Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry & Cucumber with Green Tea 20, 40g
Cucumber is the part that makes this work, and it is an odd thing to find in a tea bag. Strawberry on its own in hot water slides towards jam; the cool green note pulls it back, so what you get reads as fresh fruit rather than confectionery, which is the whole difference between this and an ordinary fruit tea. There is green tea leaf underneath giving it shape and a faint grip, which is why it stays refreshing instead of sweet. It suits a warm afternoon, a salad lunch, cold chicken.
Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry & Cucumber with Green Tea 20, in brief.
Twinings Superblends Glow is a flavoured green tea rather than a fruit infusion: strawberry and cucumber over a green tea base, in the daytime half of the Twinings Superblends range, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection because the cucumber note makes it one of the few hot tea bags genuinely worth cold brewing.
It contains caffeine from the green tea and wants water at about 80 degrees for two to three minutes, not boiling water for five.
Twinings Superblends Glow is a green tea underneath a fruit blend, and that order matters more than the front of the box suggests. Strawberry and cucumber are what you smell and largely what you taste, but green tea leaf is what gives the cup its shape, its faint grip and the only caffeine in it.
Cucumber is an unusual thing to find in a tea bag and it is the reason this blend reads as fresh rather than sweet. Strawberry on its own in hot water tends towards jam; cucumber pulls it back towards something closer to a cold drink, which is why this is one of the few flavoured green teas that is genuinely better iced than hot. Twenty bags at 40g net is 2g a bag, a normal weight for a flavoured green tea where the leaf has to share the bag with fruit and botanical pieces.
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. Storage notes, freshness windows and brewing temperature ranges are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind Twinings Superblends
Twinings is the family tea house trading from London since 1706, and Superblends is its modern functional range: blends sold under what they are for rather than under a botanical name. Glow sits in the daytime half of that range. Underneath the name it is a flavoured green tea, which is a genuinely different product from the pure herbal infusions that make up most of the Superblends line, and the difference shows up the first time somebody brews it with boiling water.
The full ingredient list, the proportions, any added vitamins or other additions, the allergen advice, the bag material and the best-before date must all be read off the current UK carton 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
- Count and weight: twenty bags, 40g net, which is 2g a bag.
- Green tea, not a herbal infusion: the name says so and it changes how you brew it. Green tea leaf carries tannin and turns hard in boiling water, where a fruit infusion would not mind at all.
- Better iced than most: the cucumber note survives chilling where soft florals go flat. This is one of the few hot-brewed tea bags worth building a cold jug around.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry & Cucumber with Green Tea 20, 40g, 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.
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The taste profile
How does it compare
Almost every complaint about a flavoured green tea comes down to one thing: it was brewed like a fruit tea. Water straight off the boil scalds green leaf in seconds and pulls a hard, drying tannin out of it that no amount of strawberry will hide. Get the temperature right and the rest of this blend looks after itself.
The Hot Cup
The Cold Jug
Made with this tea
The Correct Hot Cup
How to make The Correct Hot Cup with Twinings Superblends Glow.
- 1 bag Twinings Superblends Glow
- 250ml water at about 80 degrees
- Boil the kettle and let it stand for 3 to 4 minutes, or put a splash of cold water in the mug first.
- Pour 250ml over one bag of Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry and Cucumber with Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 40g.
- Steep 2 minutes, 3 at the outside, then lift the bag out.
- Drink it clear. No milk, and taste before you sweeten.
What you'll end up with: The whole recipe is the kettle standing for three minutes. Skip that and you get a hard, drying cup with the fruit buried under it.
Overnight Cold Jug
How to make an Overnight Cold Jug with Twinings Superblends Glow.
- 4 bags Twinings Superblends Glow
- 1 litre cold water
- Half a cucumber, ribboned
- 1 lemon, sliced
- Drop 4 bags of Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry and Cucumber with Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 40g into a litre jug of cold water.
- Add half a cucumber cut into ribbons with a peeler and a sliced lemon.
- Refrigerate 8 hours or overnight, then lift the bags out.
- Keep the jug for two days; the cucumber goes soft after that.
What you'll end up with: The best thing you can do with this box. Cold water pulls no tannin at all, so there is no bitterness however long you leave it.
Spa Water for a Jug on the Table
How to make Spa Water with Twinings Superblends Glow.
- 3 bags Twinings Superblends Glow
- 500ml water at about 80 degrees
- 1 litre cold water and ice
- 6 strawberries, halved
- A few mint leaves
- Brew 3 bags of Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry and Cucumber with Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 40g in 500ml of water at about 80 degrees for 3 minutes.
- Lift the bags out and top up with 1 litre of cold water.
- Add 6 halved strawberries and a few mint leaves and chill.
- Serve over ice, with the fruit in the glass.
What you'll end up with: Brewing strong and diluting cold keeps it from tasting watery once the ice starts melting into it.
Strawberry Cucumber Spritz (Non-Alcoholic)
How to make a Strawberry Cucumber Spritz with Twinings Superblends Glow.
- 2 bags Twinings Superblends Glow
- 150ml water at about 80 degrees
- Ice
- 100ml chilled soda water
- A cucumber ribbon to garnish
- Brew 2 bags of Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry and Cucumber with Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 40g in 150ml of 80 degree water for 3 minutes, double strength, then cool.
- Fill a tall glass with ice and pour the cooled concentrate over it.
- Top with 100ml of chilled soda water.
- Garnish with a cucumber ribbon curled inside the glass.
What you'll end up with: Dry, fresh and barely sweet, which is what most shop-bought fruit spritzes are not.
Strawberry Cucumber Lollies
How to make Strawberry Cucumber Lollies with Twinings Superblends Glow.
- 3 bags Twinings Superblends Glow
- 300ml water at about 80 degrees
- 2 tablespoons clear honey
- 6 strawberries, chopped
- Brew 3 bags of Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry and Cucumber with Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 40g in 300ml of 80 degree water for 4 minutes.
- Stir in 2 tablespoons of clear honey while warm and let it cool.
- Divide 6 chopped strawberries between 6 lolly moulds and pour the cooled tea over them.
- Freeze with the sticks in for at least 6 hours.
What you'll end up with: The honey is doing structural work as well as sweetening; without it these freeze hard enough to be unpleasant.
Garden Cup Cocktail (Adult)
How to make a Garden Cup Cocktail with Twinings Superblends Glow.
- 2 bags Twinings Superblends Glow
- 150ml water at about 80 degrees
- 35ml gin
- Ice
- Cucumber ribbons
- Fresh mint
- Brew 2 bags of Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry and Cucumber with Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 40g in 150ml of 80 degree water for 3 minutes, then chill it thoroughly.
- Combine the cold concentrate with 35ml of gin in a glass full of ice.
- Add cucumber ribbons and a sprig of fresh mint and stir.
- Taste before adding anything sweet; it rarely needs it.
What you'll end up with: Close to a garden cup and considerably drier. The cucumber in the blend does the work the fruit salad does in the original.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100ml, as published | Per 100ml |
|---|---|
| Energy | 1 kcal |
| Fat | 0g |
| of which saturates | 0g |
| Carbohydrate | <0.5g |
| of which sugars | <0.5g |
| Protein | 0g |
| Salt | 0g |
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.
Ingredients, as published for this product: Green Tea (39%), Apple Pieces, Nettle, Natural Strawberry Flavouring with other Natural Flavourings (8%), Peppermint, Natural Cucumber Flavouring (5%), Natural Flavouring, Aloe Vera Juice Granules (1%), Biotin (1%).
Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Green tea | Not stated to us | The base of the blend and the part the name puts last. It supplies the structure, the faint tannic grip and all of the caffeine in the cup. |
| Strawberry | Not stated to us | The lead flavour, sweeter on the nose than in the mouth. Reads as ripe fruit rather than confectionery, which is what separates this from a cheap fruit tea. |
| Cucumber | Not stated to us | The reason the blend works. A cool, green, slightly watery note that keeps the strawberry from turning jammy and makes the cup taste lighter than it is. |
| Format | 20 bags, 40g net | 2g a bag, the usual weight for a flavoured green tea where the leaf shares the bag with fruit and botanical pieces. |
Pack: Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry and Cucumber with Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 40g; a flavoured green tea that contains caffeine. Store sealed, cool and dry; the best-before date is printed on the pack.
Blended by Twinings.
Sourcing & blend. Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry and Cucumber with Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 40g is put together by Twinings, the family tea house trading from London since 1706. Superblends is the house's functional range, sold under what a blend is for rather than under a botanical name, and Glow sits in its daytime half. Underneath the name this is a flavoured green tea rather than a herbal infusion, which is the one fact that changes how you should brew it.
What's in Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry and Cucumber with Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 40g, and what isn't:
- In: a flavoured green tea: green tea leaf with strawberry and cucumber character, with nothing in the bag but the listed components and the tea base.
- No added sugar in the cup: the bag brews to effectively nothing on its own. Whether the pack itself carries added sugar, sweetener or vitamins is on the ingredient declaration.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry & Cucumber with Green Tea 20, 40g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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