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Flavour: Christmas Tea

Ingredients: Rooibos, cinnamon (13%), liquorice, coriander, honeybush (6%), orange peel, cloves, black pepper, anise, dried lemon juice, star anise (3%), cardamom, roasted chicory, lime, orange oil, cinnamon oil

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £3

Bags Per Box: 17

Review: This is gorgeous. We wish we could find it all year round! It smells like herbal chai, but milder, and with a slight fruity sweetness from the orange. The flavour is soothing and warming. It’s lightly sweet but with a warm spicy after-kicky-thing…and some refreshing orange. It’s a perfect, well-balanced blend that we would have every day, if we could. We hope it comes back next winter!

Best time of year to drink this: All year round (but obviously it’s marketed for the winter)

Best time of day to drink this: Evenings – perfect for unwinding after a long day

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Flavour: Fresh Inspiration (formerly Pure Freshness)

Ingredients: Spearmint, peppermint, ginger, anise, cinnamon, lime, black pepper, cardamom, lemongrass, fennel, cocoa shells, liquorice, peppermint oil, dried lemon juice, cloves, spearmint oil, ginger oil

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 17

Review: It quite literally smells like toothpaste. The flavour is initially very startling (no one expects to drink toothpaste!)…but then it gets better. It’s just so minty fresh…then bitter…then spicy (the black pepper KICKS at the back of the throat)…with a lingering feeling of coolness. It’s a highly confusing drinking experience. It’s definitely wakeful, and it would clear your breath after a meal out. The oils are just so strong that we wouldn’t personally drink this casually.

Best time of year to drink this: Whenever

Best time of day to drink this: After a meal

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Flavour: Minty Chlorella (or ‘minty cholera’, as one of us accidentally said)

Ingredients: Peppermint (27%), lemongrass (25%), liquorice, basil, lemon balm, white hibiscus, guayusa leaves, moringa, lime, chlorella (1%), baobab fruit, nettle

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 17

Review: This was disappointing. Knowing our tastes, we didn’t expect to like it – we just expected it to be more interesting than it is.

It smells like mint…and something unidentifiably green. The taste is very seaweedy – like sushi in a cup…with liquorice. That’s the biggest problem we have with it – the ubiquitous addition of liquorice where it is just not needed. We expect it’s there as a healthy alternative for people who usually load their drinks with sugar – but it ruins the flavour.

That said, this wasn’t as strong as we thought it would be. It’s aquatic…but mild. Kelpy, but weak. We couldn’t really taste anything else in the ingredients list. There isn’t a lot going on, here, so we don’t see the point.

Best time of year to drink this: Who knows?

Best time of day to drink this: Morning – it’s very caffeinated (guayusa leaves)

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Flavour: Natural Balance

Ingredients: Lemongrass (40%), liquorice (14%), shiitake (10%), fenugreek (10%), elderflower, linden flowers, basil, moringa, dried kombucha drink

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 17

Review: We expect there are people out there who will like this one a lot…but it really wasn’t for us.

We took it on an office tour, asking colleagues what they thought it smelled like. Responses included mushroom stock, cottage pie, stew, and ‘beefy’.

The taste is very mushroomy, and spicy, just as we expected. If that’s what you want to drink, fine. The issue is that you then get this blast of liquorice that is intensely sweet, which we just don’t understand. It’s like this blend doesn’t know what it wants to be – savoury or sweet. It’s largely savoury…so just be savoury! Why the liquorice? Still, we think someone out there will like it, so we haven’t marked it an ‘avoid’…even though we are definitely avoiding it!

Best time of year to drink this: Maybe more in the colder months

Best time of day to drink this: Mid-morning, when you’re trying to keep from snacking

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Flavour: Bee Happy

Ingredients: Peppermint (30%), apple (14%), chamomile flowers, liquorice, hibiscus, rosemary, sage, lavender flowers (2.5%), thyme, yarrow, oregano

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 17

Review: This is a hard one to describe. There’s something very pretty about it.

If you look at those ingredients, they’ve taken lots of savoury herbs and mixed them up with fragrant flowers, plus refreshing mint, tart apple and hibiscus, and a hint of sweetness (liquorice). In combination, the blend is harmonious and milder than we expected – not too sweet or savoury but just right. It’s a great one for after meals – refreshing and, despite the long ingredients list, simple. We’re not sure how to the taste into words, but we highly recommend this one. Both the aroma and the flavour is soothing and cheerful, just like the name suggests.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Anytime, but especially after meals

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Flavour: Sun Salutation

Ingredients: Cinnamon (26%), roasted chicory (21%), cardamom (16%), barley malt, orange peel (8%), liquorice, black pepper, orange oil, lime

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 17

Review: This was an instant favourite. We’ve had a hard time finding it in physical shops, so the last time Tulsi visited Glastonbury (where she first found this one), she bought 6 boxes. You can easily order it online, as well.

It tastes just like it smells – smooth, warming and wakeful. Although the aroma is largely chicory with a hint of orange, you can’t pull out any one ingredient on its own, when you taste it. They’re perfectly balanced to create a drink that’s lightly spicy, richly earthy, and not too sweet. It’s refreshing but somehow hits the same spot as coffee, likely due to the chicory and barley malt. It’s a great one for the morning, or after meals, or in the evening when you want to wind down. We could drink this all day and never get tired of it – one of the best in Yogi’s whole range.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Anytime

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Flavour: Alkaline Herbs

Ingredients: Lemongrass, lemon balm, dandelion (11%), nettle (7%), spearmint, lavender flowers (4%), fennel, carrot, linden flowers, alfalfa, parsley

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 17

Review: We were very excited to try this one, when we saw uncommon tea ingredients like alfalfa and carrot on the list. Unfortunately, it wasn’t that interesting to drink. As you might expect, it smells and tastes quite grassy, but with a touch of citrus…and that’s about it. We couldn’t identify any of the other ingredients. But it’s very good for you, particularly if you struggle with acid reflux. This one’s designed to cool that down and make you feel more comfortable after a big meal. Just don’t expect it to wow you with flavour – that’s not why you’ll pick this one up.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: After a big meal

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Flavour: Choco

Ingredients: Cocoa shells (65%), liquorice, cinnamon, carob, barley malt, cardamom, ginger, cloves, cinnamon extract (natural flavour), vanilla extract (natural flavour), black pepper, ginger oil, vanilla beans

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 17

Review: This is very similar to their Choco Chili blend, but without the chili. It smells of chocolate and spice. It’s subtle but warming and very wintry. Tasting it, it’s not as chocolatey as you’d expect. Despite 65% cocoa shells, the flavour is more like sticky gingerbread cake – probably due to all the spice, and the liquorice adding that hint of sweetness. This is one blend where they got the liquorice balance just right.

It’s a delicious after-meal treat that we highly recommend.

Best time of year to drink this: Autumn / winter, when you need a bit of inner warming

Best time of day to drink this: Afternoon / evening, after food

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Flavour: Turmeric Chai

Ingredients: Turmeric root (55%), cinnamon (14%), liquorice, ginger (7%), cardamom (3%), black pepper, apple, fennel, mace, cocoa shells, cloves

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 17

Review: Another turmeric blend, but we aren’t fans of this one.

The ingredients list is a little bizarre. When you hit ‘cocoa shells’ near the end, your eyebrows go up automatically.

Although 55% is turmeric, you can’t smell it much over the spices. That set flavour expectations. Disappointingly, it didn’t taste much of spice. The liquorice overpowers just about everything. Then, long after we’ve drunk it, there’s a lingering turmeric aftertaste. That’s it – no cardamom or pepper or apple, and certainly no coca flavour! We’re not sure why Yogi thought this needed sweetness. It would be so much nicer without it. Some might like it, but we don’t see the point. It’s like turmeric chai for people who don’t like turmeric or chai.

Best time of year to drink this: Autumn

Best time of day to drink this: After dinner, if it’s your thing

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Flavour: Echinacea

Ingredients: Cinnamon, echinacea (14%), ginger, fennel, rooibos (10%), roasted chicory, carob, cardamom (4%), basil, burdock root, turmeric root, black pepper, astragalus, vanilla beans

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 17

Review: A most confusingly delicious blend! Bewilderingly, it smells like apple, although there is no apple in the ingredients list – not just apple, but warm, hearty things, with a mildly spicy edge and a hint of sweetness.

The taste is most identifiably rooibos, despite this only forming 10% of the blend. There is then the flavour of spiced apple – again, we can’t tell you why. Perhaps it’s the carob. Whatever it is, the overall effect is warming, sweet, smokey and flavoursome. It’s a great one to have in the evening and quickly became one of Tulsi’s husband’s favourites on the shelf. We doubt you’ll be able to pick out any one ingredient as you drink it – or work out why it’s named Ecihinacea – but it’s a good bet that you’ll love it.

Best time of year to drink this: Autumn

Best time of day to drink this: Evening

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