Organic Brazilian green maté in a herbal blend — the cleanest-tasting and most austere of the range, with none of the fruit or spice of the others.
About the name
We would rather be straightforward here than sell you something. "Detox" describes how the blend tastes — herbal, green, faintly bitter, unsweetened — not what it does to you. Under European food law, detox is not an authorised health claim, and we are not making one. Your liver and kidneys do that work continuously and do not need assistance from a drink.
What a blend like this genuinely offers is more prosaic and still worth having: a hot, unsweetened drink with no sugar and no additives in it, which is a straightforwardly better thing to have three cups of than most alternatives, and which encourages you to drink more fluid through the day. If that is what you are after, it does the job well.
What maté is
The leaves of Ilex paraguariensis, a South American holly. Not tea, and not a caffeine-free herbal infusion — it contains caffeine, roughly between a cup of tea and a weak coffee per serving. This is green Brazilian maté, dried without smoke, so it is grassy and clean rather than smoky.
Brewing it
80 °C, never boiling. Boiling water scalds the leaf and produces a harsh bitterness — and with no fruit or spice in this blend to hide behind, it shows more here than anywhere else in the range. Boil the kettle and let it stand two or three minutes.
A teaspoon to a tablespoon per mug, five minutes, re-infusing up to three times.
Worth knowing
Let it cool below about 65 °C before drinking. The health concerns associated with maté relate to drinking it scalding hot rather than to the plant itself.
Contains caffeine. In pregnancy the guidance is under 200 mg a day from all sources.