Twinings Green Tea 80, 200g
Everything people dislike about green tea comes out of the kettle, not the bag. Pour at a rolling boil and you get ninety seconds of bitter grass. Wait two or three minutes after the kettle clicks, pour at around eighty, and the same bag gives you something clean and faintly sweet. Two minutes, three at the outside, no milk. If you keep getting it wrong, put four bags in a litre of cold water overnight in the fridge instead; that version cannot be ruined. Buy it because you want plain green tea in a mug, not for anything you have read about what it does to you.
Twinings Green Tea 80, in brief.
Twinings Green Tea is the plain unflavoured green tea from the London tea house, 80 bags in a 200g box at 2.5g of leaf each, picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the reliable everyday green rather than a flavoured one.
The one thing that decides whether you enjoy it is water temperature: pour at around 80 degrees rather than at a rolling boil and the bitterness people complain about simply does not appear.
Twinings Green Tea is the plain, unflavoured green tea that most British households actually keep, as opposed to the jasmine, mint and lemon versions that crowd the same shelf. Nothing is added to it: no flower petals, no fruit pieces, no flavouring.
That plainness is the reason to buy it and also the reason people give up on green tea. There is nothing in the bag to hide behind, so the one thing that matters is water temperature. Poured at a full boil this tea turns bitter and grassy within ninety seconds. Poured at around 80 degrees it is clean, faintly sweet and vegetal, and the whole complaint disappears.
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 the Twinings
Twinings has traded as a family tea house from the Strand in London since 1706, and its plain green tea is one of the lines that quietly does the most work: it is the bag people reach for when they want green tea rather than a green-tea-flavoured drink. The house buys against a fixed quality and purity specification rather than from a single named garden, then blends and taste tests through each batch so the cup stays consistent.
Green tea is unoxidised, which is the whole difference between this bag and a breakfast tea. After picking, the leaf is heated quickly to stop the enzymes that would otherwise turn it dark, then rolled and dried. Everything green tea is prized for and everything it is fussy about follows from that single step: the fresh vegetal character survives, but so do compounds that turn harsh under boiling water.
The exact origin statement, the processing style and any certification marks are printed on the current UK pack and change from time to time, so we do not restate them here. What is worth knowing is that this is a blend rather than a single-garden tea, and that it is built for consistency in a mug rather than for the kind of careful small-pot brewing a loose leaf green would reward.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our Commitment To The Planet
- An 80-bag box carries a quarter of the packaging per cup that four 20-bag boxes would, which is the simplest saving available on a tea you drink daily.
- Bag material and any compostability claim are printed on the current UK pack; card, inner film and used bags take different disposal routes, so follow the pack and your local-authority guidance.
- Green tea takes cooler water than black tea, so a kettle brought to 80 degrees rather than a full boil uses slightly less energy over a year of daily cups.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Twinings Green Tea 80, 200g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Twinings
Twinings has been blending tea on London's Strand since 1706, the same address, three centuries later. Holders of the royal warrant for tea since 1837, they're the brand most-associated with Earl Grey, English Breakfast, and the polished afternoon-tea aesthetic. Wide flavoured-tea range; ethical sourcing through the Twinings Community Needs Assessment programme.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
The taste profile
How does it compare
Everything about brewing this tea comes down to one number, and it is not the steep time. Green tea wants water at around 80 degrees Celsius rather than at a rolling boil, and getting that right converts the cup from bitter and grassy to clean and faintly sweet. There is no trick in the bag that compensates for pouring at 100.
The Everyday Green Mug
The Cold Brew Jug
Made with this tea
The 80 Degree Mug
How to make green tea without the bitterness, with Twinings Green Tea.
- 1 bag Twinings Green Tea
- 200ml water at about 80°C
- Lemon, optional
- Boil the kettle, then wait 2 to 3 minutes so the water drops to roughly 80°C.
- Pour 200ml over one bag and steep for 2 minutes.
- Lift the bag out without squeezing it; the fines from squeezing are the harshest part.
- Drink it clear, or add a slice of lemon. No milk.
What you'll end up with: Clean and faintly sweet instead of bitter and grassy, which is the whole difference.
Overnight Cold Brew Jug
How to cold brew Twinings Green Tea.
- 4 bags Twinings Green Tea
- 1 litre cold water
- A covered jug
- Drop 4 bags into a 1 litre jug of cold water.
- Refrigerate for 6 to 8 hours, covered.
- Lift the bags out and keep the jug covered in the fridge for up to 2 days.
- There is no heating step at all, which is what makes this method impossible to get wrong.
What you'll end up with: Sweeter and rounder than the hot version, with almost none of the drying grip.
Iced Green Lemonade
How to make a green tea lemonade with Twinings Green Tea.
- 4 bags Twinings Green Tea
- 700ml cold water
- 3 lemons
- 3 tablespoons honey
- Plenty of ice
- Cold brew 4 bags in 700ml of cold water for 6 hours, then lift the bags out.
- Warm 3 tablespoons of honey with a splash of water until it loosens, then cool it.
- Stir the honey syrup and the juice of 3 lemons into the tea.
- Serve over plenty of ice with lemon wheels.
What you'll end up with: Sharper and cleaner than a shop-bought green iced tea, and without the sugar load.
Green Tea Poached Salmon
How to poach fish in Twinings Green Tea.
- 3 bags Twinings Green Tea
- 700ml water at about 80°C
- 2 slices ginger
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 salmon fillets
- Steep 3 bags in 700ml of water at about 80°C for 3 minutes, then lift the bags out.
- Add 2 slices of ginger and 1 teaspoon of salt to the liquor.
- Slide in 2 salmon fillets and hold the pan just below a simmer for 8 to 10 minutes.
- Lift the fish out and serve warm or cold.
What you'll end up with: A clean vegetal note through the fish that a court bouillon does not give you.
Green Tea Rice
How to cook rice in Twinings Green Tea.
- 2 bags Twinings Green Tea
- 500ml water at about 80°C
- 250g short grain rice
- Salt
- Steep 2 bags in 500ml of water at about 80°C for 3 minutes, then lift the bags out.
- Rinse 250g of short grain rice until the water runs clear.
- Cook the rice in the tea with a pinch of salt as you normally would.
- Fork it through and serve with fish or pickles.
What you'll end up with: A pale green tint and a faint savoury note, which suits a plain fish supper.
Green Tea Granita
How to make a granita with Twinings Green Tea.
- 5 bags Twinings Green Tea
- 600ml cold water
- 80g caster sugar
- 1 lime
- Cold brew 5 bags in 600ml of cold water for 8 hours, then lift the bags out.
- Dissolve 80g of caster sugar in a little warm water, cool it, and stir it in with the juice of 1 lime.
- Freeze in a shallow tray, raking with a fork every 30 minutes for about 3 hours.
- Serve in chilled glasses.
What you'll end up with: A clean palate cleanser between courses, and a use for a box that is nearing its date.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Green tea | 100% | The only ingredient. Unoxidised leaf, heated soon after picking to keep its fresh vegetal character. |
| Added flavourings | none | There are none, and no fruit pieces or flower petals either. This is the plain version rather than a jasmine or lemon green. |
Pack: Twinings Green Tea 80, 200g; 2.5g of leaf per bag, 80 bags per carton, caffeinated green tea. Best-before date is printed on the pack.
Single-ingredient product, so the proportion column is simple. Leaf weight per bag is calculated from the declared pack weight and bag count rather than read off the box, and is a close figure rather than an exact one.
Sourcing & blend. Twinings Green Tea 80, 200g is put together by Twinings, the family tea house trading from London since 1706. Components are bought against a fixed quality and purity specification rather than from one named garden, then blended and taste tested through each batch so the cup stays consistent box to box. Green tea is unoxidised, so the leaf is heated soon after picking to stop the enzymes that would otherwise darken it, then rolled and dried.
What's in Twinings Green Tea 80, 200g, and what isn't:
- In: green tea leaf and nothing else, dosed at 2.5g per bag.
- No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: and no fruit pieces or flower petals; any sweetness is natural to the leaf.
- Bag and packaging: card carton; bag material and any compostability claim are printed on the current UK pack and should be read off the box you have.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Twinings Green Tea 80, 200g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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