Ingredients: Gunpowder style green tea, calendula petals, sunflower petals, natural vanilla flavouring

Cup Characteristics: Sweet flavour vanilla gives this green tea a depth and character. The aroma almost shouts 'Welcome Home'

Options: Add organic honey or rock sugar if you like

Benefit: This tea is rich in polyphenols, which are strong antioxidants that help improve your health and keep disease away. Some of the health benefits of gunpowder green tea include helping to fight heart disease, arthritis, and immune system issues.

Fun to know: Vanilla is one powerful commodity. The Spanish added it to drinking chocolate, but it would be an American who would use vanilla to create a beverage that would take the world by storm. What beverage? You may have heard of it…Coca Cola? The original 1885 recipe relied on Vanilla for an exotic touch and we all know what happened from there, Coca Cola became a global phenomenon the likes of which the world had never seen.

Well, instead of adding vanilla to coke, we play it with teas, which is obviously a much healthier choice. We’ve flavoured premium, high grown Hyson gunpowder from Sri Lanka with pure vanilla extract to create a cup that is light liquoring and intensely refreshing with astringent notes of orchid and honey. A wonderful cup – 3 cups is reported to have the vitamin C content of an orange!