Twinings Green Tea Pear and Apple

The health benefits of green tea are now widely known. It contains a natural source of antioxidants which helps protect the body from free radicals. Recent medical research shows that regular green tea drinkers may have lower chances of heart disease and developing certain types of cancer. Other unproven scientific benefits also include stopping diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Green tea is also shown to speed up your metabolism and can help with weight loss. I love my cup of tea so with all this in mind I decided to look for some green tea. I didn't want to drink it all the time but in the evenings I wanted something a bit ...  Read the complete review

I find the Twinings green tea varieties more fully flavoured than their other herbal and fruit teas. But then again green tea is a very strong flavoured drink. In this blend apple and pear have been added in order to reduce some of the bitterness of the green tea. The result is refreshing brew with just a hint of apple and pear. I do find this combination much more palatable than drinking ordinary plain green tea. The colour should be of a light golden shade. Sugar or honey can be added to taste. Of course this is not just a tea about flavour. Green tea is marketed as having extra health benefits in comparison to normal tea. Although there is still some ...  Read the complete review

***Product Details*** Pack size: 50g (20 bags) Ingredients: Green Tea, Pear flavouring, Apple flavouring, Pear pieces, Apple pieces Price: circa 96p This is a naturally caffeine free with no preservatives or additives and a high source of antitoxidants. ***Twinings History*** Twinings claims "no one is more passionate about tea than Twinings" and with 2006 being the year they celebrated 300 years of blending Teas, who am I to argue. Twinings was one of the first companies to introduce tea to Great Britain with Thomas Twining starting selling tea to London society in 1706. This saw the beginning of a major ...  Read the complete review

I read an article recently about how Green tea is suppose to help detox your body and it can also speed up your metabolism and help you to loose weight. Whether this is true or not I was drawn in and the next time I was at Sainsburys I was in the tea and coffee aisle lookingat a huge array of different green teas. I was overwhelmed at all the different flavours and didn't have a clue where to start. I would usually go for the cheapest but I was a bit dubious to do this because I had never tried green tea before and wasn't sure if a cheaper version would be bitter and horrible. After trying to decide for around twenty minutes I ent for the Twinnings apple and ...  Read the complete review