| | |  | Green Teas | Home » » » » Bigelow Green Tea, 40-Count Boxes (Pack of 6) | | | | | | | Description: | | Our tea bags are sealed for freshness in airtight, flavor protecting fresh packs to ensure your full enjoyment. Leave it to Mother Nature, and Bigelow! Mother Nature gave us a wonderful gift when she packed powerful antioxidants into green tea. These powerful antioxidants in green tea act as natural combatants that contribute to healthy cell integrity by absorbing harmful free radicals. More and more studies are showing that drinking 2-3 cups a day may contribute to your body's well being. But not all green tea tastes the same. Bigelow uses only the finest quality tea grown in higher-elevation gardens and hand picked at its peak. Then, we carefully process the tea to bring out it's natural, smooth flavor. The tea bags are then sealed in flavor-protecting pouches to ensure our green tea's goodness. What more can you ask for, a product that contains antioxidants and tastes great! So go ahead, enjoy a cup or two or three throughout your busy day. Bigelow Green Tea, drink it once and you'll discover a whole new dimension in green tea enjoyment. Another quality product from the Bigelow family, blenders of fine tea for three generations. Blended and packaged in the U.S.A. | | | Features: | |
• Pack of six 40-count boxes of calorie-free green tea (240 total tea bags)
• Hand-picked green tea grown in higher-elevation gardens
• Gluten free, with no calories and no carbohydrates; Kosher Parve
• An excellent source of healthy antioxidants
• Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 12.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 14.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 5.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 32 reviews |
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11 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 ExcellentAug 28, 2006
By Kurt A. Johnson
R.C. Bigelow, Inc. was begun in 1945 by Ruth Campbell Bigelow, a tea connoisseur who wanted to offer even more taste opportunities to American tea drinkers. Among the teas that Bigelow presents is their wonderful Green Tea. Green tea is now very popular, due to its antioxidants and other health benefits.
Overall, I found this to be an excellent hot tea, with a wonderful smell and taste. But, that's not all: Bilgelow's Green Tea also makes a great iced tea! So, if you are looking for a delicious and healthy green tea, one that tastes great hot and cold, then get this one! I highly recommend it. (By the way, check out the interesting recipes on Bigelow's website!)
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Great tea be aware of the packagingFeb 12, 2009
By MikeMar1955
I have been drinking bigelow tea for five years and enjoy the flavor. The 40 count packages include ten packages with four tea bags in each rather than one per package. I drink two cups a day and the teas is still fresh on the second day. When exposed to air the tea will lose its flavor. So, if you only drink two or three cups a week look for packaging with one tea bag per package.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Not individually packaged in foil and leftover stuff on bottom of cup.Dec 11, 2008
By Rachael Mei
I bought the Bigelow Green Tea after tasting how delicious the Bigelow I Love Lemon tea is. Here's a few pros and cons.
Pros:
Price wise - great price, $14.99 after 15% with Subscribe & Save and Free shipping for 240 tea bags comes out to around 6.2 cents each tea bag
Cons:
Figured they be individually wrapped like the I Love Lemon tea but it's not. These 40 count boxes are not packaged individually in foil packs but there are 4 tea bags in 1 foil pack and not resealable. Therefore, if you're not a frequent tea drinker, the tea bags might loose freshness after you open the foil pack after a few days. If you want individually packaged tea bags, you should look at the Bigelow Green Tea, 20-Count Boxes (Pack of 6).
If I leave the tea bag in my cup for more than a minute, I will see loose tea particles on the bottom of my cup, leaving the last mouthful of tea undrinkable. This problem does not happen in the I Love Lemon tea by Bigelow even if I leave the tea bag in my cup for more than 10 mins. I'm not sure if there's a same problem in the Bigelow Green Tea, 20-Count Boxes (Pack of 6) because I haven't tried that yet.
Taste wise - okay, same as any ordinary green tea.
Drink for health benefits!
14 of 19 found the following review helpful:
A very bland and uninteresting green teaNov 30, 2009
By buru buru piggu
Bigelow Green Tea is available everywhere in American supermarkets, but it's just not a very good green tea. It produces an amber-colored brew that lacks the crisp tannin flavors that should be in quality green tea. With the prominent drawing of Mount Fuji and distinctive Shinto torii (Itsukushima, a UNESCO world heritage site) on the box, you might think this is Japanese green tea. It is not. No information is listed on where it is grown, except that it is "packaged and blended in the USA".
Green tea is very good for health because of the abundance of catechins and flavinoids (antioxidant compounds) and has half the caffeine of black tea. Good Japanese green tea produces tea that is clear pale yellow-green, or very dark green, depending on the tea grade. These helpful chemicals, however, get mostly destroyed during roasting. Catechins are also responsible for the bright aroma and astringent taste of green tea, which is lacking in this product. With its brown leaf particles (see my photo comparison in gallery) and resulting brown liquid, Bigelow is more like hojicha, a roasted green tea. The flavor is very thin and I have to use 2 bags per cup of tea.
A much better quality tea is Kirkland Signature Green Tea Matcha Blend, 100% Japanese Tea Leaves, which is surprisingly good for a tea sold in non-specialty supermarkets. It is made by Ito-En, one of Japan's biggest beverage makers. I first heard about it because it is the tea used by staff at the Japanese Embassy in DC.
As for directions, the ideal temperature for green tea 70-80°C, NOT boiling (100°C) as the product description recommends. Sugar is seldom added to green tea, though it is frequently enjoyed cold.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
This is Chinese-style green tea, but not bad...Jan 10, 2010
By Mark Hanson
"dogbrains"
If you can get past the sort of false advertising in the form of the torii gate and image of Mt. Fuji on the boxes/bags, this isn't a bad *Chinese*-style green tea. (Like other reviewers have said, Japanese green tea looks green when brewed. This tea should be light amber-colored.) If you've ever had Chinese jasmine tea, just subtract the jasmine flavor and this is what you have. Like another reviewer noted, it's not a good idea to steep the bags in boiling water - even though this isn't super-delicate Japanese-style green tea, it'll still taste better if you use a slightly lower-temperature water. (Also, brewing for the full time recommended by Bigelow is probably not the best idea.) Not the best Chinese-style green tea I've ever tried, but certainly not the worst. And it's cheap! And readily-available! And takes sweeteners (and even milk) better than Japanese-style green tea (which I actually prefer but is an entirely different animal).
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