ENGLISH BREAKFAST
Cup Characteristics: A perfect breakfast tea with good body and full tea flavour notes. Coppery bright especially enticing with milk.
INGREDIENTS: Black tea
All tea pyramids are made from plant based material ( sugar cane, corn or abaca) and are both backyard compostable and biodegradable.
| Known/claimed sources of food allergy/intolerance: | Yes / No |
| Celery and products thereof: | No |
| Cereals containing gluten products thereof: | No |
| Crustaceans and products thereof: | No |
| Eggs and products thereof: | No |
| Fish and products thereof: | No |
| Lupin and products thereof: | No |
| Milk and products thereof, including lactose: | No |
| Mustard and products thereof: | No |
| Nuts and products thereof: | No |
| Peanuts and products thereof: | No |
| Sesame seeds and products thereof: | No |
| Soy and products thereof: | No |
| Sulphur dioxide and sulphites at concentrations of more than 10mg/kg expressed as SO2 (yes / no): | No |
This product meets or exceeds the food safety compliance standards covering microbiological activity, heavy metals and pesticide MRL's for the European Union, Japan, Canada, USA, and all other major tea importing countries. Metropolitan Tea undergoes annual audits for FSSC 2200, Kosher, Vegan, PIP, C-TPAT, Organic and Air Cargo Control. Biennial audits are done by CFIA and USFDA-FSMA.
Today the habit of tea drinking is inexorably linked to England despite the fact that the British were fairly late on the tea scene, in historical terms. Ironically the first mention of tea in English literature is a translation of a Dutchman's travels to the East. Tea was first brought to England via Holland on Dutch ships. As tea grew to become an 'in' beverage, the British government became quite incensed that a nation as tiny as the Netherlands could control the shipment of tea to the UK. In 1651 the British government passed the Navigation Acts, which forbade the importation of any products on non-British ships. Traders and Dutchmen, being resourceful, continued the trade in the usual manner but for one little wrinkle - the tea was transhipped in Holland onto British ships!
Early in British life tea was known as a health beverage and claimed all sorts of curative powers. In the 1650's, Garway's Coffee House proclaimed that:
"Tea makes the body active and lusty. Tea is declared to be the most wholesome;
preserving perfect health until extreme Old Age"
Afternoon tea was the invention of Anna, wife of the seventh Duke of Bedford. At the time custom dictated only two planned meals per day: a hearty breakfast and a late evening dinner. Anna in an effort to ease the mid-day "sinking feeling", began instructing her servants to prepare tea and cakes in the late afternoon. Thus began a fashionable habit, which still exists today.
Britain is steeped in tea history. Think of: High Tea, the Brown Betty, American War of Independence, Opium Wars, The Boxer Rebellion, Clipper Ship races from Fuzhou, China to Portsmouth UK, the Earl of Grey, English Breakfast etc.
Early in British life tea was known as a health beverage and claimed all sorts of curative powers. In the 1650's, Garway's Coffee House proclaimed that:
"Tea makes the body active and lusty. Tea is declared to be the most wholesome;
preserving perfect health until extreme Old Age"
Afternoon tea was the invention of Anna, wife of the seventh Duke of Bedford. At the time custom dictated only two planned meals per day: a hearty breakfast and a late evening dinner. Anna in an effort to ease the mid-day "sinking feeling", began instructing her servants to prepare tea and cakes in the late afternoon. Thus began a fashionable habit, which still exists today.
Britain is steeped in tea history. Think of: High Tea, the Brown Betty, American War of Independence, Opium Wars, The Boxer Rebellion, Clipper Ship races from Fuzhou, China to Portsmouth UK, the Earl of Grey, English Breakfast etc.