Hello, friends! Today, the theme of our tasting will be Green Tea “Lipton Mandarin Orange”. The brand is quite famous and “promoted”. Let’s see if the manufacturer will disappoint us!
1. Product: Green Baykhovy flavored “Lipton Mandarin Orenge” with citrus fruits
2. Manufacturer: Unile Rus LLC, g. Moscow, st. Sergey Makeeva, 13, Russia. Production capacity:. St. Petersburg, st. Graduate, 1, Russia. Importer to Ukraine: UNILEYER LLC Ukraine, g. Kyiv, st. Degtyarevskaya, 27t
Note the same manufacturer as the Calve mayonnaise, which we recently tasted.
3. Place of purchase: “Bimarket”, st. Lebedeva-Kumach, 2/6
4. Buying date: 27.02.2013
5. Product price: 16.05 UAH.
6. Composition: Green Baykhovy Tea, Mandarin flavor, orange and maracui identical to natural, mandarin and orange crusts.
In principle, the composition could be considered ideal if it were not for flavorings, because to give the aroma and the appropriate taste would be enough crusts. The flavors are identical to natural, that is, artificial, that nothing good for our body, of course, promises…
7. Food value (in 100g): –
8. Energy value (calorie content) in 100g: –
Apparently, from the point of view of the manufacturer, information about the nutritional value of the product does not carry any semantic load, and therefore, why indicate it?! After conducting a small “study” of the Internet, we found that on average green caning tea contains 0g proteins, 0.47 g of carbohydrates and 0 g of fat. Energy value of about 2 kcal. Trifle, but still… We found information, but we will not forget about the defect in the marking ..
9. Marking. The composition of the product, its mass, TU, storage conditions, shelf life and information about the manufacturer – all these data are applied to the label. The date of production and packaging is highlighted in a red square and clearly visible at the end of the box. There are no problems here. In addition to not making information about the value of the product, there are no more shortcomings.
You need to dwell on one more moment. In an article on choosing tea, we wrote that Ceylon and tea from Sri Lanka should have an appropriate logo on the package, which confirms that the leaves were collected and packaged in India or Sri Lanka. There is no such logo on this tea. Many will be interested in this fact. But! The manufacturer does not claim that their tea is called “Ceylon” or “Indian”, because it indicates on the package that tea was “packaged” in Russia. Thanks for the truth! Now many domestic manufacturers are positioning their product as really Ceylon, for example, and even write that it is packed in Sri Lanka, but do not have a corresponding logo. We are just deceiving!
10. Net mass (on packaging): 36g (-9%)
11. Gross weight in fact: 40g weight gross green tea lipton
12. The mass of packaging (one bag): < 1g
The pure mass of one bag without contents does not exceed one gram. We have a minimum division on the scales – 1 gram, so we will not be able to find out how much bag weighs in tenths of grams. We will not assume. Therefore, we will not evaluate the product by mass today, we will need that the manufacturer is honest.
13. Type and aroma. Tea is neatly packaged in bags, “gutting” which we found pieces of the skin indicated on the label of fruit.
The aroma of unwavated tea is practically absent, it is extremely difficult to “sniff” fruit notes. But after brewing, flavors enter the game, thanks to which the drink acquires a rich aroma. The color of this green tea straw-golden.
14. Taste. To taste ordinary green tea, notes of mandarin or maracui are caught with difficulty. It is extremely difficult to name a rich and pronounced taste.
Let us put our grades to the green “Lipton Mandarin Orange”.
1. Marking – 8.
2. Composition (the presence of harmful and prohibited ingredients) – 7.
3. Mass compliance – – – .
4. View and aroma – 9.
5. Taste – 6.
