Brand: Pukka Teas Flavour: Blackcurrant Beauty

Description: 'Deliciously deep purple organic fruits to help you glow inside and out - good news for wrapping yourself and your skin in pure velvet.'

Ingredients: Rosehip, hibiscus flower, licorice root, fennel seed, orange peel, beetroot, blackcurrant fruit (4%), natural blackcurrant flavour (4%), orange essential oil flavour.

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free Organic Ingredients: 99.9% Price Range: £2-3 Bags Per Box: 20

Our Review: Beetroot and blackcurrant must have become trendy at some point, because this blend and Twinings' Intensely Beetroot Burst came on the market at pretty much the same time.  So, we can't help but compare the two.

Where the Twinings offering smelled earthy, Pukka's blend smells like hot Ribena.  It's sickly sweet, like candy floss.

However, the flavour is anything but.  No matter how long you leave it to brew, the taste is mostly hot water, though there is a mild blackcurrant aftertaste.  You can only just taste the beetroot; it mostly tempers the faint sweetness of the berries, licorice and fennel.

We can't understand why the other ingredients are even on the list.  You can't taste them.  With hibiscus at the top of the list, you'd expect some kind of tartness, but it's not really there.

All in all, this is an uninspiring blend that could be described as very mild fennel, a hint of earthiness, and a somewhat sweet aftertaste.  We think Pukka tried to do too much, with this one.  All those different ingredients cancel each other out.  If you're looking for a beetroot infusion, definitely go for the Twinings option instead.

Best time of year to drink this: No particular season

Best time of day to drink this: Afternoons, simply because we would recommend the Twinings option with lunch

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