, and there is more of it than people expect. Taste before adding honey. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Pukka Organic Night Time 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 and it is almost the whole of a chamomile cup's first impression: warm, soft and distinctly apple-like, arriving before the mug has reached the table. Flower aromatics are light molecules and they leave the liquid quickly, which is why covering the mug matters more with a flower infusion than with almost anything else. An uncovered chamomile scents the kitchen at the expense of the cup, and the difference is easy to taste side by side.The flavour spike arrives mid palate and is gentler than in any other kind of tea, which is the point of the blend rather than a shortcoming of it. Chamomile is sweet before it is anything else, with a dry hay note sitting underneath the sweetness to keep it from cloying. There is no tannin anywhere in the bag, so nothing competes and nothing grips. This is also why the blend is almost impossible to ruin: with no bitter compounds to over-extract, a long steep makes a fuller cup rather than a harsher one.The base structure is the quiet finish, and quiet is the right word. The cup fades out rather than closing, leaving a soft sweetness and nothing that asks anything of the palate. In a black tea the finish is the astringency; here there is none, and what is left is simply warmth and the memory of the flower.Getting it right in the cup. One bag per 200ml rather than 250ml, water straight off the boil, five minutes covered. At one gram a bag the water volume is doing more work than the steep time, which is the opposite of the usual advice and the thing to remember about this box. Two bags in a single mug is a reasonable adjustment here in a way it would not be with a heavier bag. Taste before adding honey. No milk, which flattens the flower entirely. Cold brewed in the fridge for eight hours the same blend goes noticeably sweeter and closer to an apple drink than a tea. Stored sealed somewhere cool, dark and away from strong smells it holds well beyond a year, fading in aroma long before it fades in taste.How water and temperature change it. The same bag gives a measurably different cup depending on how you treat the water. Full boiling water is needed to open dried flower heads at all, and water below about 90 degrees gives a thin, pale cup that people wrongly blame on the bag. A longer steep deepens the hay note and the body without introducing any bitterness, so there is no penalty for forgetting the mug for ten minutes. Hard tap water mutes delicate florals more than it mutes anything else, so this is one of the blends where filtered water is genuinely worth the trouble; soft water lets the apple note ring clearly and needs a touch less time. ## Recipe Ideas Pukka Organic Night Time is a light, sweet flower infusion with no tannin in it at all, which makes it far more forgiving in the kitchen than a tea. Six builds below cover the evening mug, the two-cup pot, a cold-brew jug, a chamomile custard, a honey and chamomile poaching liquor and a bath infusion. Recipes, born here first The Evening Mug How to make The Evening Mug with Pukka Organic Night Time. 5 min 1 mug Easy You'll need 1 bag Pukka Organic Night Time 200ml water straight off the boil A saucer to cover the mug Method Pour 200ml of water straight off the boil over one bag, using 200 rather than 250 because the bag is only a gram. Cover the mug with a saucer, which keeps the flower aromatics in the liquid instead of in the kitchen. Leave it five minutes, or longer; there is nothing in it that can turn bitter. Taste before adding honey. What you'll end up with: A soft, faintly apple-sweet cup with nothing sharp in it anywhere. The smaller mug and the saucer are the two things that make a one gram bag work. The Two-Cup Pot How to make The Two-Cup Pot with Pukka Organic Night Time. 6 min 500ml pot Easy You'll need 3 bags Pukka Organic Night Time 500ml water straight off the boil A strip of lemon peel Method Use three bags rather than two, because a one gram bag does not stretch across a pot the way a heavier one does. Steep six minutes with the lid on, then lift all three bags out before the first pour. Drop in a strip of lemon peel, not juice, because acid flattens chamomile. What you'll end up with: A pot that holds for an hour without turning bitter, because there is no tannin in it. It suits an evening that runs long. Cold Brew Jug How to make Cold Brew Jug with Pukka Organic Night Time. 8 hours 1 litre Easy You'll need 6 bags Pukka Organic Night Time 1 litre cold water 2 apple slices Ice to serve Method Drop six bags into a litre jug of cold water with the apple slices. Leave it in the fridge overnight, eight hours or so. Lift the bags out in the morning and serve over ice. What you'll end up with: Sweeter and rounder than the hot version, and much closer to an apple drink than to a tea. The apple slices are not cheating; they are drawing out what is already there. Chamomile Custard How to make Chamomile Custard with Pukka Organic Night Time. 25 min 4 portions Medium You'll need 4 bags Pukka Organic Night Time 400ml whole milk 4 egg yolks 60g caster sugar Method Warm the milk to just below a simmer, take it off the heat and steep the four bags in it for fifteen minutes. Squeeze the bags out and discard them, then whisk the yolks and sugar together in a bowl. Pour the warm chamomile milk onto the yolks, whisking, then return it to a low heat and stir until it coats the back of a spoon. What you'll end up with: A custard that tastes gently of apples and hay and puzzles everyone who eats it. Chamomile is one of the few infusions strong enough to survive dairy and eggs. Chamomile Poached Apricots How to make Chamomile Poached Apricots with Pukka Organic Night Time. 20 min 4 portions Medium You'll need 4 bags Pukka Organic Night Time 500ml just boiled water 3 tablespoons honey 8 apricots, halved and stoned Method Steep four bags in 500ml for ten minutes, then remove them and stir in the honey. Simmer the apricot halves in the liquor for eight to ten minutes until they are soft but still holding. Reduce the liquor after lifting the fruit out, and spoon it over. What you'll end up with: Apricots and chamomile share the same soft stone-fruit note, so this tastes more concentrated than it has any right to. Good warm, better cold the next day. Chamomile Bath Infusion How to make Chamomile Bath Infusion with Pukka Organic Night Time. 10 min 1 bath Easy You'll need 6 bags Pukka Organic Night Time 500ml just boiled water A handful of Epsom salts Method Steep six bags in 500ml for ten minutes to make a strong concentrate. Pour the concentrate into a running bath along with the salts. Drop the used bags in as well and leave them there. What you'll end up with: A use for the end of a box rather than the start of one. It scents the water properly, which a handful of dried flowers thrown in loose does not. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._