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    "excerpt": "Starbucks House Blend Lungo by Nespresso is the long-cup capsule in the Starbucks at-home range, made for Nespresso original-line machines, picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the everyday capsule for people who want a cup to sit with rather than a two-mouthful espresso.Machine fit: Nespresso original-line capsules. Not Vertuo, not Dolce Gusto, not Tassimo. Check the current UK pack against your machine before buying.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.A ten capsule box. Lungo is a volume rather than a strength: about 110ml instead of an espresso's 40ml, and a capsule built for that length rather than an espresso stretched to reach it.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.",
    "content_text": "Starbucks House Blend Lungo by Nespresso is the long-cup capsule in the Starbucks at-home range, made for Nespresso original-line machines, and the word doing the work in that name is lungo. It is not a roast level, not a strength and not a bean. It is a volume: lungo is Italian for long, and it describes a cup of about 110ml rather than an espresso's 40ml.\n\nThat distinction matters more than it sounds, because a lungo capsule is not an espresso capsule with a bigger button pressed. The capsule is built around the longer pour from the start. Pull an espresso capsule to lungo length and you keep extracting after the good part has finished, which is why the result goes thin, papery and slightly bitter at the end. Buy the capsule designed for the volume you actually drink and that problem disappears.\n\nThe other half of the name is House Blend, which in any coffee company's range is the one it puts its name on when it has nothing to prove. This is the ten capsule box of it.\n\n The Taste Profile\n\nRoast Depth: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) A middle reading, which is what a house blend is generally built to be.\nAcidity: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Present but not pushed forward. A long cup softens it further.\nBody: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Lighter than an espresso by design, because the same coffee is meeting more water.\nBitterness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb\u25cb (2/5) Low, provided the capsule is not pulled past the volume it was built for.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.7 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk\n\n Lungo Is A Volume, Not A Strength\nThree separate ideas get bundled into the way people talk about coffee strength, and separating them makes this capsule much easier to buy well. The first is roast colour, which is how dark the beans were taken. The second is concentration, which is how much coffee ends up in how much water. The third is caffeine, which is a property of the bean and the dose rather than of the roast.\nA lungo sits at a lower concentration than an espresso by design, because the same coffee is meeting more water. That is not weakness, it is a different drink, and it is the drink most British households actually want: something you can sit with rather than something you knock back in two mouthfuls. If you have been buying espresso capsules and then pressing the big button, this is the capsule you should have been buying all along.\nMachine fit: these are capsules for Nespresso original-line machines. They are not Vertuo capsules, and they are not Dolce Gusto or Tassimo pods, which are different systems entirely. Check the pack against your own machine before buying.\nPackaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; the capsules, the card outer and any film can each require a different disposal route, and some capsule ranges run their own return schemes.\n\n What A House Blend Is For\nA house blend is the least glamorous product any roaster makes and usually the most revealing. There is no origin story to lean on and no limited run to hide behind; it simply has to be good on a Tuesday, taste the same in March as it did in October, and work black and with milk. Reading one tells you what a company actually thinks a cup of coffee should be.\nBlending is also what makes that possible. A roaster working to a fixed house target can move the components as crops change and still land the same cup year after year, which no single origin can promise.\n\n How Does Starbucks House Blend Lungo by Nespresso Compare to:\n\n Starbucks by Nespresso Blonde Espresso Roast Coffee, 10 Pods: the light roast at espresso volume, and the opposite decision on both counts. Brighter, sharper and far less forgiving. Buy that one to taste origin character; buy this one to have a mug of coffee.\n Starbucks by Nespresso Decaf Espresso Coffee, 10 Pods: the same system with the caffeine taken out, at espresso volume. The sensible companion box for evenings rather than a replacement.\n Starbucks By Nespresso House Blend Coffee, 36 Pods: the same house profile in a much larger box, and the obvious next purchase if this one lands well.\n\n Ideal Brewing Conditions\nA capsule machine takes most of the variables away, which leaves four that still matter: the volume you pull, the state of the machine, the water in the tank and the temperature of the cup.\n\nThe Lungo As Intended\n\nVolume: The lungo button, around 110ml. This is what the capsule is built for and where it tastes right.\nCup: Warm the cup first with a blank shot of hot water and tip it away. A cold cup costs you real temperature on a long drink.\nWater: Fresh filtered water, changed rather than topped up. Hard water flattens any coffee and a long cup shows it more.\nFinish: Drink it black first. It is the only honest way to tell what the blend is doing before milk covers it.\n\nThe Proper Mug\n\nDo not pull it longer: pushing one capsule past its volume is what makes a coffee thin and papery.\nTwo capsules: for a full 300ml mug, run two lungos rather than one very long one.\nOr dilute: pull one lungo and add hot water to taste. That is a long black, and it is a better drink than an over-extracted one.\nResult: A mug-sized coffee that still has body, rather than a large cup of weak water.\n\n Getting a Consistent Cup\n\nDescale on schedule: scale drops the brewing temperature, and an under-extracted cup reads sour rather than weak.\nBlank shot first: if the machine has stood overnight, run 50ml of plain water through it before the first capsule.\nFilter the water: in a hard water area a filter jug does more for the cup than changing brand.\nDo not stretch it: if you want more coffee, use more coffee. Volume is not strength.\nIced: two capsules pulled at espresso length over a glass packed with ice, then cold water or milk.\n\nBest with: buttered toast, a plain croissant, a mid-morning biscuit, or on its own after lunch.\n\n Ingredients And Suitability\nWhat is in it: roasted and ground coffee, and nothing else. No added flavourings, sweeteners or preservatives.\nPack weight: printed on the current UK pack.\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.\n\nCaffeine: contains caffeine. Worth moderating late in the evening if you are sensitive, and during pregnancy in line with current NHS guidance.\nChild Safety: Keep capsules and the machine out of reach of children.",
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                "content": "What does lungo mean?It is Italian for long, and it describes a volume rather than a strength: about 110ml in the cup instead of an espresso's 40ml. It is not a roast level, not a bean and not a caffeine rating. A lungo capsule is built around that longer pour from the start. Can I just pull an espresso capsule longer instead?You can, and it is the most common reason a home capsule coffee tastes thin and papery. Stretching an espresso capsule keeps extracting after the good part has finished, which pulls the drying, slightly bitter end of the coffee into the cup. Buying the capsule made for the volume you drink removes the problem entirely. Is a lungo weaker than an espresso?Less concentrated, yes, because the same coffee is meeting more water. Weaker is the wrong word though, because it implies something is missing. It is a different drink for a different moment: one you sit with rather than one you knock back. Which machines does it fit?Nespresso original-line machines. These are not Vertuo capsules and they are not Dolce Gusto or Tassimo pods, which are entirely different systems. Check the pack against your machine before ordering. What is a House Blend?The coffee a roaster puts its name on when it has nothing to prove: no origin story, no limited run, just a cup that has to be right on a Tuesday and taste the same in March as it did in October. Blending is what makes that repeatable, because the components can move as crops change while the target cup stays fixed. Why does my capsule coffee taste sour?Usually scale. A machine overdue a descale loses brewing temperature, and an under-extracted coffee reads sour rather than weak. Warming the cup first and using fresh filtered water are the other two fixes, and all three cost nothing. Does it work with milk?Yes, though a lungo is already long, so a milk drink built on one turns out closer to a filter coffee with milk than to a flat white. For a proper milk coffee, pull two capsules at espresso length instead and add textured milk to that. How much coffee is in the box?The current UK pack carries both. Can I make iced coffee with it?Yes, but not by pulling a lungo over ice, which arrives already long and then gets diluted again. Pull two capsules at espresso length over a glass packed to the top with ice, then top with cold water or milk. Where does the coffee come from?The current UK pack carries whatever the brand declares. How should I store the capsules?In the box, somewhere cool and dry, and out of direct sunlight. Each capsule is individually sealed, which is the whole point of the format, so there is very little to go wrong before you open one."
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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: roasted and ground coffee.Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.ComponentProportionWhat it bringsRoasted and ground coffee100%The only thing in the capsule. No added flavouring, no sweetener, no preservative, no filler.Cup volumeLungo, about 110mlThe capsule is ground and dosed for the longer pour rather than being an espresso stretched to reach it.Roast levelStated on the packA house blend reading rather than a blonde or a dark extreme, but the precise level is printed on the pack rather than known to us.Bean compositionStated on the packThe origin split and the Arabica proportion are the manufacturer's to state; read the current UK pack rather than take a figure from us.Pack: Starbucks by Nespresso House Blend Lungo Coffee, 10 Pods; caffeinated capsules for Nespresso original-line machines. Go by the best before date printed on the pack.Sourcing & blend. Starbucks by Nespresso House Blend Lungo Coffee, 10 Pods is made under the at-home partnership between Starbucks and Nespresso, so it is an official original-line capsule rather than a third-party compatible. A house blend is the least glamorous product a roaster makes and the most revealing: it has to be good on a weekday, work black and under milk, and taste the same next year. Blending is what makes that promise keepable, because a roaster building to a fixed target can adjust the components as crops change in a way no single origin can.What's in Starbucks by Nespresso House Blend Lungo Coffee, 10 Pods, and what isn't:In: roasted and ground coffee, ground and dosed for a 110ml lungo extraction. Nothing else.No artificial flavourings, colours, preservatives or added sugar: any sweetness in the cup is the coffee's own.Not decaffeinated: this is a regular caffeinated coffee. A decaf capsule is sold separately in the same range.Original line only: not Vertuo, not Dolce Gusto, not Tassimo."
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                "content": "The flavour of Starbucks by Nespresso House Blend Lungo Coffee, 10 Pods 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. With a lungo there is one extra thing to hold in mind: the same coffee is spread across nearly three times the water an espresso uses, so every layer arrives softer and longer.The outer layer is aromatic and arrives partly through the crema. A lungo carries a thinner head than an espresso, because the crema that forms early in the pour is diluted by everything that follows it. That is not a fault; it is arithmetic. What it means in practice is that the aroma sits on the surface of a longer drink and lifts more gently, which suits a cup you intend to spend ten minutes with.The flavour spike arrives mid palate, and here the lungo design earns its keep. Coffee gives up its pleasant, sweet, soluble compounds first and its drying, bitter ones last. A capsule built for 110ml is ground and dosed so the good part is still arriving when the cup is full; an espresso capsule stretched to the same length has finished giving and is into the bitter end. That single difference is why one tastes rounded and the other tastes papery.The base structure is a clean, gently rounded finish that resets the palate and invites the next sip. A house blend is built to do exactly that rather than to make a statement, and a well made cup should still be worth drinking on the last mouthful.Getting it right in the cup. Use the lungo button, around 110ml, and warm the cup first with a blank shot of hot water. If you want a mug rather than a cup, run two lungos or add hot water to one, but do not push a single capsule past its volume: that is the one change that reliably makes the drink worse. Keep fresh filtered water in the tank, descale on schedule, and run 50ml of plain water through the machine before the first capsule of the day if it has stood overnight.How water and temperature change it. The same capsule gives a measurably different cup depending on how you treat the machine. A machine overdue a descale brews cooler, which under-extracts and reads sour rather than weak, and that is the single most common complaint about capsule coffee anywhere. Hard tap water mutes the lively end of a medium roast and flattens the finish, so a filter jug is a cheap upgrade in a hard water area. A cold cup costs a long drink more temperature than it costs a short one, simply because there is more liquid touching more china. None of this is a fault in the coffee; it is the same capsule responding to the cup you build around it."
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                "content": "Starbucks by Nespresso House Blend Lungo Coffee, 10 Pods is built for a 110ml cup, which decides most of what follows. Five builds below cover the cup as intended, two ways to reach mug size without ruining it, a milk drink and an iced one.Ways to brew it, worked out here first\n\n \n The Lungo As Intended\n \n How to make The Lungo As Intended with Starbucks House Blend Lungo by Nespresso.\n \n 2 min\n 1 cup\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 capsule Starbucks House Blend Lungo\n Fresh filtered water in the tank\n A warmed 150ml cup\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Warm the cup with a blank shot of hot water and tip it away.\n Extract one capsule on the lungo setting, around 110ml.\n Drink it black first, before deciding whether it needs anything.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: The cup the capsule was built for: rounded, medium bodied and clean, without the papery end a stretched espresso gives you. This is the baseline everything else here is judged against.\n\n \n The Proper Mug\n \n How to make The Proper Mug with Starbucks House Blend Lungo by Nespresso.\n \n 3 min\n 1 mug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 capsules Starbucks House Blend Lungo\n Hot water, optional\n A warmed 300ml mug\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Run two lungos into the same warmed mug rather than pushing one capsule to 300ml.\n Or pull one lungo and top it with hot water to taste, which is a long black.\n Do not stretch a single capsule. Volume is not strength.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A mug-sized coffee that still has body. The two routes taste slightly different, so try both: two capsules gives more weight, dilution gives a cleaner, lighter cup.\n\n \n The Lungo Latte\n \n How to make The Lungo Latte with Starbucks House Blend Lungo by Nespresso.\n \n 5 min\n 1 tall glass\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 capsules Starbucks House Blend Lungo\n 150ml milk, dairy or oat\n A warmed tall glass\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Extract two capsules on the espresso setting rather than one on lungo, so the coffee is concentrated enough to survive milk.\n Heat the milk to steaming and texture it to a smooth microfoam.\n Pour slowly so the milk sits on the coffee rather than punching through it.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A milk coffee where the coffee is still audible. A single lungo under this much milk reads as milky water; two short shots is the fix, and it is the same trick a cafe uses.\n\n \n Iced Lungo\n \n How to make Iced Lungo with Starbucks House Blend Lungo by Nespresso.\n \n 4 min\n 1 tall glass\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 capsules Starbucks House Blend Lungo\n A glass packed to the top with ice\n 100ml cold water or milk\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Pack a tall glass to the top with ice. Three cubes is not enough.\n Extract two capsules on the espresso setting straight over the ice.\n Top with cold water or milk and stir once.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A clean iced coffee at proper strength. Pulling a lungo over ice gives you a long drink diluted twice, which is how most home iced coffee ends up tasting of nothing.\n\n \n Coffee Ice Cubes\n \n How to make Coffee Ice Cubes with Starbucks House Blend Lungo by Nespresso.\n \n 5 min + freeze\n 1 tray\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 3 capsules Starbucks House Blend Lungo\n An ice cube tray\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Extract three lungos into a jug and let them cool completely.\n Pour into an ice cube tray and freeze.\n Use in place of ordinary ice in any iced coffee.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Iced coffee that gets stronger as it melts instead of weaker. This is the single best use for the last few capsules in a box, and it costs nothing but freezer space."
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