English Breakfast black tea

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Black tea (100%) Start your day with a good dose of tea to leave the house wide awake! Strong and forceful, alone or with milk, you will start the morning well with the variety of tea that contains the most tea.

Black tea known as “English Breakfast” is a mixture of different types of black tea, such as Assam tea, Ceylon tea and Kenyan tea. This blend is characterized by being strong, full-bodied, robust and consistent, with enough character not to be overshadowed by the power of a typical English breakfast (which may include eggs with bacon and beans or toast with jam). In addition to its strength on the palate, it is a tea especially recommended for breakfast due to its stimulating properties, so necessary at the beginning of the day.

Although it is not known with certainty who created this mixture, it is believed that it was an English merchant installed in New York, trying to replicate a tea that was drunk in England to sell it in the United States, where this strategy was successful and became popular very quickly. Another theory indicates that the beginnings of this tea mixture originated in Scotland, where it was simply called “Breakfast tea”, since it was what people drank to accompany breakfast and it became popular in the rest of England thanks to the queen. Victory.

English Breakfast tea provides the properties of a black tea, such as moderate-high caffeine content, theaflavins and thearubigins that provide astringency in the flavor and add antioxidant, anticancer, antiseptic and cardioprotective properties. It also contains minerals such as fluoride, calcium, iron and manganese, and provides vitamins B2, C and E.