Brand: Twinings
Flavour: Detox
Ingredients: Fennel (20%), lemon peel (16%), lemongrass, burdock root (10%), ginger (10%), spearmint, natural lemon flavour with other natural flavours (7%), rooibos (1%), natural lemongrass flavour, verbena, selenium (1%), natural basil flavour with other natural flavours
Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free Organic Ingredients: Unknown Price Range: £3 Bags Per Box: 20 Review: If you're like us, you're probably looking at that ingredients list and thinking that's a lot of 'natural flavours'. Yes, this means oils and other essences from the plant used. However, in this case, we don't see the point. Natural basil flavour?? Why not just stick dried basil directly into the blend? And what purpose does the 1% addition of rooibos serve? We also highly doubt that 1% selenium is going to do anyone any good compared to taking a selenium supplement or eating selenium-rich nuts. This is just something to stick on the box to make the tea sound like it has extra health benefits, to make you buy it. As you can tell, we don't like this - at all. It smells disgusting, like lemony kitchen cleaner. Tulsi's son said, 'No no no no no - if you drink that tea, you are wrong.' It tastes just as bad as it smells: foul. It's painfully sour with that artificial-tasting edge to it that lemongrass and verbena always gives a tea, despite it being a natural plant - and there are just too many other flavours in there, competing for attention, none of them balancing each other out. Being total nerds with day jobs in the financial services industry, we couldn't help but look at all those ingredients and declare this tea over-diversified. Even in the tea world, you really do need a more concentrated portfolio than this. We're marking this one an AVOID.Best time of year to drink this: Never
Best time of day to drink this: Never
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