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    "excerpt": "Twinings Lemon & Ginger is the warming half of the herbal shelf, 80 bags in a 120g box at 1.5g of dried botanicals per bag, with no tea leaf and no caffeine. Picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the cold-weather box.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. Water straight off the boil, five minutes covered, and longer does no harm: ginger is slow to give itself up, so a three-minute cup is lemon with a hint of ginger rather than the warming drink you bought. Two bags in one mug is the honest fix for real heat.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 Lemon & Ginger is the warming half of the herbal shelf: 80 bags in a 120g box, which is 1.5g of dried botanicals in every bag. No tea leaf, no caffeine, and nothing in the cup but heat and brightness. It is the box people reach for in cold weather and at the point in the evening when coffee is out of the question. It is worth noting the dose honestly: at 1.5g a bag this is a lighter fill than a peppermint or a rooibos, and that has a direct consequence for how you should brew it, which is covered below. The Taste Profile\n \nGinger heat: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) A dry, building warmth rather than a sharp spike. It arrives late in the mouthful and stays after the cup is down.\n \nLemon brightness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Clean and citrus, sitting on top of the ginger rather than mixed through it. It is the first thing you meet and the first thing to fade.\n \nBody: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb\u25cb (2/5) Light. There is no tea leaf here to give it weight, and at 1.5g a bag it wants the full steep to fill out.\n \nSweetness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Natural to the botanicals and more noticeable at five minutes than at two. A good cup rarely needs honey.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.4 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind The Box\nTwinings has traded as a London tea house since 1706, and its herbal range is a much later addition to a business built on black tea. Lemon and ginger is the line in it that sells on a cold day: a pairing old enough and obvious enough that every tea house in the country has a version of it. What is actually in the bag, in what proportions, and whether the lemon arrives as peel, as flavouring or as both, is declared on the carton in your hand rather than to us. What we can tell you comes off the pack format: 120g across 80 bags, 1.5g a bag, one bag a mug, 80 mugs. One thing we will not do is tell you what this drink does for you. Ginger and lemon have been taken hot in cold weather for a very long time and that is a matter of tradition rather than a claim we are making on the product's behalf. It is a warming, caffeine-free drink. That is enough. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. Our Commitment To The Planet\n The box that arrives is the current UK retail pack rather than a grey import. Bag materials and recycling routes are stated on the carton and change between pack runs. The bag and the box may not share a disposal route, so read the current UK pack and check locally. \n How Does Twinings Lemon & Ginger Compare to:\n Peppermint reads cooling and cleans the palate; this reads warming and lingers. Most households that drink herbals keep both boxes open. Twinings English Breakfast Decaffeinated, 80 Tea Bags 218g: the other way to have a hot drink late. That one still tastes like tea and keeps a trace of caffeine; this has none at all, and tastes of nothing like tea. Tetley Everyday Decaffeinated, 160 Tea Bags: twice the bags, for a household where the late drink needs to taste like an ordinary cup of tea rather than like an infusion.\n Ideal Brewing Conditions\nThis is the opposite problem to black tea. There is no tannin in the bag to turn harsh, so a long steep costs you nothing, while a short one leaves the ginger behind entirely. Ginger is the slowest thing in the bag to give itself up, and at 1.5g a bag there is not much of it to start with. The Mug\n \nWater: Straight off the boil at 100 degrees, into a mug of roughly 200 to 250ml. Both botanicals want full heat.\n \nTime: Five minutes, and longer does no harm. Three minutes gives you lemon with a hint of ginger; five gives you the warmth you paid for.\n \nCover: A saucer over the mug traps the citrus top note, which is volatile and leaves as steam faster than the ginger does.\n \nFinish: Drink it clear. No milk. A spoon of honey suits it if you want it, and a slice of fresh lemon sharpens it considerably.\n\n The Pot\n \nDose: Three bags for a 750ml pot, which is the same ratio as one bag in a mug.\n \nBrew: Water at the boil, lid on, five minutes or more. There is nothing to over-extract.\n \nHold: You can leave the bags in. Unlike a pot of black tea, this will not stew, and the ginger keeps building rather than turning bitter.\n\n Brewing Notes For Twinings Lemon & Ginger\n\nWater temperature: 100 degrees. A herbal infusion wants the water at a full boil, unlike a delicate green tea.\nMeasure: One bag per mug, 1.5g of botanicals, 80 mugs from the box. \nSteep: Five minutes covered, minimum. Ten is fine and gives a noticeably hotter, gingerier cup.\nTwo-bag mug: The honest fix if you want real ginger heat. At 1.5g a bag, two bags in one mug is closer to what most people picture when they think of a ginger drink.\nHoney and lemon: A spoon of honey stirred in hot and a slice of fresh lemon turn this into the traditional cold-weather cup. Neither is necessary, both are common.\nIced: Brew three bags in 300ml for eight minutes, cool, then pour over ice with lime and a splash of chilled ginger beer for a doubled-up spritz.\nCaffeine note: Naturally caffeine free. There is no tea leaf in the bag at all, so this is safe at any hour.\nBest with: Cold weather, after a heavy meal, or on its own last thing.\n Safety And Purity\n\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.\nNo health claims: We describe this as a warming, caffeine-free infusion with a long tradition behind it, and nothing more.\nCaffeine: None. This is a herbal infusion with no tea leaf in it, which is the one thing a decaffeinated black tea cannot offer.\n\nFreshness: Keep the box closed and dry. Citrus aromatics fade faster than ginger does, so an open box drifts towards being a plain ginger infusion over a few months.\nHot Liquid: Lifting a saturated bag out of a full mug drips near-boiling water. Use a spoon and keep the mug back from the edge of the table.",
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                "content": "Is it caffeine free?Yes, naturally and completely. There is no tea leaf in the bag, only dried botanicals, so there is nothing in it to be decaffeinated. That is the difference between this and a decaf black tea, which always keeps a small residual amount. How many mugs are in the box?80 bags, one bag a mug, so 80 mugs. The 120g pack weight across 80 bags is 1.5g of dried botanicals in each one, which is a lighter fill than a peppermint or a rooibos carries. Why five minutes and not three?Because ginger is the slowest thing in the bag to give itself up, and there is no tannin here to turn harsh, so a long steep costs you nothing. Three minutes gives you lemon with a hint of ginger. Five gives you the warming drink you bought, and ten does no damage at all. How do I get more ginger heat?Use two bags in one mug. That is the honest answer at a 1.5g fill: more botanical, not more time. A longer steep helps up to a point, but you cannot extract heat that is not in the bag to begin with. Does it do anything for a cold?Hot ginger and lemon has been drunk in cold weather for a very long time, and that is a matter of tradition rather than something we are asserting about the product. It is a warming, caffeine-free drink, and that is the whole of what we will say. Can I put milk in it?No, and it is not a matter of taste so much as chemistry: this is a clear infusion with citrus in it, and citrus curdles milk. Drink it clear, with honey or a slice of fresh lemon if you want to dress it up. Does it need honey?Brewed the full five minutes, usually not. There is a natural sweetness in the botanicals that comes out with a longer steep, and people who sweeten it heavily are often compensating for a three-minute cup. If you do want it, stir the honey in while it is still hot. Can I leave the bags in the pot?Yes, which is the useful difference between this and a pot of black tea. There is nothing to over-extract, so the pot will not stew. The ginger keeps building rather than turning bitter, and the last cup is often the best one. Does it work as an iced drink?Very well. Brew three bags in 300ml for eight minutes, cool, then pour over ice with lime and top with chilled ginger beer for a doubled-up spritz. It is one of the better caffeine-free mixers to have in the fridge in summer. How should I store it?Closed and dry, away from coffee and spices. Citrus aromatics fade faster than ginger does, so an open box drifts over a few months towards being a plain ginger infusion with the brightness gone off the top. Are the bags recyclable or compostable?The bag material and the carton instructions are printed on the current UK pack and change between pack runs, and the bag and the box may not share a disposal route. We have not assumed either, so read the pack and check your local authority's guidance."
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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: ginger root (37%), natural lemon flavouring, natural flavourings (25%), lemongrass, blackberry leaves, lemon peel (9%), sweet fennel, natural ginger flavouring, natural flavourings (3.5%).Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.IngredientProportionWhat it bringsGingerNot stated to usThe dry building warmth that arrives late in the mouthful and stays after the cup is down. It is the slowest component in the bag to give itself up, which is why the steep time matters here.LemonNot stated to usThe bright citrus top note that sits on the ginger rather than mixing through it. Whether it arrives as peel, as flavouring or as both is declared on the carton.Dose per bag1.5g120g across 80 bags. A lighter fill than a peppermint or a rooibos carries, which is why two bags in a mug is the honest route to real ginger heat.Caffeine0mgNaturally caffeine free, because there is no tea leaf in the bag to carry any. Not the same as a decaffeinated black tea, which always keeps a trace.Bag material and cartonNot stated to usBag material and recycling instructions are stated on the carton and may not share a disposal route. We have not assumed either.Pack: Twinings Lemon & Ginger, 80 Tea Bags 120g; GTIN 00070177270322; 80 tea bags in a 120g carton, 1.5g of dried botanicals each, 80 mugs per box. Naturally caffeine free. Best before the date printed on the carton.Characterising components shown; any unquantified botanical base makes up the remaining body. Ingredient percentages, the full declaration, nutrition figures, origins, certification marks, bag materials and the complete allergen statement belong to the current UK pack and we do not restate them here, having not read it. The 80-mug yield and the 1.5g dose per bag are arithmetic on the pack count and weight, not pack claims. No health claim of any kind is made for this product anywhere in this listing.Sourcing & blend. Twinings Lemon & Ginger, 80 Tea Bags 120g is put together by Twinings, the family tea house trading from London since 1706, whose herbal range is a much later addition to a business built on black tea. Lemon and ginger is the pairing every tea house in the country has a version of, and this is the Twinings one at household box size. The carton you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than a grey import.What is in Twinings Lemon & Ginger, 80 Tea Bags 120g, and what is not:In: a caffeine-free infusion of ginger and lemon, with nothing in the bag but the listed components and any infusion base.No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: the sweetness in a well brewed cup is natural to the botanicals and is more noticeable at five minutes than at two.No tea leaf and no caffeine: this is a herbal infusion rather than a tea, which is why it can be drunk at any hour without reservation.No health claim: we describe a warming, caffeine-free drink with a long tradition behind it, and nothing more."
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                "title": "Flavour Science",
                "content": "The flavour of Twinings Lemon & Ginger, 80 Tea Bags 120g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains why this cup changes so much between three minutes and five, and why so many people conclude it is a lemon drink with a rumour of ginger in it.The outer layer is citrus and it is the fastest-moving part of the cup. Lemon aromatics are small, light molecules that leave the liquid as steam almost immediately, which is why a freshly poured mug smells sharply of citrus and a mug that has sat for ten minutes smells of almost nothing. That is your drink leaving the room. A saucer over the mug for the first few minutes traps that vapour and lets it fall back, and it makes a larger difference here than with any black tea. It is also why an opened box drifts over a few months: the citrus fades faster than the ginger does, and an old box gradually turns into a plain ginger infusion.The flavour spike is ginger, and it works on an entirely different clock. The pungent compounds in dried ginger are heavier and less volatile, they dissolve slowly, and they register as heat rather than as taste, building through the mouthful and lingering after the cup is down. This is the single most important thing to understand about brewing it: at three minutes the fast citrus has arrived and the slow ginger has barely started, so you get a bright, thin, slightly disappointing cup. At five the ginger has caught up and the two sit in balance. At ten the ginger dominates, and since there is no tannin in the bag to turn bitter, nothing has been spoiled by waiting. There is also an honest limit here. At 1.5g a bag this is a lighter fill than a peppermint carries, and no amount of time will extract heat that is not in the bag. If you want a genuinely fiery cup, use two bags rather than twice the minutes.The base structure is a warm, dry, gently sweet finish with no astringency at all, because astringency comes from tea leaf and there is none here. The cup does not clean the palate the way peppermint does; it coats it and stays. That lingering warmth is the point, and it is why this box gets opened in cold weather and at the end of an evening rather than after a rich meal.Getting it right in the cup. One bag per 200 to 250ml of water straight off the boil at 100 degrees, five minutes with a saucer on top, and longer if you like it hotter. Drink it clear: milk has no business here, and citrus will curdle it in any case. Honey stirred in while it is hot and a slice of fresh lemon are the traditional additions, and a properly brewed cup usually needs neither. For a pot, three bags to 750ml holds the same ratio, and unlike a pot of black tea you can leave the bags in without spoiling the later cups; the last one is frequently the best. Cold brewed in the fridge for eight hours the same bags give a softer, sweeter drink with much less heat, which makes a good base for an iced spritz.How water and temperature change it. Both components want the water at a full rolling boil, which surprises people who have learned to treat delicate teas gently. Ginger in particular needs the heat to dissolve properly, and water at 80 degrees gives a flat, vaguely lemony cup that no extra time will rescue. Hard tap water mutes citrus badly, flattening the top note and leaving a chalky edge under the finish, so a filter jug helps here more than with a plain black tea; soft or filtered water lets the lemon ring clear against the ginger. As the mug cools, the citrus fades well before the warmth does, so a half-finished cup left on the desk reads as plain ginger water rather than as the drink you made."
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                "content": "Twinings Lemon & Ginger, 80 Tea Bags 120g delivers a deeper, more lingering warmth than fresh ginger juice does, and it is caffeine free, so it can go places a black tea cannot. Six builds below cover the warming mug, a hot toddy, a ginger beer spritz, a frozen lolly, a Moscow mule and a ginger poaching syrup.\nRecipes, born here first\n\n \n The Five Minute Warming Cup\n \n The everyday build, and the two extra minutes that turn a lemon drink into a ginger one.\n \n 6 min\n 1 mug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 or 2 lemon and ginger tea bags\n 200 to 250ml water at 100 degrees\n 1 teaspoon clear honey, optional\n A slice of fresh lemon\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Pour water straight off the boil onto the bag in the mug.\n Cover with a saucer and leave it five minutes, not three.\n Use two bags instead of one if you want real ginger heat; more leaf beats more time.\n Finish with a slice of fresh lemon, and honey only if you want it.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A warming, caffeine-free cup with the ginger arriving late and staying after the mug is down.\n\n \n Hot Toddy (Adult)\n \n The traditional cold-weather drink, built on an infusion rather than on hot water.\n \n 7 min\n 1 glass\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 lemon and ginger tea bags\n 200ml water at 100 degrees\n 1 tablespoon clear honey\n 25ml dark rum or whisky\n Half a lemon, juiced, plus a slice\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Brew two bags in 200ml for five minutes, covered.\n Stir in the honey and the lemon juice while it is still hot.\n Add the rum or whisky last, off the heat, so the spirit is not driven off.\n Garnish with a lemon slice studded with a clove.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A toddy with a proper ginger base under it rather than just hot water and spirit.\n\n \n Ginger Beer Spritz Mocktail\n \n Ginger doubled up, with no alcohol and no caffeine in it at all.\n \n 8 min + chill\n 1 tall glass\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 3 lemon and ginger tea bags\n 300ml water at 100 degrees\n Juice of half a lime\n 1 teaspoon brown sugar\n 100ml chilled ginger beer\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Brew three bags in 300ml for eight minutes, covered, then cool.\n Dissolve the sugar in a splash of the warm infusion before chilling.\n Pour over a tall glass of ice with the lime juice.\n Top with chilled ginger beer and garnish with a lime wheel.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A long, sharp, doubled-ginger cooler that everybody at the table can drink, including the driver and the children.\n\n \n Frozen Lemon Ginger Lollies\n \n Three tea bags and a lolly mould, and nothing in them that will keep a child awake.\n \n 10 min + freeze\n 6 lollies\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 3 lemon and ginger tea bags\n 250ml water at 100 degrees\n 2 tablespoons clear honey\n Juice of 1 lemon\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Brew three bags in 250ml for eight minutes, covered, deliberately strong.\n Stir in the honey and the lemon juice while warm, then take the bags out.\n Cool completely before it goes near the moulds.\n Pour into six lolly moulds, push in the sticks and freeze.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Sharp, faintly warming lollies. The ginger comes through subtly once frozen, so older children who like a bit of spice take to them more readily than small ones.\n\n \n Moscow Mule (Adult Cocktail)\n \n The infusion stands in for the sugar syrup, so the drink is drier than the usual build.\n \n 8 min + chill\n 1 copper mug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 lemon and ginger tea bags\n 200ml water at 100 degrees\n 50ml vodka\n Juice of half a lime\n 100ml cold ginger beer\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Brew two bags in 200ml for six minutes, then cool completely.\n Fill a copper mug with ice and add the vodka and lime juice.\n Pour in 60ml of the cooled infusion.\n Top with cold ginger beer and garnish with lime and mint.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A drier, more aromatic mule than the standard build gives.\n\n \n Ginger Poaching Syrup For Pears\n \n Four tea bags stand in for a whole root of ginger and a lemon, with no chopping.\n \n 30 min\n 4 servings\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 4 lemon and ginger tea bags\n 600ml water at 100 degrees\n 120g caster sugar\n \u20224 firm pears, peeled\n \u20221 cinnamon stick\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Brew four bags in 600ml for ten minutes, very strong, then remove them.\n Dissolve the sugar in the hot infusion with the cinnamon stick.\n Poach the pears gently for twenty to twenty-five minutes until tender.\n Reduce the liquid by half over a higher heat and pour it back over the fruit.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Pears in a warm, citrus-sharp ginger syrup. Good hot with cream in winter or cold with yoghurt the next morning."
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