Mixed Nuts - Fruit Tea 100 g - Café du Jour loose tea

Apple, almond, cinnamon and a pink cup

Mixed Nuts is a fruit infusion rather than a tea, and it is sold as loose tea rather than in bags. Apple pieces make up the bulk of it, chopped almonds supply the nuttiness the name promises, cinnamon warms the whole thing, and beetroot pieces do something you can see: the brew comes out a clear pink. With no tea leaf in the blend there is no caffeine either.

Contains almonds.

Brewing

A fruit infusion is one of the few things in the tea cupboard you can pour water straight off the boil over, and this one wants it: the apple and the almond need real heat before they give anything up. Allow about 2 g per cup, roughly a level teaspoon, and give it five to eight minutes. The far end of that range is where the cinnamon comes forward and the beetroot has had time to colour the cup properly.

Cold, two ways

For iced tea, brew it at roughly double strength, let it cool and pour it over ice; a slice of lemon sharpens it up nicely. For cold brew, leave the tea to steep in the fridge for four to twelve hours, depending on how strong you want it to come out. The almond and cinnamon hold up cold better than most fruit blends do.

Key details

• Type: loose fruit infusion, free of caffeine
• Net weight: 100 g
• Ingredients: apple pieces, chopped almonds, cinnamon, natural flavouring, beetroot pieces
• Contains almonds
• Brewing: about 2 g per cup, boiling water, 5 to 8 minutes
• Blended and packed in the Netherlands

For a blend built on leaves and flowers instead of fruit, look at the herbal tea range.