Flavour: Strawberry & Mint

Ingredients: Hibiscus, dried apples, peppermint (15%), strawberry flavouring, dried strawberries (2%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £5

Bags Per Box: 15

Our Review: The overriding smell is…elderberries…even though there aren’t any in the blend. Maybe it’s the flavouring? We also get some mint, but…no strawberry at all. The taste is basically hibiscus mixed with mint – again, no strawberry. There’s also a hit of feet (flavouring) and something that’s gone off…like it’s sat in a cupboard a long time. It’s not an ‘avoid’ but it’s also not pleasant. Some people might like it…but we thought it was pretty yuck. There’s just no need for artificial flavouring, guys – when will people learn!?

Best time of year to drink this: Summer

Best time of day to drink this: Afternoon

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Flavour: Peppermint & Strawberry

Ingredients: Peppermint (80%), natural strawberry flavouring with other natural flavourings (10%), black peppercorns (5%), natural peppermint flavouring (3%), natural flavouring

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: Around £2-3

Bags Per Box: 20

Review: The aroma is peppermint…and something weird…and the flavour is almost impossible to put into words. Bear with us here, but it’s like mint…that has strawberry in it…but you can’t taste the strawberry. Then there’s a peppery heat afterwards, which lingers for a long time. Trying again – it’s kind of like an earthy mint leaf with the actual stalk of a strawberry and then a bit of a kick. Really unusual! We’re not sure what we think of it but we love that Twinings did something creative. It’s not bad, but we expect people to be divided. At that price tag, though, it’s worth trying out!

Best time of year to drink this: Summer

Best time of day to drink this: Afternoons

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Flavour: Green Rooibos, Ginger & Peppermint

Ingredients: Green rooibos (58%), ginger root (20%), peppermint leaves (20%), natural flavours (ginger and mint – 2%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £3.99

Number of Bags: 20

Review: You know when you come across a tea and you can’t even remember buying it? Just us? Okay, then! So, we know what you’re thinking: ‘What a catchy tea name! I can’t imagine what it might taste like!’ To start, it smells exactly like Indian guaranga potatoes – in other words, savoury. Even before you pour the water, if you jiggle the bag you get peppermint…and then guaranga potatoes. There is no other way to describe it. Tulsi loves guaranga potatoes, so you’d think this blend would be a winner. Alas, it’s a bit uninspiring. It’s very planty, with a savoury edge. Minty…and then, you know…potatoes. There’s a mild hit of heat from the ginger, but not much else. It’s definitely not bad, but we weren’t blown away. Tulsi did crave potatoes, though.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Anytime – maybe after a meal, as a digestive

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Flavour: New Moon

Ingredients: Rooibos, peppermint, calendula petals, cacao bean pieces, natural flavours

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £6.75 for 60g

Review: This smells like T2’s Red Choc Mint, which you might remember is one of our all-time favourites. Only, this is slightly mintier. The flavour is just mmmmmm. It’s really wakeful, with a big bright flavour. Fresh, cleansing and cool, with more mint than Red Choc Mint. It’s only slightly chocolatey, and as much as we adore the T2 blend (we have so many tins of it in our homes), this one feels even more natural. Highly recommended.

If you live anywhere near Glastonbury (or visit there regularly), you can bring in your empty glass jar and have it refilled at a discount to the full price. Alternatively, you can order online at their official website. Do recycle the old jars

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Anytime, but maybe best in the morning, to wake you up

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Flavour: Mighty Mint

Ingredients: Peppermint (60%), spearmint (40%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100% organic

Price Range: £2.50

Bags Per Box: 16

Review: You really shouldn’t be able to go wrong with this combination…but they manage it. Despite being 100% mint, it doesn’t actually smell very mint. It even smells a little like liquorice! The flavour, then, is pretty average. Nothing about it stands out, not even as much as some of the straight peppermint brews we’ve had. There’s no real spearmint flavour. And after a while…it gets a little unpleasant to drink. It’s certainly not ‘bad’. It’s just…not that great compared to other options on the market.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Anytime

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Flavour: Mint & Fennel

Ingredients: Peppermint (41%), spearmint, ginger root, sweet cinnamon, fennel (9%), aniseed, liquorice root, cardamom (3%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2

Bags Per Box: 20

Review: Despite the name, it smells overwhelmingly of liquorice, threatening to be intensely sweet. Thankfully, it doesn’t taste as strong. In fact, it hardly tastes of anything. It’s water, with a mild gingery kick…and that’s about it. We left the bag in for ages, but we never got any mint, and the fennel was swallowed up by other ingredients. It’s not bad, but we didn’t see the point. It certainly didn’t deliver what the name promises.

Best time of year to drink this: Summer?

Best time of day to drink this: After meals, for digestion

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Flavour: Choco Mint Rooibos

Ingredients: Rooibos, peppermint leaves, carob and cacao bean pieces, calendula and safflower petals, and natural flavours

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £10

Tin Size: 125g

Our Review: We sooooo wanted to love this…but they’ve spoiled a great idea by throwing in those flowers. It smells a lot like T2’s Red Choc Mint (one of our absolute favourites), but with quite a chocolatey after-whiff! Strangely, you can’t really taste that. The flavour is bitter (probably from the calendula) and heavy on the mint (as if they’ve used the essential oil)…with some chocolate as an afterthought. They tried too hard to be different by throwing in extras that we don’t think need to be there. They ruin the delicate balance of the main ingredients, and at that price tag, we wouldn’t bother with this one. It’s not bad…but there are better variations on this idea.

Best time of year to drink this: Summer?

Best time of day to drink this: Morning or afternoon

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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: 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: Infuso Menta e Eucalipto

Ingredients: Orange peel, hibiscus, rosehips, eucalyptus leaves (12%), peppermint (3%), elderberries, natural flavours / essential oils

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: Є4.50 for 100g

Review: …elderberries…. As you can guess, this wasn’t for us. You can smell the feet through the bag, before you even open it. When you brew it, the foot odour combines with the menthol to create something that immediately reminded us both of toilet cleaner. It isn’t inviting.

The taste is extremely bitter from the orange peel, the peppermint is very strong (essential oil), and the elderberries bring their usual footy flavour. On drinking it, we had the ‘what have you done to me?’ face. It’s just elderberries – yes, they have health benefits, but we can’t imagine why anyone has them for pleasure. Elderflower, sure. Berries, no – just like this infusion.

Best time of year to drink this: Never

Best time of day to drink this: Never

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