Mango & Strawberry Tea — MUNCH

Munch or Dump rates Mango & Strawberry Tea by TWININGS MUNCH — score 80/90.

A plain unsweetened herbal infusion of hibiscus, rosehips and orange botanicals with natural flavouring — no sugar, no oil, no artificial additives. Brewed it's basically flavoured water at 2 kcal a cup.

Why this verdict

• Short, recognizable list of dried botanicals — hibiscus, rosehips, orange peel
• No added sugar, no refined oil, no emulsifiers, nothing artificial
• Brews to about 2 kcal per cup — essentially flavoured water
• Naturally caffeine-free with a trace of antioxidants from hibiscus and rosehips

Ingredients (7)

• hibiscus (safe) — Lead ingredient in four of five blends — a whole botanical that supplies the tart, red base.
• Orange Leaves (safe) — Dried botanical used for citrus aroma; inert and harmless brewed.
• Natural Strawberry Flavouring With Other Natural Flavouring (moderate) — Flavour extract that does a lot of the heavy lifting here; 'natural' but unspecified, so the exact source isn't disclosed.
• natural flavouring (moderate) — Undefined flavour compound; 'natural' but unspecified, a minor processing marker.
• Orange Peel (safe) — Whole citrus peel, purely aromatic.
• Rosehips (safe) — Dried rose fruit, a traditional vitamin-C-rich tisane ingredient.
• Liquorice Root (moderate) — Contains glycyrrhizin, which can raise blood pressure and lower potassium if consumed in excess. Hence the hypertension warning.