Anyone who drinks tea will tell you that there is a HUGE difference between teabags and loose leaf tea. That is because teabags are usually filled with low grades of tea – usually tea dust, brokens or fannings (these refer to tea where the leaves have been crushed to dust or ‘broken’ to be very small and ‘minced’ which destroys a lot of the flavour but makes it possible to package the tea in a teabag).

Looseleaf tea is far superior to teabag tea and most high-quality, premium teas are only sold in this form (because the leaves are too big to fit inside teabags, even some of the large ‘pyramid’ tea bags available nowadays).

If you’re looking for some really high-quality green tea, check out one of our favourites: The Jade of Bengal | Single-Estate Darjeeling Green Tea