Brand: Twinings Flavour: Cherry Bakewell Green Tea

Ingredients: Green tea, natural cherry flavouring with other natural flavourings (10%), natural vanilla flavouring with other natural flavourings (2%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated Organic Ingredients: Unknown Price Range: £2.69 Bags Per Box: 20

Review: We read out the name of this tea to Three Tulsi's mother. She said, 'Ewwww, that sounds disgusting!' And she's right. It doesn't help, either, that it genuinely smells like mould spores, when you brew it - mould spores and marzipan - or maybe a damp dishcloth that's been left a long time...that was used to clean up after making something with marzipan. (We're really selling this, yes?)

Thankfully, it doesn't quite taste like that. It's almost entirely marzipan (strongly so), and there's a bit of green tea flavour underneath, but no dishcloth or mould spores. Sadly, no cherry, either. There is strangely no aftertaste, and it has a nice smooth finish. So it's not as awful as we expected. It's just...why would anyone want to drink marzipan!?

We offered some to Three Tulsi's son, who described it as: 'zingy - not too much flavour, but it's quite nice...but it's doing things to my tongue, now...oh! No no no no.'

All in all, if you really love marzipan, this might be a good, healthy sweet treat after lunch to get you through the rest of the day. If (like us) you think marzipan belongs on a cake, not in a cup, maybe give this one a miss.

Best time of year to drink this: Hard to say...autumn?

Best time of day to drink this: After lunch.

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