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Flavour: Deliciously Ginger

Ingredients: Ginger (85%), lemongrass (10%), turmeric (5%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100% organic

Price Range: £2.50

Bags Per Box: 16

Review: It smells…gingery! Just as we’d hope. The flavour is actual ginger root. We mean that it isn’t sweet; it’s more like dry ginger pieces. It’s fresh and cleansing, fiery but also soothing. There’s a nice kick to it when you swallow it down, and we can easily imagine having this on a chilly autumn evening, to help us wind down and aid digestion.

Best time of year to drink this: Autumn

Best time of day to drink this: After dinner

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Flavour: Spiced Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients: Apple bits (apple, acidifier, citric acid), pumpkin bits (10%), carrot bits, candied papaya bits (papaya, sugar), ginger bits, flavouring, turmeric, pumpkin seeds (3.5%), bean peels, cinnamon sticks, safflower blossoms

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: £10

Tin Size: 125g

Our Review: Bean peels…??? Crazy! The smell is savoury, like a curry plant rather than tea or even fruit…although there is a hint of citrusy sweetness buried deep, deep, deep underneath. The taste is very pumpkin-like, and strong on spice. So it definitely does what it says on the tin. But…is that a good thing?? It is so unusual, and not really the kind of thing you’d want to drink. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if they ditched the fruit. It doesn’t quite mix with the pumpkin. The taste is so strong that it slaps you in the face. It’s sharp and tinged with artificial flavours. It’s very rich and indulgent and not something you could drink every day. We ended up throwing it away (but keeping the beautiful tin!), because we could find no one who wanted to drink it. That said…it’s so odd that someone out there might actually enjoy it in a way that we didn’t. So it’s not an avoid…but you have to be prepared for it.

Best time of year to drink this: Autumn

Best time of day to drink this: Afternoon

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Flavour: Feisty Turmeric Guru

Ingredients: Ginger, turmeric, lemongrass, liquorice, lemon peel, clove, natural lemon flavour, natural ginger flavour

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: All organic except the flavouring

Price Range: £4

Bags Per Box: 15

Review: Lemongrass again…so, it smells like cleaning products, this time mixed with the savoury aroma of turmeric. It’s a drink that makes you think of dinner time. Unfortunately, the flavour leaves much to be desired. Even if you leave the bag in for a long time, the taste never really develops. It’s incredibly watery, with a hint of turmeric. There’s a slight fiery kick, but it’s very brief, and then nothing. It’s not awful. It’s just pointless, especially for the price.

Best time of year to drink this: Whenever

Best time of day to drink this: Whenever

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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: Turmeric Active

Ingredients: Turmeric root (30%), ginger root (26%), galangal root (14%), liquorice root, nettle leaf, celery seed, burdock root, orange essential oil flavour, triphala fruits (amla, bibhitaki, haritaki)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 20

Our Review: Not contented with just one turmeric blend, Pukka added this one to the market. And did we need another one? Turns out: yes! This is a totally different animal.

The aroma is lightly orangey with only a hint of the turmeric this blend is named for. You can definitely taste the turmeric when you drink it, but there’s a definite fruity undertone, and a bit of gingery warmth. The other ingredients don’t stand out but blend together to give an overall soothing experience. While their Turmeric Glow blend is 20% green tea, this one is caffeine-free; and despite its name, it feels more relaxing than wakeful. It’s lovely and gentle, and a great one to have in the autumn when the leaves are falling and it’s starting to get cold. It’s also chock full of herbs traditionally used to tackle symptoms of seasonal illness.

Best time of year to drink this: Any time, but especially when it’s cold out

Best time of day to drink this: Evening

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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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Flavour: Throat Comfort

Ingredients: Liquorice root (32%), fennel seed (23%), cinnamon bark, orange peel, thyme, cardamom, ginger root, mullein leaf, cloves, black pepper, turmeric, citrus extract, orange extract

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 17

Review: This is a great one if you have a cold. It’s chock full of herbs traditionally used to sooth a sore throat, and if you drink this alongside their Breathe Deep blend, you’re sorted.

That said, we wouldn’t touch it if we weren’t ill. It smells medicinal and antiseptic, and the flavour is so sweet. We also don’t find it as effective or as pleasant as Tisane dal Mondo’s Respiro infusion. That one temporarily relieves a cough after just one cup, while Throat Comfort soothes but leaves you hacking away. So if you’re happy to order imported tea online, we recommend that blend over this. If you’re looking for something you’ll find in mainstream UK shops, Throat Comfort is a good one to keep in the cupboard for when you need it.

Best time of year to drink this: Anytime – more likely winter

Best time of day to drink this: Most times of day, but especially later, after meals, because it’s just so sweet

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Flavour: Turmeric Glow

Ingredients: Turmeric root (40%), pin ho wild jade green tea (20%), liquorice root, cardamom pod, lemon essential oil flavour (6%), lemon whole (6%), lemon verbena leaf

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 20

Our Review: When this first came out, there was quite a trend for turmeric blends. We saw loads of them inundate the market seemingly overnight. Not all of them worked, but this one really does. Turmeric is growing in popularity due to its anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties. Taste-wise, it works well in tea because it’s a little like ginger (being in the same family), but milder.

This blend smells a little like an Indian savoury dish. It tastes a little like one, too. We couldn’t taste the green tea at all, which makes it a great way to get the health benefits and wake-up effect of that tea but without the bitterness. It’s nice and smooth, citrusy and a touch spicy – and it just might do the trick if you’ve got the mid-morning munchies but don’t want the calories. But be careful not to spill any. Turmeric stains!

Best time of year to drink this: Any time, but especially when it’s cold out

Best time of day to drink this: Mid-morning and mid-afternoon, in place of calorific snacks

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Flavour: Benessere

Ingredients: Orange rind, carrot and turmeric

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-Free

Organic Ingredients: Unknown

Price Range: €3.00 (plus overseas shipping)

Bags Per Box: 20

Our Review: Another one brought back to us from Italy. This was an intriguing one – intensely yellowy orange in colour, and it smells just like a smoothie…but hot. It was a bit strange, but intriguing!

The flavour, however, is like drinking an orange Creamsicle: a type of orangey ice lolly filled with vanilla ice cream. For whatever reason, this tea is very sweet. You can’t taste much of the carrot or turmeric for the orange rind.

At the same time, the overall flavour is quite weak, like watered down orange juice. It’s pleasant enough, but we prefer a stronger taste. We wish it included ginger rather than turmeric, as that would give it the kick we think it needs. But some people want a milder tea, so if that’s you, then this is worth a try, especially on a cold evening.

Best time of year to drink this: Winter

Best time of day to drink this: Afternoon / evening

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Flavour: Lemon, Ginger & Manuka Honey

Description: A welcoming cup of spicy sweet organic bliss

Ingredients: Ginger root (32%), licorice root, elderflower, fennel seed, lemon verbena leaf, turmeric root, lemon essential oil, lemon myrtle leaf, whole lemon (4%), manuka honey flavour (2%)

Caffeine Factor: Caffeine-free

Organic Ingredients: 100%

Price Range: £2-3

Bags Per Box: 20

Review: When you first brew this infusion, it smells just like Pukka Three Ginger.  The taste, however, is different.  It’s like Three Ginger, but with a lingering artificial aftertaste, a bit like soursop (probably because of the manuka honey flavouring).  It doesn’t help that it’s chock full of all those lemony plants that are 100% real, yet taste like they were cooked up in a laboratory.

That said, this is probably a good one if you have a cold, to act as an antiseptic and a throat soother; so this blend has its place, even if we don’t fancy it as a casual treat.

Best time of year to drink this: Colder months, when you feel a bit poorly

Best time of day to drink this: Anytime, really – it works as a morning wake-up drink (because of the lemon), but it’s also soothing in the evening

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