{
    "id": 1074665,
    "title": "Twinings Jasmine Green Tea, 80 Tea Bags",
    "slug": "twinings-jasmine-green-tea-80-tea-bags",
    "type": "product",
    "url": "https://teas.co.uk/product/twinings-jasmine-green-tea-80-tea-bags/",
    "modified": "2026-09-25T23:30:50+01:00",
    "excerpt": "Twinings Jasmine Green Tea is the soft, floral green that most people find easier to drink than a plain one, here in the eighty-bag household box, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection because the big box halves the running cost.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. Brew at 80 degrees rather than boiling and lift the bag out at two minutes, because overheated water is the whole reason green tea gets a reputation for bitterness. Drink it clear.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.",
    "content_text": "Twinings Jasmine Green Tea in the eighty-bag box is the household size of a tea most people first buy twenty bags at a time. That distinction matters more than it sounds, because jasmine green is one of the few flavoured teas that people who like it drink every day rather than occasionally, and the small box runs out fast. Jasmine green is green tea carrying jasmine. The flower is not a decoration on top of the leaf; it is the reason the cup reads soft and floral instead of grassy and sharp, and it is what makes this the gentlest introduction to green tea on the shelf. Green tea without it is an acquired taste for a lot of British drinkers. With it, most people get on with it immediately. Same tea, same brand, roughly half the price per cup for buying the bigger box, and that is the single strongest argument for this listing existing. The Taste Profile\n\nJasmine: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Soft, sweet and floral rather than perfumed or soapy. It leads the aroma completely and carries most of the way through the cup.\nGreen tea base: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Light and clean underneath. The base is there to give the flower something to sit on rather than to dominate, which is why this reads easier than a plain green.\nAstringency: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb\u25cb (2/5) Low at the right temperature. The dryness people associate with green tea comes almost entirely from overheated water rather than from the leaf.\nClean Finish: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Short and tidy, with the jasmine lingering in the nose after the liquid has gone. It does not coat the palate the way a black tea does.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.7 / 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 it is the most widely stocked tea brand in Britain by some distance. Jasmine green sits in the everyday part of its range rather than the specialist part, which is exactly why it works as a household box: it is made to be consistent from box to box rather than to vary interestingly. That means the net weight of the eighty-bag box, the bag material, the full ingredient declaration, whether the jasmine appears as flowers or as flavouring, the certification marks and the best-before window all have to come off the carton rather than from this page. For reference, the twenty-bag box of the same tea on our shelf is 40g, which is 2g a bag, but we are not going to present the arithmetic on that as a fact about a box we have not weighed. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. What You Are Actually Buying \nCount: eighty bags, which is four times the standard Twinings green tea box and the reason this is a cupboard purchase rather than a trial.\n\nTemperature: 80\u00b0C, not boiling. This is the one thing that separates a soft floral cup from a dry, bitter one, and it is the reason most people think they dislike green tea.\nDrink it clear: no milk. The jasmine and the green base both disappear under it, and there is not enough tannin here for milk to soften anything.\nWhat it is not: not a plain green tea. If you want the unscented cup, Twinings Pure Green is the box for that and this is not it.\n How Does Twinings Jasmine Green Tea, 80 Tea Bags Compare to: \n\nTwinings Pure Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 50g: the unscented version from the same house. Cleaner and more vegetal, and noticeably less forgiving of water that is too hot. This jasmine box is the easier daily drink of the two.\n\n Ideal Brewing Conditions Green tea has one rule and jasmine green has one and a half. The first is temperature. The second is that jasmine is volatile, so it leaves the cup faster than the tea does, which means a covered brew and a reasonably prompt drink both make a visible difference. The Standard Mug\n\nMeasure: one bag in a mug of 200 to 250ml.\nWater: 80 degrees Celsius. Boil the kettle, take the lid off and leave it two minutes, or pour a splash of cold water into the mug first. Boiling water scalds green leaf and the cup turns dry and bitter in seconds.\nSteep: two minutes, three at the outside. Green tea gets worse rather than stronger past that point.\nCover: a saucer over the mug for the first minute keeps the jasmine in the liquid instead of losing it to the steam.\n The Glass Pot\n\nMeasure: two bags for a 500ml pot rather than three. Jasmine green scales down, not up.\nSteep: two minutes with the lid on, then lift the bags out rather than leaving them in as the pot sits.\nServe: in glass if you have it. The liquor is a pale yellow-green and half the pleasure of this tea is looking at it.\n Brewing The Perfect Cup of Twinings Jasmine Green Tea, 80 Tea Bags\n\nWater temperature: 80\u00b0C. Everything else on this list matters less than this one line.\nMeasure: one bag per 200 to 250ml.\nSteep: 2 minutes, covered. Take the bag out; do not let it sit.\nService: clear, no milk, no sugar. A thin slice of lemon works if you want it sharper.\nIced version: brew 3 bags in 300ml at 80\u00b0C for 2 minutes, cool, then top with cold water and pour over ice. Brewing strong and diluting cold keeps the jasmine intact; brewing hot and leaving it to go cold does not.\n\nBest with: steamed or fried rice dishes, dim sum, plain shortbread, and the middle of the afternoon.\n Safety And Purity\n\nIngredients and dietary suitability: Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.\n\nCaffeine: this is an ordinary caffeinated green tea. If you are avoiding caffeine, a decaffeinated green or a herbal infusion is the right answer and this is not.",
    "purchase_intent_url": "https://teas.co.uk/buy/twinings-jasmine-green-tea-80-tea-bags/",
    "purchase_intent_policy": "Human-confirmed purchase intent only. Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe, or open autonomously.",
    "payment_methods": [
        "apple_pay",
        "google_pay",
        "paypal",
        "klarna",
        "card"
    ],
    "free_uk_delivery_over_gbp": 35,
    "product": {
        "sku": "twinings-jasmine-green-tea-80-tea-bags",
        "price_gbp": 8,
        "regular_price": 10,
        "servings": 80,
        "serving_unit": "cup",
        "price_per_cup": 0.1,
        "price_per_cup_gbp": 0.1,
        "price_per_cup_pence": 10,
        "caffeine": "Caffeinated",
        "brew_temp": "75-80C",
        "brew_time": "1-2 min",
        "gtin": "070177074869",
        "tea_family": "green",
        "on_sale": true,
        "stock_status": "instock",
        "brand": [
            "Twinings"
        ],
        "categories": [
            "Everyday Tea Bags",
            "Green Tea"
        ],
        "urls": {
            "canonical": "https://teas.co.uk/product/twinings-jasmine-green-tea-80-tea-bags/",
            "purchase_intent": "https://teas.co.uk/buy/twinings-jasmine-green-tea-80-tea-bags/",
            "markdown": "https://teas.co.uk/product/twinings-jasmine-green-tea-80-tea-bags.md"
        },
        "tabs": [
            {
                "title": "Product Questions",
                "content": "What makes jasmine green tea different from plain green tea?The jasmine. It sits over the green base and turns what many British drinkers find grassy and sharp into something soft and floral. That is why jasmine green is the usual way in for people who have tried a plain green tea and not got on with it. What temperature should I brew it at?80 degrees Celsius, not boiling. Boil the kettle, take the lid off and leave it two minutes, or put a splash of cold water in the mug before you pour. Water straight off the boil scalds green leaf and the cup goes dry and bitter within seconds; this single line matters more than everything else on this page. How long do I steep it for?Two minutes, three at the outside, then take the bag out. Green tea does not get stronger past that point so much as it gets harsher, and leaving the bag in while you drink is the second most common mistake after boiling water. Can I put milk in it?You can, but it is a waste of the tea. Both the jasmine and the light green base disappear underneath milk, and there is not enough tannin in a green tea for milk to soften anything. Drink it clear; a thin slice of lemon is the only addition worth making. How much caffeine is in it?It is a caffeinated tea, and a green tea generally gives less caffeine per cup than a black tea made from the same weight of leaf. Is the jasmine real flowers or a flavouring?That is declared on the carton, and the two are declared differently. The ingredient list on the box answers it in one line. What does the box weigh?For reference, the twenty-bag box of the same tea on our shelf is 40g, which is 2g a bag, but we are not presenting arithmetic from one box as a fact about another. Does it make good iced tea?It makes one of the best. Brew three bags in 300ml at 80\u00b0C for two minutes, cool, then top with cold water and pour over ice. Brew strong and dilute cold rather than making a normal cup and leaving it to go cold, which loses most of the jasmine to the air. What food does it go with?It is the classic partner for dim sum and for steamed or fried rice dishes, because a light floral tea cuts through salt and oil without competing with the food. Plain shortbread works too. It does not suit a fry-up or anything heavily spiced. How should I store the box once it is open?Sealed, cool, dark and away from anything strongly scented. Jasmine is volatile and works in both directions: the box will lose aroma to the air and will pick up the smell of a spice jar or a coffee tin sitting next to it. An eighty-bag box lasts a while, so this matters more here than on a twenty. Can I get a second cup out of the bag?Not really. A single-serve bag is milled fine and gives up most of what it has in the first two minutes, so a second steep is thin and mostly jasmine-free. Whole-leaf jasmine green in a pot resteeps properly; a bag does not."
            },
            {
                "title": "Ingredients & Nutrition",
                "content": "IngredientProportionWhat it bringsGreen teaSee current packThe base of the cup. Light and clean rather than dominant, which is what gives the jasmine somewhere to sit and keeps the tea easy to drink daily.JasmineSee current packThe lead note, and the reason this cup reads soft and floral instead of grassy. Volatile, so it is the first thing to reach the nose and the first thing lost to an uncovered mug.Pack: Twinings Jasmine Green Tea, 80 Tea Bags; a caffeinated green tea with jasmine. The net weight and the best-before date are printed on the current UK pack.Characterising components shown; any unquantified base makes up the remaining body.Sourcing & blend. Twinings Jasmine Green Tea, 80 Tea Bags is put together by Twinings, the family tea house trading from London since 1706. Jasmine green sits in the everyday part of the Twinings range rather than the specialist part, and that is the point of it: a box bought for consistency cup after cup rather than for variation between harvests.What's in Twinings Jasmine Green Tea, 80 Tea Bags, and what isn't:In: green tea carrying jasmine, in eighty single-serve bags, with nothing in the bag but the listed components.No milk: this is a light green tea with very little tannin in it. Milk buries both the jasmine and the base and there is nothing here for it to soften."
            },
            {
                "title": "Flavour Science",
                "content": "The flavour of Twinings Jasmine Green Tea, 80 Tea Bags 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 with a jasmine green it is the layer most people actually buy the tea for: a sweet, soft floral lift that reaches the nose before the liquid touches the tongue. Jasmine compounds are highly volatile, which is both the pleasure and the problem. They leave the leaf the moment hot water hits the bag, and they keep leaving, which is why an uncovered mug smells wonderful across the kitchen and tastes noticeably plainer than a covered one. A saucer over the mug for the first minute is not a flourish; it is the difference between drinking the jasmine and merely smelling it.The flavour spike arrives mid-palate and is deliberately restrained. The green base carries a clean, faintly vegetal sweetness that gives the flower something to rest on, and the two read as one thing rather than as a tea with something added to it. This is where water temperature decides the cup: at around 80 degrees the catechins in green leaf stay politely in the background, and above about 90 they come forward fast and turn the middle of the cup dry and bitter. The same bag, the same time, twenty degrees apart, produces two teas most people would not identify as the same product.The base structure is the lingering finish: short, clean and slightly sweet, with the jasmine hanging in the nose after the liquid has gone. A green tea finish does not coat the palate the way a black tea does, which is why this works alongside food that a stronger tea would bulldoze. A well made cup should fade rather than stop, and should leave you wanting the next mouthful rather than reaching for water.Getting it right in the cup. Use one bag per 200 to 250ml at 80 degrees and steep for two minutes, three at the absolute outside, then lift the bag out; over-steeping is the most common reason this blend tastes harsh, because green leaf gives up its astringent compounds quickly once the pleasant ones have gone. Keep the mug covered for the first minute to trap the jasmine in the liquid rather than losing it to the steam. Cold brewed in the fridge for six to eight hours the same bag behaves quite differently: almost no astringency at all, a rounder sweetness and the jasmine intact, which makes cold brew the most forgiving way to drink it. Stored sealed somewhere cool, dark and away from anything strongly scented the box holds its character well, but jasmine works in both directions and a box kept beside coffee or spices will take on their smell.How water and temperature change it. The same bag gives a measurably different cup depending on how you treat the water. Hotter water and a longer steep pull the heavier, more astringent compounds forward for a drier, sharper result that buries the flower; cooler water or a shorter steep keeps the jasmine and the sweetness in front and the body light. Hard tap water is unkind to this tea in particular, because it mutes delicate florals more than it mutes malt or spice, so in a hard water area filtered water buys you more here than a longer steep ever will. 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."
            },
            {
                "title": "Recipe Ideas",
                "content": "Twinings Jasmine Green Tea, 80 Tea Bags is a light floral tea, so every build below protects the jasmine rather than covering it. Five builds: the proper mug, a glass pot, a cold-brew jug, a jasmine lemonade and a poaching liquor for fruit.\nRecipes, born here first\n\n \n The Proper Mug\n \n How to make The Proper Mug with Twinings Jasmine Green Tea.\n \n 3 min\n 1 mug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 bag Twinings Jasmine Green Tea\n 250ml water at about 80\u00b0C\n A saucer to cover the mug\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Boil the kettle, then leave it two minutes with the lid off so the water drops to about 80\u00b0C.\n Pour 250ml over one bag of Twinings Jasmine Green Tea, 80 Tea Bags.\n Cover the mug with a saucer for the first minute to keep the jasmine in the liquid.\n Lift the bag out at two minutes and drink it clear.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A pale yellow-green cup, soft and floral with no dryness in it. If it tastes bitter, the water was too hot, not the tea too strong.\n\n \n The Glass Pot for Two\n \n How to make The Glass Pot for Two with Twinings Jasmine Green Tea.\n \n 3 min\n 2 cups\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 bags Twinings Jasmine Green Tea\n 500ml water at about 80\u00b0C\n A glass pot and small glass cups\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Warm the pot with a little hot water and pour it away, so the brew does not lose heat to cold glass.\n Steep 2 bags in 500ml at 80\u00b0C for two minutes with the lid on. Two bags, not three.\n Lift both bags out before you pour the first cup rather than leaving them in the pot.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Two clear pale cups that stay pleasant to the bottom of the pot. Jasmine green scales down rather than up, so resist adding the third bag.\n\n \n Cold Brew Jasmine Jug\n \n How to make a Cold Brew Jasmine Jug with Twinings Jasmine Green Tea.\n \n 5 min + overnight\n 1 litre\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 4 bags Twinings Jasmine Green Tea\n 1 litre cold water\n Ice to serve\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Drop 4 bags into a litre jug of cold water, cover and refrigerate for six to eight hours.\n Lift the bags out in the morning; leaving them in all day does add bitterness eventually.\n Serve over ice, clear, with nothing added.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: The most forgiving way to drink this tea. Cold water extracts almost no astringency, so the jasmine and the sweetness come through with nothing sharp behind them.\n\n \n Jasmine Lemonade\n \n How to make Jasmine Lemonade with Twinings Jasmine Green Tea.\n \n 8 min + chill\n 1 jug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 3 bags Twinings Jasmine Green Tea\n 300ml water at about 80\u00b0C, plus 500ml cold\n The juice of 2 lemons\n 2 tablespoons honey or sugar syrup\n Ice\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Steep 3 bags in 300ml at 80\u00b0C for two minutes, then remove the bags and stir in the honey while the tea is still warm.\n Cool, then add the lemon juice and 500ml of cold water.\n Chill and serve over ice with a lemon wheel.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Sharper and more interesting than shop lemonade, because the jasmine sits behind the citrus instead of under sugar. Add the lemon cold, never to hot tea.\n\n \n Jasmine Poached Pears\n \n How to make Jasmine Poached Pears with Twinings Jasmine Green Tea.\n \n 30 min\n 4 pears\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 4 bags Twinings Jasmine Green Tea\n 4 firm pears, peeled\n 100g caster sugar\n A strip of lemon peel\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Steep 4 bags in 700ml of water at 80\u00b0C for three minutes, then lift the bags out.\n Dissolve the sugar in the warm tea with the lemon peel.\n Poach the peeled pears in the liquid at a bare simmer for 20 to 25 minutes until a knife slides in.\n Cool the pears in the liquor so they take up the jasmine as they sit.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Pale, faintly floral pears that taste of more than sugar syrup. The eighty-bag box is what makes it reasonable to use four bags on a pudding."
            }
        ]
    },
    "contentSignals": "ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes",
    "links": {
        "apiCatalog": "https://teas.co.uk/.well-known/api-catalog",
        "llmsTxt": "https://teas.co.uk/llms.txt",
        "mcpCard": "https://teas.co.uk/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json",
        "primaryAgenticRouteAuthority": "https://teas.co.uk/.well-known/teas-primary-agentic-route-authority.json"
    }
}