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Twinings Tea English Breakfast - 40 Tea Bags

Original price $14.99 - Original price $14.99
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$14.99
$14.99 - $14.99
Current price $14.99

About our best-before dates

We work hard to bring proper British groceries to Canada, but importing food across an ocean is not as tidy as stocking a supermarket shelf down the road.

Some products arrive with long dates. Some arrive with shorter ones. Different products come through the import process with different shelf lives, so the dates are not always as neat or predictable as they would be in a regular Canadian supermarket.

Most online grocery shops do not show best-before dates unless something is getting close. We do it differently.

If you were shopping in our Halifax store, you could pick up the product, turn it over, and check the date before buying. We think our online customers should get that same level of transparency.

That is why we show best-before dates clearly on our products.

What "best before" actually means

A best-before date is about quality — flavour, texture, freshness, and how the product is expected to be at its best.

It is not the same as a "use by" or expiry date, which only appears on certain regulated foods.

For everyday groceries like chocolate, biscuits, crisps, sweets, tea, sauces, jams, and pantry items, the best-before date is a quality marker, not a safety marker.

Why our dates vary so much

British imports are unpredictable. We do not get to choose every date that arrives in Canada, and different products naturally come with different shelf lives.

A jar of sauce may have months or years on it. A bag of crisps might arrive with a much shorter window and still be completely normal for that type of product.

We check dates, show them clearly, and give you the information before you buy — because that is how it should be.

What the colours mean

  • More than 30 days remaining
  • Within 30 days
  • Within 5 days, or past the best-before date

The product page will still show the actual date, so you can decide what works for you.

Why some customers like shorter dates

Many of our regular customers deliberately shop shorter-dated items when the price makes sense.

A chocolate bar with two weeks left is often every bit as good as one with six months left — and if we can pass on a saving instead of letting perfectly good food go to waste, everyone wins.

It is not about cutting corners. It is about being clear, fair, and sensible with stock that has travelled a long way to get here.

Questions about a specific product? Email help@thegreatbritishshop.ca — we read every message.

Availability:
In stock — ships from Canada

★ 4.8/5 shop rating from customers across Canada

 
More about this product

Buy Twinings Tea English Breakfast - 40 Tea Bags in Canada

Twinings Tea English Breakfast - 40 Tea Bags is the sort of tea that gets the day moving without needing a speech about it. Proper body, a rounded cup, and enough character to feel like breakfast tea should.

This is the box for people who like their tea steady, familiar, and not remotely interested in herbal theatrics. It is golden, full-bodied, and very good at becoming part of the routine.

If English Breakfast is your default setting, this one will make immediate sense. It has that reliable, no-fuss quality that tends to earn a permanent place in the cupboard.

Available in Canada from The Great British Shop, this is the genuine UK version, made in the UK for customers after proper British tea & hot drinks. Twinings Tea English Breakfast - 40 Tea Bags is simply a solid cup of tea, which is more useful than sounding impressive.

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No Sugar Added

Ingredients and Nutritional Information

Ingredients

100% Black Tea.

Allergens: No allergen statement provided.

Product information is correct at the time of posting. As products may change, please check the label upon delivery for the most accurate ingredient and allergen information.

Nutritional Information

Based on a black tea brewed with 200ml water for 3 minutes.

Typical values Per 100ml Brewed Black Tea (without milk)
Energy 3kJ / 1 kcal
Fat 0g
of which saturates 0g
Carbohydrate 0g
of which sugars 0g
Protein 0g
Salt 0g
Ingrédients et valeurs nutritionnelles (Français)

Ingrédients

100% thé noir.

Allergènes : Aucune déclaration d'allergènes fournie.

Les informations sur le produit sont exactes au moment de la publication. Les produits pouvant changer, veuillez vérifier l’étiquette à la réception pour obtenir les informations les plus récentes sur les ingrédients et les allergènes.

Valeurs nutritionnelles

Basé sur un thé noir infusé avec 200ml d'eau pendant 3 minutes.

Valeurs typiques Par 100ml de thé noir infusé (sans lait)
Énergie 3kJ / 1 kcal
Matières grasses 0g
dont saturés 0g
Glucides 0g
dont sucres 0g
Protéines 0g
Sel 0g
More About Twinings Tea English Breakfast - 40 Tea Bags

Twinings Tea English Breakfast - 40 Tea Bags is a black tea blend with a golden, well-rounded cup, plenty of body, and a lighter finish than some heavier breakfast teas. The blend brings together Assam, African teas, and high-grown Ceylon, and it is blended and packed in Hampshire for a proper British tea & hot drinks staple.

Available in Canada from The Great British Shop, Twinings Tea English Breakfast - 40 Tea Bags is the genuine UK version for customers who want proper British tea rather than a vague imitation. It ships from within Canada and can be ordered online in Canada as part of a larger British groceries order or simply because the tea tin has gone alarmingly quiet.

For customers in Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford, and Truro, this is exactly the sort of everyday brew that earns repeat orders. The same goes for shoppers in Toronto, Mississauga, Ottawa, and Montreal looking to buy authentic British food in Canada with a proper box of breakfast tea included.

Twinings Tea English Breakfast - 40 Tea Bags also makes sense for orders heading to Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg, where reliable British groceries in Canada tend to be about getting the exact product you know. Out west in Vancouver, Victoria, and Surrey, it fits neatly into the kind of order built around genuine UK cupboard standards.

If you are searching for Twinings Tea English Breakfast - 40 Tea Bags, British tea in Canada, or authentic British food in Canada, this is an easy one to recognise. Full-bodied, straightforward, and made in the UK, it is the sort of tea The Great British Shop keeps for people who expect a proper cup rather than an interesting experiment.

Additional Information

Packaging Accuracy

We always do our best to keep product information as accurate and up to date as possible. From time to time, manufacturers change packaging, ingredients, nutritional information, allergen advice, pack sizes, or branding without much notice. Because of that, the product you receive may look slightly different from the images shown online.

If anything important changes, we update our listings as quickly as we can. If you have a question about ingredients, allergens, or a specific product before ordering, please get in touch and we will gladly check it for you.

Transparent Online Pricing

We believe in being upfront about pricing. Some products are priced higher online than they are in-store, especially heavier items, fragile goods, or products that are more expensive to pack and ship safely across Canada.

That difference is not there to catch anyone out. It reflects the real cost of getting British food to customers properly, whether you are ordering from Toronto, Halifax, Dartmouth, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Mississauga, Montréal, Victoria, Winnipeg, Windsor, Bedford, Saint John, Charlottetown, Kitchener, Carleton Place, London, Burlington, Etobicoke, or somewhere smaller in between.

We would rather be transparent about that than hide the reality in vague terms. Proper service, careful packing, and honest pricing matter to us, and we would rather explain the cost clearly than build it into the experience in a way that feels misleading.

Weather, Melting & Freezing Risk

Some products carry a higher risk during transit in extreme weather. In warmer months, chocolate and other heat-sensitive items may soften or melt. In colder months, drinks and certain products may freeze, leak, or become damaged in transit.

We do what we reasonably can to reduce that risk. Liquids are packed in sealed protective bags to help protect the rest of your order if a bottle leaks or bursts. During summer, we may add ice packs to chocolate orders or take extra packing precautions where possible. Even so, there is no way to fully guarantee that heat-sensitive or cold-sensitive products will arrive unaffected during extreme weather.

We are clear about that because we would rather be honest than make promises we cannot always control. Your trust matters to us, and we try to be transparent about how we price, pack, and ship every order.

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