# Twinings Strong English Breakfast 120 Plant-Based, 375g ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £8.40 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/twinings-strong-english-breakfast-120-plant-based-375g/` _Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe or autonomously open this URL. It is only for explicit human purchase intent._ --- **Canonical URL:** https://teas.co.uk/product/twinings-strong-english-breakfast-120-plant-based-375g/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Twinings **Price:** £8.40 GBP **Caffeine:** Caffeinated **GTIN:** 070177231286 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Twinings Strong English Breakfast 120 Plant-Based is the heavier-dosed breakfast blend in the plant-based bag, 120 bags in a 375g carton at roughly 3.1g of leaf each, picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the strong everyday tea for households that care what the bag is made of.Ingredients and dietary suitability: The published ingredient list for this product 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. Plant-based is a pack-level statement, and it is not automatically the same as home compostable, so read the box.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. ## Description Twinings Strong English Breakfast 120 Plant-Based answers two complaints at once. The blend is the heavier-dosed breakfast tea, 375g across 120 bags at roughly 3.1g of leaf each, so it keeps its colour and its grip after milk goes in. The bags are plant-based, which is the detail printed on the pack and the reason a lot of households moved to this box rather than the standard one. The 120-bag size is the sensible middle. For a household that drinks strong tea daily and would rather not think about the bag material, this is the box to keep in the cupboard. The Taste Profile Malt and depth: ●●●●● (5/5) The same dark bready malt the strong blend is built on, unchanged by the bag. Briskness: ●●●●○ (4/5) A clean dry snap on the swallow that keeps the cup from reading heavy. Colour: ●●●●● (5/5) Deep copper-red inside three minutes, which is what the larger leaf dose buys. Clarity: ●●●●○ (4/5) The plant-based mesh sheds less dust than a paper bag, so the liquor runs clear. 4.6 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind the Twinings Twinings has traded as a family tea house from the Strand in London since 1706, and the Strong English Breakfast blend is a separate recipe rather than the standard one in a bigger bag. It is built around brisker, quicker-releasing leaf and dosed at roughly 3.1g a bag, which is where the colour and the milk tolerance come from. Components are bought against a fixed quality and purity specification and tasted through each batch so the cup holds steady box to box. The plant-based bag is the part this pack is named for. Tea bags were sealed with a small amount of plastic for decades, which is what stopped used bags from composting cleanly, and the industry has been working through alternatives for years. A plant-based bag changes how the pack should be disposed of, and sometimes how the tea brews, because mesh and paper release at slightly different rates. The exact bag material, whether it is home or industrially compostable, the origin statement and any certification marks are printed on the current UK pack and change from time to time, so we do not restate them here. Plant-based is not automatically the same as home compostable, and that distinction is worth reading off the box before you put a used bag on a garden heap. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. Our Commitment To The Planet The pack is named for its plant-based bags, which is a pack-level statement rather than our claim; read the current UK box for the exact material and the disposal route it allows. A 120-bag carton carries a third less packaging per cup than three 40-bag boxes would, so the format helps as much as the bag material does. Plant-based is not automatically home compostable. Card carton, inner film and used bags can each take a different route, so follow the pack and your local-authority guidance rather than assuming. How Does Twinings Strong English Breakfast 120 Plant-Based, 375g Compare to: PG Tips Original: PG Tips brews faster and lighter and suits a quick mug. The Twinings strong blend carries more leaf and more depth and wants the full four minutes, which is a different habit rather than a better one. Ideal Brewing Conditions A plant-based mesh behaves slightly differently from a paper bag: it lets water through more freely, so the colour arrives quickly, but the heavier malt still needs time. Water straight off the boil, a covered mug and four minutes is the recipe. Judging by colour alone will have you lifting the bag out early. The Everyday Mug Measure:One bag in a 250 to 300ml mug. At roughly 3.1g of leaf the bag is a full mug dose. Water:Freshly boiled at 100 degrees Celsius. A strong blend shows tired water on the finish. Steep:Four minutes covered. The mesh colours up fast, so do not judge by eye at two minutes. Finish:A generous splash of milk. It holds its depth through more milk than most blends. The Pot for Four Measure:Four bags in a warmed 1 litre pot, one per person, and none for the pot. Water:Fill straight from the kettle at a rolling boil and put the lid on immediately. Steep:Four minutes, then lift every bag out together before the first cup is poured. Hold:A cosy keeps it drinkable for about twenty minutes; beyond that, brew a fresh pot. Brewing The Perfect Cup of Twinings Strong English Breakfast 120 Plant-Based, 375g Water temperature: 100°C. Black tea of this grade needs a full boil to open properly. Measure: One bag per 250ml, dosed at roughly 3.1g of leaf. A second bag is for builders only. Steep: Four minutes covered, five if you take a lot of milk. Milk: Add after brewing so you control the colour. This blend takes more milk than most. Iced version: Brew three bags strong in 400ml, cool, pour over ice with lemon rather than milk. Caffeine note: A caffeinated black tea, so it belongs to the morning and afternoon rather than bedtime. Best with: Buttered toast, a bacon sandwich, fruit cake, strong cheddar. Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: The published ingredient list for this product names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. Clean label:Black tea leaf only. No added flavourings, colours, preservatives or sugar. Disposal note:Plant-based is not automatically home compostable. Read the current UK pack for the exact bag material and the disposal route it allows before adding used bags to a garden heap. Storage:Keep the carton closed in a cool dry cupboard away from coffee and spices, or decant into an airtight caddy. A 120-bag box will be open for weeks. ## Product Questions Can I put the used bags on the compost heap?Read the box first. Plant-based is not automatically home compostable: some materials need industrial composting and some go to food waste collection. Card carton, inner film and used bags can each take a different route.Is the tea itself different from the standard Twinings blend?Yes, but not because of the bag. Strong English Breakfast is a separate blend built around brisker leaf and dosed at roughly 3.1g a bag against the 2.5g in a standard everyday bag. That is where the colour and the milk tolerance come from.How long should I brew it?Four minutes in a covered mug of just-boiled water, five if you take a lot of milk. The mesh colours up quickly, so judging by eye will have you lifting the bag out early and getting a thinner cup than the blend can give.Should I buy this or the 80-bag box?This one, on the numbers, unless 120 bags is more tea than your household gets through before the flavour starts to fade. It is half again as much tea for less than the 80-bag box costs.Does it stand up to milk?That is what the blend exists for. The extra leaf and the brisk character mean the cup keeps its depth and colour with a generous splash, where a lighter breakfast tea goes pale.Does the mesh bag change how it brews?A little. Mesh lets water through more freely than paper, so colour arrives faster and the liquor runs clearer with less dust. The heavier malt compounds still take the full four minutes to come out.Can I re-use the bag for a second cup?Not usefully. The leaf is cut for a fast complete release in one brew, so a second cup off the same bag comes out thin and papery.Can I make it iced?Yes. Brew three bags strong in 400ml, cool, then pour over plenty of ice with lemon and a little sugar rather than milk. A strong black blend makes much better iced tea than a delicate one.Where does the tea come from?It is a blend rather than a single-garden tea, which is how a house tea stays the same cup year after year. The exact origin statement is printed on the current pack.How should I store a carton this size?Close it properly after every use and keep it in a cool dry cupboard away from coffee and spices, or decant into an airtight caddy. Tea fades in aroma long before it tastes wrong, and an open carton fades faster. ## Ingredients & Nutrition Ingredients and allergens. The published ingredient list for this product names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.IngredientProportionWhat it bringsBlack tea100%The only ingredient. A blend of brisk, quick-releasing black leaf chosen for colour and malt depth rather than delicacy.Added flavouringsnoneThere are none. Nothing is sprayed on or blended in.Pack: Twinings Strong English Breakfast 120 Plant-Based, 375g; roughly 3.1g of leaf per bag, 120 bags per carton, caffeinated black tea in a plant-based bag. 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 Strong English Breakfast 120 Plant-Based, 375g 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. The Strong blend is dosed heavier than the standard everyday bag, and this pack puts that blend into a plant-based bag as stated on the carton.What's in Twinings Strong English Breakfast 120 Plant-Based, 375g, and what isn't:In: black tea leaf and nothing else, dosed at roughly 3.1g per bag.No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: the malt and the briskness are the leaf.Plant-based bag: stated on the pack; the exact material and whether it is home or industrially compostable must be read off the current UK carton. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Twinings Strong English Breakfast 120 Plant-Based, 375g 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: a dry, bready malt lift that comes off the mug in the first thirty seconds. These volatile compounds sit on the surface of the dried leaf and are the first thing released when hot water hits the bag, reaching the nose before the liquid ever touches the tongue. A plant-based mesh is more open than a paper bag, so this layer arrives a little faster here than it would from the same blend in a paper envelope.The flavour spike arrives mid palate, where the malt carries the weight and the briskness cuts across it. The larger leaf dose in this blend, a little over 3g a bag, is what makes that middle section dense rather than watery, and it is the part of the cup milk interacts with most. Milk proteins bind some of the astringent compounds, which is why the same tea reads sharp black and rounded white. The mesh does not shorten this stage: colour arrives early but the malt still needs its four minutes. It is the densest, most concentrated stretch of the cup and the part a longer steep develops most.The base structure is the lingering finish: a dry, faintly tannic note that clears the palate and invites the next sip, running slightly cleaner here because an open mesh sheds less dust into the liquor than a paper bag does. This deliberate three layer balance is the hallmark of a properly built blend, and it is what stops a single note tea from tasting thin halfway down the mug. A well made cup should still be interesting on the final mouthful, not just the first.Getting it right in the cup. Use one bag per 250ml and steep for four minutes in water straight off the boil; the specific trap with a mesh bag is that the liquor looks finished at two minutes and is not, so set a timer rather than judging by colour. Keep the mug covered for the first minute to hold the volatile oils in the liquid rather than losing them to the steam. Squeeze the bag once on the way out rather than repeatedly, because hard squeezing pushes through bitter fines instead of flavour. 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. Hotter water and a longer steep pull more of the heavier, deeper compounds for a fuller, rounder, more astringent result; cooler water or a shorter steep keeps the brighter top notes forward and the body lighter. Hard tap water mutes the malt and can leave a dull film on the surface, so in a hard water area a slightly longer steep and a filter jug both help, while soft water lets the briskness ring clearer and needs a touch less time. 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. ## Recipe Ideas Twinings Strong English Breakfast 120 Plant-Based, 375g is strong enough to hold its shape under milk, ice, sugar and flour, and the carton is big enough that spending a few bags on cooking costs nothing. Six builds below cover the everyday mug, the pot, an iced jug, a tea loaf, a marinade and a sweet condensed-milk brew. Recipes, born here first The Everyday Builder Mug How to make the standard strong mug with Twinings Strong English Breakfast Plant-Based. 4 min 1 mug Easy You'll need 1 bag Twinings Strong English Breakfast 250ml just boiled water Milk to taste Method Pour 250ml of just boiled water over one bag in a warmed mug and cover it. Steep a full 4 minutes on a timer rather than by eye; the mesh colours up before the tea is ready. Squeeze the bag once against the side and lift it out. Add milk until the colour reaches the shade you want. What you'll end up with: A deep copper cup that still tastes like tea after a generous splash of milk. The Pot for Four How to make a proper pot with Twinings Strong English Breakfast Plant-Based. 5 min 4 cups Easy You'll need 4 bags Twinings Strong English Breakfast 1 litre just boiled water A warmed teapot Milk to taste Method Warm the pot with a splash from the kettle and tip it out. Add 4 bags, one per person, and fill with 1 litre at a rolling boil. Steep 4 minutes with the lid on, then lift all four bags out together. Left in, the pot turns hard and drying by the second cup. What you'll end up with: Four even cups rather than one good one and three stewed ones. Iced Breakfast Tea with Lemon How to make iced tea with Twinings Strong English Breakfast Plant-Based. 6 min + chill 1 jug Easy You'll need 3 bags Twinings Strong English Breakfast 400ml just boiled water Plenty of ice 1 lemon Sugar to taste Method Brew 3 bags in 400ml of just boiled water for 6 minutes for a double-strength base. Sweeten while warm if you want it sweet. Cool, then pour over a jug packed with ice and add the juice of half a lemon. Serve with lemon wheels and no milk. What you'll end up with: A clear, brisk iced tea that does not go cloudy the way a delicate blend does. Spiced Tea Loaf How to make a tea loaf with Twinings Strong English Breakfast Plant-Based. 60 min + overnight 1 loaf Easy You'll need 3 bags Twinings Strong English Breakfast 300g mixed dried fruit 250g self raising flour 150g soft brown sugar 1 teaspoon mixed spice Method Brew 3 bags in 300ml of just boiled water for 10 minutes, then cool. Soak 300g of mixed dried fruit in the cooled tea overnight. The next day beat in 250g of self raising flour, 150g of soft brown sugar, 1 large egg and 1 teaspoon of mixed spice. Bake in a lined 2lb loaf tin at 170°C for 60 minutes. What you'll end up with: Keeps for 4 days in a tin and is meant to be eaten sliced and buttered. Strong Tea Marinade for Beef How to use Twinings Strong English Breakfast Plant-Based as a marinade base. 15 min + marinate 4 portions Medium You'll need 3 bags Twinings Strong English Breakfast 300ml just boiled water 3 cloves garlic, crushed 2 tablespoons brown sugar 3 tablespoons soy sauce Method Brew 3 bags in 300ml of just boiled water for 10 minutes, then cool completely. Stir in 3 crushed garlic cloves, 2 tablespoons of brown sugar and 3 tablespoons of soy sauce. Marinate beef in the cold liquid for 4 hours in the fridge. Drain, pat dry and cook over a high heat. What you'll end up with: The tannins tenderise and the malt deepens the crust, which a plain soy marinade will not do. Sweet Condensed Milk Brew How to make a sweet condensed-milk brew with Twinings Strong English Breakfast Plant-Based. 5 min 1 mug Easy You'll need 2 bags Twinings Strong English Breakfast 200ml just boiled water 2 tablespoons condensed milk Method Brew 2 bags in 200ml of just boiled water for 5 minutes for a very dark liquor. Stir in 2 tablespoons of condensed milk until it dissolves. Drink hot, or cool it and pour over ice. What you'll end up with: Sweet and heavy, and the one build where a second bag genuinely earns its place. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._