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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: Moroccan Mint

Ingredients: Green tea (70%), spearmint (30%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £3

Bags Per Box: 15

Review: This is gorgeous! The actual green tea flavour is mild, perfectly balanced with the spearmint, which is fresh and slightly sweet. No green tea bitterness at all. It’s soothing and cleansing, wakeful and lively, and we could drink it every day. A must-have.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Morning or afternoon

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Flavour: Midgard

Ingredients: Green maté, lemongrass, spearmint, ginseng, gingko, nettle, cornflower, calendula and sunflower petals

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £6.75 for 60g

Review: This is such an interesting one, because we don’t like maté…but we really liked this. It smells like lemongrass…and more lemongrass…and maybe a little spearmint. The flavour is so nicely balanced, though, that both the lemon and maté blend right in with the other ingredients and become something new. It’s refreshing, a little sweet and very soothing – citrusy but mild. Not bitter and not like cleaning product – simply delicious. Another winner from them!

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: Spring / summer

Best time of day to drink this: Morning / afternoon

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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: Blue Apple Lime

Ingredients: Dried apple pieces (28.5%), cinnamon, kaffir lime leaves (15%), blue butterfly pea flowers (15%), spearmint, lemongrass, lemon verbena, flavouring and citric acid (acidifier)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £10

Tin Size: 125g

Our Review: This one is so much fun. It smells citrusy – like lime – and it tastes like it, too! With some apple. Despite all the flowers, it’s not too floral until the aftertaste – there’s a bit of an ‘after-floral’, you could say. It has a subtle sweetness. It’s a hard one to describe – complex and distinct, interesting without being mind-boggling. It’s soothing and a good one for having in the evening, at the end of a long day. We also highly recommend adding lemon juice, which a) makes it taste even nicer and b) changes the colour from a rich bright blue to a gorgeous purply pink in your cup – magic! Just be careful not to overdo the lemon juice. We think it tastes best when the blend shifts into a kind of dark fuchsia rather than going all the way pink.

Best time of year to drink this: Spring / summer

Best time of day to drink this: Afternoon or evening

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Flavour: Down Time

Ingredients: Rooibos (60%), apple pieces, flavouring, hibiscus, spearmint (3%), bilberry (1%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £4

Bags Per Box: 12

Review: Hmm…fruit, mint and rooibos. They don’t really mix – at least, not in this blend. Although it smells minty and nice, the flavour is very artificial. We couldn’t really taste any berries, just ultra-sweet mint, and the aftertaste is awful. We’re not marking it avoid, because we can imagine someone out there liking it – but it really wasn’t for us.

Best time of year to drink this: Spring or summer

Best time of day to drink this: After a meal

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Flavour: Just Dessert

Ingredients: Black tea (75%), flavouring, spearmint (5%), cinnamon, cacao shells (2%), mallow flowers, melissa (2%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeinated

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £4

Bags Per Box: 12

Review: This smells delectable, like chocolate and mint, just as the box promises. We accidentally over-brewed it, but even then, the flavour was lovely. It’s earthy but fresh, due to the mix of tea, cacao and wakeful spearmint. You can’t really taste the other ingredients, although they probably add to the blend. Although it includes flavouring, it doesn’t taste artificial. It’s a gentle treat we can imagine being perfect after lunch, to cleanse the palate and help you resist the urge for calorific chocolate.

Best time of year to drink this: All year round

Best time of day to drink this: After lunch

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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: 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: Skin Glow

Ingredients: Spearmint, burdock root, echinacea, calendula, red clover

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100% organic

Price Range: £6

Bags Per Box: 20

Review: Promoted for supporting healthy skin, we were pleased to find that it’s also nice to drink. The smell is lovely, spicy with a touch of spearmint to freshen things up. The taste is heavy on the spearmint, but then you find a deeper flavour that’s slightly bitter and ‘well rooty’, as one of us described it. We think that’s the burdock.

This is one that gets better the more you drink. It delicately balances bitter with lightly sweet, and it has a pleasant aftertaste, not to mention that wonderful, wakeful feeling of spearmint in your mouth. It’s light and earthy, and a vibrant one to have in the morning. We can also imagine it being good for when you have a cold, digestive problems, or simply when you want to unwind in the evening.

As of this writing, it seems this is now quite difficult to get your hands on unless you live in Love Tea’s native Australia. We previously bought it at Planet Organic, so perhaps you can find it in a similar store near you. You can also order it online through Love Tea’s official website.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime

Best time of day to drink this: Anytime (but it would be especially good in the morning, or after a meal)

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