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    "excerpt": "Twinings English Breakfast Decaffeinated is the classic London tea house morning blend with the caffeine taken out, forty bags at one hundred and nine grams, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the evening cup for people who want tea rather than a herbal substitute.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. Decaffeinated is not caffeine-free: a residue always remains. Give it three and a half to four minutes.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, the fill-weight comparison and what decaffeinated actually means are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.",
    "content_text": "Twinings English Breakfast Decaffeinated is the classic morning blend with the caffeine taken out, forty bags at one hundred and nine grams. Divide one by the other and you get 2.725 grams of leaf a bag, which is the most interesting number on this page. The caffeinated English Breakfast carton from the same brand carries 2.5 grams a bag. The decaffeinated version is filled noticeably heavier. That is not an accident, and it is the correct answer to the usual complaint about decaf tea. Decaffeination is a process applied to finished leaf, and it takes a little body and aroma out along with the caffeine; the standard industry response is to hope nobody notices. Filling the bag heavier is the other response. The numbers themselves are the pack's. The Taste Profile\n\nBriskness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Bright and clean, and better preserved here than in most decaf blends, which the heavier fill helps with.\nMalt: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Even and unhurried. It is the slowest thing to arrive, so it rewards the extra thirty seconds.\nBody: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Medium. Decaffeination costs body; 2.725 grams a bag puts most of it back.\nAstringency: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb\u25cb (2/5) Gentle, which is decaffeination softening the tannins and makes it an easy cup late in the day.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.6 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind Twinings Twinings is the family tea house trading from London since 1706, and English Breakfast is the blend most closely associated with the English tea trade as a category rather than with any one garden. A breakfast blend is engineered for consistency and for milk: the blender's job is to hold one recognisable cup steady while the underlying crops vary season to season. Decaffeinating that blend adds a further constraint, because the process is never perfectly selective and whatever it removes has to be compensated for somewhere in the recipe or the fill. 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 \n\nA heavier fill than the caffeinated carton: 2.725 grams against 2.5 in the standard English Breakfast box. Useful to know, because it means you should not need a second bag.\nCost: A forty-bag box never spreads cost the way an eighty does, and decaffeination is an extra step that gets paid for somewhere.\n\nWhat it is not: not a herbal infusion, not a sleep tea, not flavoured and not resteepable. It is the morning blend moved to the evening.\n How Does Twinings English Breakfast Decaffeinated 40, 109g Compare to: \nTwinings English Breakfast Plant Based, 80 Tea Bags 200g: The daytime half of the pair. Buy both rather than choosing, because they are the same blend doing different jobs.\n\nYorkshire Tea Decaf English Breakfast, 80 Tea Bags 250g: a bigger box again, rounder and maltier in the cup. The better value of the three if you drink decaf through the day rather than only after dinner.\nTwinings the Earl Grey Decaffeinated Plant Based, 40 Tea Bags 100g: the same brand, the same box count, the same decaffeinated idea, with bergamot on top. Buy that one for an evening cup that tastes of Earl Grey and this one for an evening cup that tastes of tea.\n Ideal Brewing Conditions Most complaints about decaf tea are really complaints about a rushed decaf tea. The process leaves the leaf slightly slower to give up its malt, so the ninety-second bag that just about passes with a strong caffeinated blend produces something genuinely thin here. The heavier fill helps, but it is not a substitute for the clock. The Evening Mug \nMeasure: one bag per mug of 250 to 300ml. At 2.725 grams there is no need for a second.\nWater: straight off the boil. Decaffeinated leaf is not delicate, and cooler water is the quickest route to a disappointing cup.\nSteep: three and a half minutes, four if you take it strong. Half a minute more than you would give the caffeinated carton.\nMilk: in after the bag comes out. This blend takes milk well and needs less of it than a heavy builder's brew.\n The Pot \nMeasure: one bag per cup in a warmed pot. Skip the extra bag for the pot; the fill weight covers it.\nSteep: four to five minutes, then lift the bags out before the first pour.\nServe: this is the pot for after a meal, when a caffeinated one at nine at night would be a bad idea for half the table.\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, covered if you can.\nHard water: a decaf has less body in reserve, so hard water shows up faster. Add thirty seconds, or use filtered water.\nStorage: sealed, cool, dark and dry, away from coffee, spices and any scented tea sharing the shelf.\nNot resteepable: the first steep takes what there is.\nBest with: after dinner, with a biscuit, or any point in the day when you want tea and not caffeine.\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 and read the current pack. Decaffeination method: that is a matter for the current UK pack. Bag material: this product's name carries no plant-based wording, and we have not assumed it from other cartons in the range. Read the current pack for the material and the disposal route. Child safety: low caffeine rather than none.",
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                "content": "Why is the decaf filled heavier than the caffeinated one?Our reading is that it compensates for what decaffeination takes out, since the process removes a little body and aroma along with the caffeine. Is decaffeinated the same as caffeine-free?No. Decaffeination strips out the great majority of the caffeine and leaves a small residue behind. If you need genuinely none, buy a herbal infusion, which contains no tea at all. How long should I steep it?Three and a half to four minutes, which is half a minute more than the caffeinated carton wants. Decaffeinated leaf is slower to give up its malt, and a ninety-second bag that would just about pass with a strong caffeinated blend produces something genuinely thin here. Do I need two bags in a big mug?No. At 2.725 grams a bag there is enough for a 300ml mug on one. If the cup is coming out weak, the answer is almost always another thirty seconds rather than another bag. Does it taste like the caffeinated version?Close, and closer than most decafs manage. The briskness survives, the malt is a touch quieter and the tannins are softer. Side by side you would tell them apart; after dinner with a splash of milk, most people do not.Box size and process. Forty bags never spread packaging and shipping cost the way eighty do, and decaffeination is an extra industrial step applied to leaf that has already been made. Both show up in the price per cup. Why does it taste flat where I live?Hard water, most likely, and a decaf has less body in reserve to lose than a full-strength tea. Add thirty seconds on top of the four minutes, or brew with filtered water, which helps more here than extra time does. 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 a little tannin with almost no flavour behind it. How should I store it?Sealed, cool, dark and dry, away from coffee, spices and any scented tea on the same shelf. Tea takes on surrounding aromas readily, and a box kept next to an Earl Grey will start to taste of bergamot. 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 caffeinated brew would be a bad idea, so it tends to be drunk with pudding rather than with breakfast, despite the name."
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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.Ingredient 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 English Breakfast blend, decaffeinated after the leaf was made, so the bright brisk character survives while the stimulant largely does not.Pack: Twinings English Breakfast Decaffeinated 40, 109g; low-caffeine black tea. Store sealed, cool and dry; use within the best-before window printed on the carton.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. Twinings English Breakfast Decaffeinated 40, 109g is put together by Twinings, the family tea house trading from London since 1706. English Breakfast is a blend rather than a single origin, and deliberately so: the blender holds one recognisable cup steady while the underlying crops vary season to season. Decaffeination adds a further constraint, because the process happens after the leaf is grown, picked and oxidised, and it is never perfectly selective, so whatever it removes has to be compensated for in the recipe or in the fill weight. The heavier bag here is consistent with that, though the brand has published no statement of its reasoning to us and the inference is our own.What's in Twinings English Breakfast Decaffeinated 40, 109g, and what isn't:In: decaffeinated black tea, 2.725 grams a bag, blended bright and brisk and intended to be drunk with milk.No added flavouring, fruit pieces or flower petals: a plain black tea, not a flavoured one."
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                "content": "The flavour of Twinings English Breakfast Decaffeinated 40, 109g 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 shows up here before it shows up anywhere else, because the treatment that carries caffeine out of the leaf carries some of the lighter aromatic compounds with it. The cup still smells plainly of black tea, and at 2.725 grams a bag there is more leaf releasing that aroma than in a standard 2.5 gram fill, which is a large part of why this reads fuller on the nose than most decaf blends do. Those compounds are volatile and leave first, so a freshly poured mug smells strongest and one left standing smells of almost nothing even though the liquid keeps its strength.The flavour spike arrives mid palate and, as in any breakfast blend, briskness carries it. Briskness is the trade's word for the quick, bright, faintly mouth-drying lift a black tea gives on the tongue, and it is the part of the flavour that survives milk intact. Underneath sits an even malt, and the malt is the slowest thing in the bag to arrive. That is the whole reason a decaf wants three and a half to four minutes where the caffeinated carton wants three: it is not that the tea is weaker, it is that the part which gives it weight has further to travel. This is the densest stretch of the cup and the part a longer steep develops most.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 blend's, which is part of why a decaf 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 any decaf tastes weaker than the tea it replaced, and the answer is thirty seconds rather than a second bag, particularly here where the fill is already generous. 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 with a decaf because there are fewer of them to lose. Add milk after the bag comes out and use a lighter hand than you would with a builder's blend. 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 since this leaf gives up its malt slowly, that extra pull is working for you rather than against you. A shorter steep keeps it bright but 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 even at a heavy fill, so filtered water is worth more here than another thirty seconds. 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": "Twinings English Breakfast Decaffeinated 40, 109g is the morning blend moved to the evening, at a heavier fill than the caffeinated carton. Five builds below cover the evening mug, the after-dinner pot, a late iced tea, a decaf breakfast fog and a batch of tea-soaked prunes.\nRecipes, born here first\n\n \n The Evening Mug\n \n How to make The Evening Mug with Twinings English Breakfast Decaf.\n \n 4 min\n 1 mug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 bag Twinings English Breakfast 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 for the first minute.\n Lift the bag out, then add milk with a lighter hand than you would use on a builder's brew.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A bright evening cup that still reads as tea rather than as a substitute for it.\n\n \n The After-Dinner Pot\n \n How to make The After-Dinner Pot with Twinings English Breakfast Decaf.\n \n 5 min\n 4 cups\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 4 bags Twinings English Breakfast 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 skip the extra for the pot; the fill weight covers it.\n Steep 5 minutes, then lift every bag out before the first pour.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A pot the whole table can finish at nine at night without anybody regretting it.\n\n \n Late Iced Tea\n \n How to make Late Iced Tea with Twinings English Breakfast Decaf.\n \n 5 min + chill\n 1 tall glass\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 bags Twinings English Breakfast Decaf\n 300ml water straight off the boil\n Half a lemon\n A full glass of ice\n Sugar to taste\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 Sweeten while hot so the sugar dissolves properly.\n Cool to room temperature, then 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 Breakfast Fog\n \n How to make Decaf Breakfast Fog with Twinings English Breakfast Decaf.\n \n 5 min\n 1 mug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 bags Twinings English Breakfast Decaf\n 120ml water straight off the boil\n 150ml steamed or hot milk\n 1 teaspoon honey\n A drop of vanilla extract\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Brew 2 bags in 120ml of water straight off the boil for 5 minutes to make a concentrate.\n Stir in the honey and vanilla while hot.\n Top with 150ml of steamed or simply hot milk.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A vanilla milk tea built on breakfast tea rather than Earl Grey, and drinkable at bedtime.\n\n \n Tea Soaked Breakfast Prunes\n \n How to make Tea Soaked Breakfast Prunes with Twinings English Breakfast Decaf.\n \n 10 min + overnight\n 1 jar\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 3 bags Twinings English Breakfast Decaf\n 400ml water straight off the boil\n \u2022300g pitted prunes\n A strip of orange peel\n 1 cinnamon stick\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Brew 3 bags in 400ml of water straight off the boil for 10 minutes, then lift them out.\n Pour the hot tea over the prunes with the orange peel and cinnamon stick.\n Leave covered overnight; keep in the fridge and use within a week.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Plump, lightly tannic breakfast prunes with no caffeine in them, which matters if children eat them."
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