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Tea

Brand	Rating (out of 20)
Equal Exchange tea [F,O]	17
Hampstead Tea & Coffee Co tea [F,O]	17
Purely Organic tea [F,O]	17
Steenbergs English breakfast tea [F,O]	17
Dragonfly organic teas [O]	15
Teadirect tea [F]	15
Traidcraft tea [F]	15
Baraka Chai tea	14
Brooke Bond tea	14
Kericho Gold tea	14
Teadirect organic tea [F,O]	14
Clipper fair trade tea [F]	13
Clipper organic tea [O]	13
Ridgways organic tea [O]	12.5
Taylors of Harrogate breakfast tea [F]	12.5
Whittard tea	12.5
Clipper tea	12
Typhoo tea	11.5
Yorkshire Tea tea	11.5
Quickbrew tea	5.5
Tetley organic tea [O]	5
Tetley tea	4
Twinings organic tea [O]	3
Jacksons of Piccadilly organic tea [O]	2
Jacksons of Piccadilly tea	2
Twinings tea	2
Lipton organic tea [O]	1
Lipton tea	1
PG Tips tea	1
Tchae tea	1


[A] = Animal Welfare	[E] = Positive Environmental Features
[F] = Fair Trade	[O] = Organic	[S] = Other Sustainability

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