Calm down! (Twinings)

Member Name: SusanLesley

Product:	Twinings
Date:	27/05/02 (206 review reads)
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Advantages: Good price, No caffeine, Taste OK

Disadvantages: Aquired taste

As most of you will have gathered by now we are in the throes of house moving. We are selling our house here in the Midlands and moving to North Wales. My parents will then also sell up and come and join us.

Stressed? Me? Of course I am bloody stressed!!!!! Wouldn't you be?

Seriously though, I do suffer from stress at the best of times and moving house is supposed to be one of the most stressful experiences of one's life, so I am getting a bit tetchy from time to time. When Dave reads this he'll say 'Is that what you call it?'

In order to try and help to combat said stress I decided to try herbal tea and I chose Twinings Cranberry, Raspberry and Elderflower for my first foray into the world of herbal teas.

Twinings do produce a range of herbal infusions from peppermint to camomile and orange to spearmint.

I bought a box of 20 tea bags or 'herbal infusions' as they are described on the box which cost me 0.83p and I had a voucher for 20p off any herbal tea at Tesco's, which may have had something to do with the fact that I actually decided to try them!

The way to prepare the infusion is to put one tea bag in your mug and add freshly boiled water. You then leave the tea bag to infuse for 3 to 5 minutes, depending on how strong you would like the taste to be, remove the tea bag and drink the resulting concoction.

You can either drink it hot or leave it to go cold, and you can add honey to sweeten it if you need it. The only unusual thing (compared to ordinary tea) about it is that you do not add milk.

As it is infusing it smells delicious as the aroma of the various fruits pervades the air in the kitchen. The liquid turns a light red in colour, but since the bag contains raspberry and cranberry I suppose it would wouldn't it?

As for the taste I would say it is what is known as an acquired taste, especially if you are a tea drinker as I am. I do love a cu
p of ordinary common or garden tea - milk, no sugar, so this was somewhat of a culture shock to me.

I enjoyed the actual taste but it isn't something I would crave. I usually drink it hot or warm but I intend to try it cold with ice and sprigs of fresh mint if we should get any hot summer days, as I expect that would improve the flavour a lot. I'll try and remember to return to this opinion and let you know.

The tea bags contain the following ingredients:
Hibiscus
Rosehips
Apple Pieces
Elderflowers (8%)
Cranberry Flavouring
Liquorice Root
Raspberry Flavouring
Cranberry Pieces (1%)
Raspberry Pieces (1%)

All the infusions are caffeine free and is described on the box as 'the uplifting blend to revive and refresh'. I can't say that I felt any particular benefits from drinking this infusion, but I certainly didn't have any ill effects either and surely the fact that it contains no caffeine can't be a bad thing for my stress levels!

It is blended and packed using imported ingredients by

R Twining and Company Limited
South Way
Andover
Hampshire

All in all I would certainly buy this product again, but it wouldn't be something that I would want to drink all the while.

I shall be trying one or two of the other flavours to see if they're any different in their effects on me - I'll let you know how I get on.

By the way I will just add that having to go through every opinion I submit and retype every apostrophe so that the Dooyoo software doesn't print it as a question mark does nothing for my stress levels!!

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