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    "title": "Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry & Cucumber with Green Tea 20, 40g",
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    "excerpt": "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.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. It contains caffeine from the green tea and wants water at about 80 degrees for two to three minutes, not boiling water for five.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We usually dispatch this line within 1 to 2 working days. Storage notes, freshness windows and brewing temperature ranges are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.",
    "content_text": "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. The Taste Profile\n\nStrawberry: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) The lead, and sweeter on the nose than in the mouth. It reads as ripe fruit rather than as confectionery, which is the difference between this and a cheap fruit tea.\nCucumber Freshness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) The reason the blend works. A cool, green, slightly watery note that stops the strawberry turning jammy and makes the cup taste lighter than it is.\nGreen Tea Base: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Underneath everything, giving the cup its structure and a faint grip. Overbrew it and this layer is the one that turns hard.\nClean Finish: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Short, fresh and slightly drying. It resets the palate rather than lingering, which is why it suits a warm afternoon.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.5 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk 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 \nCount and weight: twenty bags, 40g net, which is 2g a bag. \nGreen 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.\n\nBetter 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.\n\n How Does Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry and Cucumber with Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 40g Compare to: \nTwinings Glow, 20 Tea Bags 44g: a Glow-named Twinings pack already on our shelves under a shorter title, at 44g across twenty bags and a different barcode. Treat them as separate lines and buy on the pack in front of you rather than assuming the two match.\n\nTwinings Strawberry and Raspberry, 20 Tea Bags 40g: the pure fruit infusion version, with no tea leaf in it at all. Caffeine free, rounder and sweeter, and it will not go hard on you if you forget the mug.\n Ideal Brewing Conditions 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\n\nMeasure: one bag in a mug of 200 to 250ml.\nWater: about 80 degrees Celsius. In practice that is a boiled kettle left to stand for three or four minutes, or a splash of cold water in the mug before the hot goes in.\nSteep: two minutes, and no more than three. This is the opposite instruction from every herbal blend in the same range, and it is the whole difference.\nFinish: clear. No milk, and taste before you sweeten; the strawberry already reads sweeter than the cup actually is.\n The Cold Jug\n\nMeasure: four bags in a litre jug of cold water, straight from the fridge.\nSteep: six to eight hours or overnight. Cold water never pulls tannin, so there is no way to over-brew this and no bitterness at the end of it.\nFinish: lift the bags out, add cucumber ribbons and a slice of lemon, and keep the jug for two days.\nWhy it works: cucumber and strawberry are both cold-drink flavours. This is the build the blend was waiting for.\n Brewing The Perfect Cup of Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry and Cucumber with Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 40g\n\nWater temperature: about 80\u00b0C. Boiling water is the single most common way to ruin this cup.\nMeasure: one bag per 200 to 250ml.\nSteep: 2 to 3 minutes. Longer does not make it stronger, it makes it drying.\nService: clear and unsweetened. Milk has no place in a fruited green tea.\nIced version: cold brew 4 bags in a litre of cold water overnight, or brew double strength hot and pour over ice. Cucumber ribbons in the jug are worth the thirty seconds.\n\nBest with: salads, cold chicken, summer fruit and anything you would otherwise drink a cordial with.\n Safety And Purity\n\nIngredients 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.\nChemical cleanliness: any added vitamins or other additions would be listed there.\nAllergen warning: read the current pack, particularly if a blend containing fruit pieces is new to the household.\nCaffeine and the evening: this is a green tea and it carries caffeine, so it is a daytime cup rather than a bedtime one. The pure fruit infusion version is the caffeine free alternative if you want the same flavour at night.",
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                "title": "Product Questions",
                "content": "Is this a fruit tea or a green tea?A green tea with strawberry and cucumber over the top, which is why the brewing advice is different from the rest of the Superblends range. The fruit is what you smell; the green tea leaf underneath is what gives the cup its structure, its faint grip and all of its caffeine. Does it contain caffeine?Yes, from the green tea base, and at the low end of the scale because the leaf shares the bag with fruit and botanical pieces rather than filling it. If you want the same flavour at bedtime, buy a pure fruit infusion instead. What temperature should the water be?About 80 degrees, which is a boiled kettle left to stand three or four minutes. Green tea leaf scalds in boiling water and gives up a hard, drying tannin that no amount of strawberry will cover. This is the single thing that decides whether the cup is good. How long do I steep it for?Two minutes, three at the outside. Steeping a green tea longer does not make it stronger in any useful sense; it makes it drying. If the cup tastes weak, use a bigger measure or a smaller mug rather than more time. Can you actually taste the cucumber?Yes, and it is the reason the blend works. Strawberry alone in hot water drifts towards jam. Cucumber brings a cool, green, faintly watery note that pulls it back towards something closer to a cold drink, and it is far more obvious iced than hot. Is it good cold brewed?Better cold than hot, which is unusual. Drop four bags into a litre jug of cold water and leave it in the fridge overnight. Cold water never pulls tannin, so there is no bitterness and no way to over-brew it, and both of these flavours belong in a cold glass anyway. How many bags and how heavy is each?Twenty bags, 40g net, which is 2g a bag. That is a normal weight for a flavoured green tea, where the leaf has to share the bag with fruit pieces rather than having it to itself. Will Glow do anything for my skin?Honestly assessed it is a light, fresh, low-caffeine tea that people tend to drink more of in warm weather, and drinking more of anything is usually the part that helps. Are the bags plastic free and compostable?Bag material and the disposal route for bag, envelope and carton are printed on the current UK pack, and change between production runs, so the box in your kitchen is the better authority. What food goes with it?Salads, cold chicken, summer fruit and light lunches. It behaves more like a cordial than a tea at the table, and it is one of the few tea bags that suits a savoury plate rather than only a sweet one. How should I store it?Sealed, cool, dry and away from strong smells. Green tea loses its freshness faster than black tea does, and fruit pieces are absorbent, so an open carton next to coffee or spices goes dull quickly. The best-before date is printed on the pack."
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                "title": "Ingredients & Nutrition",
                "content": "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%).Typical values per 100ml, as publishedPer 100mlEnergy1 kcalFat0gof which saturates0gCarbohydrate"
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                "content": "The flavour of Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry and Cucumber with Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 40g 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 it is almost entirely strawberry. Fruit aromatics are volatile, they sit on the surface of the dried pieces and they leave the moment hot water arrives, which is why the mug smells like a much sweeter drink than the one you are about to taste. That gap between the nose and the palate is not a fault in the blend, it is what fruit over tea always does, and it is why a cup left to stand smells flat within twenty minutes while losing none of its actual strength.The flavour spike arrives mid palate and is where the cucumber earns its place on the front of the box. Strawberry on its own in hot water drifts towards jam within a minute of brewing; cucumber brings a cool, green, faintly watery note across the top of it and pulls the whole thing back towards something fresher. Underneath both, the green tea leaf is doing structural work rather than flavour work, supplying a faint tannic grip that stops the cup feeling like warm squash. It is the densest stretch of the cup and the part that a hot, long steep spoils first.The base structure is the lingering finish, and here it is short and slightly drying rather than sweet. The tannin from the green tea closes the cup down and resets the palate, which is exactly why this blend works alongside food where a pure fruit infusion would simply sit on top of it. A well brewed cup should finish clean and stop; a finish that grips and stays is the sign the water was too hot.Getting it right in the cup. Use one bag per 200 to 250ml and steep for two to three minutes in water at about 80 degrees, which is a boiled kettle left standing three or four minutes. Over-steeping and over-heating are the only real faults available with this blend, and they produce the same result: a hard, drying cup with the fruit buried underneath it. Cold brewed in the fridge for six to eight hours the same bags become a genuinely different and arguably better drink, because cold water never extracts tannin at all: no grip, no bitterness, a rounder sweetness and the cucumber note far more forward than it ever is hot. Stored sealed somewhere cool and dark the character holds, though green tea fades faster than black and this one is worth drinking inside its date rather than at the end of it.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 tannin from the green leaf for a fuller, more astringent result that reads as strong and is really just dry; cooler water or a shorter steep keeps the strawberry and cucumber forward and the body lighter, which with this blend is almost always the better trade. Hard tap water mutes the fruit and flattens the cucumber, so in a hard water area use the full three minutes, while soft water lets the top notes 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."
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                "content": "Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry and Cucumber with Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 40g is a better cold drink than a hot one, which is unusual for a tea bag and shapes every build below. Six of them: the correct hot cup, an overnight cold jug, a spa-style water, a summer spritz, a lolly for the freezer and a light cocktail.\nRecipes, born here first\n\n \n The Correct Hot Cup\n \n How to make The Correct Hot Cup with Twinings Superblends Glow.\n \n 3 min\n 1 cup\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 bag Twinings Superblends Glow\n 250ml water at about 80 degrees\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Boil the kettle and let it stand for 3 to 4 minutes, or put a splash of cold water in the mug first.\n Pour 250ml over one bag of Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry and Cucumber with Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 40g.\n Steep 2 minutes, 3 at the outside, then lift the bag out.\n Drink it clear. No milk, and taste before you sweeten.\n \n \n \n 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.\n\n \n Overnight Cold Jug\n \n How to make an Overnight Cold Jug with Twinings Superblends Glow.\n \n 5 min + 8 hours\n 1 litre\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 4 bags Twinings Superblends Glow\n 1 litre cold water\n Half a cucumber, ribboned\n 1 lemon, sliced\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Drop 4 bags of Twinings Superblends Glow Strawberry and Cucumber with Green Tea, 20 Tea Bags 40g into a litre jug of cold water.\n Add half a cucumber cut into ribbons with a peeler and a sliced lemon.\n Refrigerate 8 hours or overnight, then lift the bags out.\n Keep the jug for two days; the cucumber goes soft after that.\n \n \n \n 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.\n\n \n Spa Water for a Jug on the Table\n \n How to make Spa Water with Twinings Superblends Glow.\n \n 10 min + chill\n 1.5 litres\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 3 bags Twinings Superblends Glow\n 500ml water at about 80 degrees\n 1 litre cold water and ice\n 6 strawberries, halved\n A few mint leaves\n \n \n \n Method\n \n 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.\n Lift the bags out and top up with 1 litre of cold water.\n Add 6 halved strawberries and a few mint leaves and chill.\n Serve over ice, with the fruit in the glass.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Brewing strong and diluting cold keeps it from tasting watery once the ice starts melting into it.\n\n \n Strawberry Cucumber Spritz (Non-Alcoholic)\n \n How to make a Strawberry Cucumber Spritz with Twinings Superblends Glow.\n \n 6 min + chill\n 1 tall glass\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 bags Twinings Superblends Glow\n 150ml water at about 80 degrees\n Ice\n 100ml chilled soda water\n A cucumber ribbon to garnish\n \n \n \n Method\n \n 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.\n Fill a tall glass with ice and pour the cooled concentrate over it.\n Top with 100ml of chilled soda water.\n Garnish with a cucumber ribbon curled inside the glass.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Dry, fresh and barely sweet, which is what most shop-bought fruit spritzes are not.\n\n \n Strawberry Cucumber Lollies\n \n How to make Strawberry Cucumber Lollies with Twinings Superblends Glow.\n \n 8 min + freezing\n 6 lollies\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 3 bags Twinings Superblends Glow\n 300ml water at about 80 degrees\n 2 tablespoons clear honey\n 6 strawberries, chopped\n \n \n \n Method\n \n 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.\n Stir in 2 tablespoons of clear honey while warm and let it cool.\n Divide 6 chopped strawberries between 6 lolly moulds and pour the cooled tea over them.\n Freeze with the sticks in for at least 6 hours.\n \n \n \n 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.\n\n \n Garden Cup Cocktail (Adult)\n \n How to make a Garden Cup Cocktail with Twinings Superblends Glow.\n \n 6 min + chill\n 1 glass\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 bags Twinings Superblends Glow\n 150ml water at about 80 degrees\n 35ml gin\n Ice\n Cucumber ribbons\n Fresh mint\n \n \n \n Method\n \n 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.\n Combine the cold concentrate with 35ml of gin in a glass full of ice.\n Add cucumber ribbons and a sprig of fresh mint and stir.\n Taste before adding anything sweet; it rarely needs it.\n \n \n \n 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."
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