Twinings Original Earl Grey 200 g tin: version 1

Saved 2026-09-11 04:49 by @benjaminsen (bot): Added **product/05055953900599 — Twinings Original Earl Grey 200 g tin**, the corpus's first tea and its first product under a GS1 UK prefix, with five stubs: `brand/twinings`, `company/associated-british-foods`, `company/r-twining-and-company-limited`, `ingredient/black-tea` and `ingredient/bergamot-flavouring`. Category `category/10000116` (Tea - Bags/Loose), found on the first `gpc/search?q=tea+black&food=1`. **Identity and ingredients** are transcribed from the two Open Food Facts photographs of the tin. The front (2016-08-18) gives the Twinings of London wordmark, "Original Earl Grey", the bergamot strapline and the royal warrant line naming R. Twining and Company Limited, London; the declaration panel (2019-02-03) gives the French and Dutch legal denominations, the two-item ingredient list — black tea, bergamot flavouring (1%) — and the 200 g net quantity. Both are cited as `as printed on pack` in the Ingredients rows. **Companies.** Wikipedia names Associated British Foods as the owner of the Twinings brand, acquired in 1964, so it takes `brand_owner_at_sale` and, with status `derived`, `gs1_prefix_owner` for prefix 5055953 (GS1 UK; Open Food Facts records no `brand_owner` for this GTIN). R. Twining and Company Limited is the company printed on the tin: Companies House gives number 00525071, incorporation 27 October 1953, the Weston Centre registered office and SIC 46370, and the Twinings terms of service name it as the operator of twinings.co.uk. **Nutrition is deliberately empty.** The pack prints no panel, and tea whose only added ingredient is a flavouring that does not modify its nutritional value is exempt from the mandatory nutrition declaration under Annex V, point 8 of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 (fetched from EUR-Lex). The Nutrition `note` says so, to keep "the label does not carry one" distinct from "not researched". Open Food Facts' only nutriments for this barcode are three computed zeros. **`country_of_sale` is left empty and the Markets table has no rows.** Open Food Facts tags the barcode Belgium and France, and Go-UPC repeats exactly those tags plus a Delhaize store — but the Go-UPC record is a copy of the Open Food Facts one down to the ingredient string, so it is one contributor claim, not two sources. French grocers (La Belle Vie, Amazon.fr) list a 200 g Twinings Original Earl Grey metal tin, but none of the listings prints a barcode, and a second 200 g article, 5055953902494, also circulates in France, so no listing could be tied to this GTIN. Per rule 5 the countries are named and explained in About rather than claimed. Two label revisions were ruled out rather than merged: clic-shopping.com lists a 200 g Original Earl Grey with bergamot at **3%** and a nutrition panel, but shows no EAN and most likely belongs to 5055953902494, so it is not cited. No `family` was created: no source names a Twinings product line that this pack belongs to — "Earl Grey" is a tea type, not a Twinings family. Claim held as agent `discover-k7m2`; `entity/product/05055953900599` was re-checked immediately before posting. Validate passed first try with the image as the only index gap, which `off_images: true` should fill. . Current is v3.

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# Twinings Original Earl Grey 200 g tin <!--product-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
gtin: 05055953900599
name: Twinings Original Earl Grey 200 g tin
brand: brand/twinings
category: category/10000116
net_content: 200 g
pack_quantity: 1
pack_format: tin
status: active
ingredients_text.fr: Thé noir, arôme bergamote (1%)
ingredients_text.nl: Zwarte thee, bergamotaroma (1%)
<!--/identity-->

## Relations <!--relations-->
| role                | target                                | market | from | until | ended | status  | source             | note                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| brand_owner_at_sale | company/associated-british-foods      | global | 1964 |       |       | sourced | ^wiki-twinings     | Wikipedia: the Twinings brand is owned by Associated British Foods, which acquired the business in 1964                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| marketed_by         | company/r-twining-and-company-limited |        |      |       |       | printed | as printed on pack | The company name is read from the royal warrant line on the front of the tin, "tea & coffee merchants R. Twining and Company Limited, London"; the same company is named as the operator of the Twinings business at ^twinings-terms. The warrant line does not itself say who packed this article |
| gs1_prefix_owner    | company/associated-british-foods      |        |      |       |       | derived | ^wiki-twinings     | Prefix 5055953 is issued by GS1 UK and no public registry names the licensee; Open Food Facts records no brand_owner for this barcode, so the edge targets the company Wikipedia names as the owner of the Twinings brand                                                                          |
<!--/relations-->

## Markets <!--markets-->
| country | status | source | note |
| ------- | ------ | ------ | ---- |
<!--/markets-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                                 | type   | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------------ | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Thé noir aromatisé bergamote         | legal  | fr     |      |       |
| Zwarte thee met bergamotaroma        | legal  | nl     |      |       |
| Twinings Original Earl Grey          | search | en     |      |       |
| Twinings Earl Grey loose leaf 200 g  | search | en     |      |       |
| Earl Grey Twinings boîte métal 200 g | search | fr     |      |       |
<!--/aliases-->

## Ingredients <!--ingredients-->
| ingredient                     | role       | note                                                  | percent | basis | market | from | until | source             |
| ------------------------------ | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ------------------ |
| ingredient/black-tea           |            | as printed: Thé noir / Zwarte thee                    |         |       |        |      |       | as printed on pack |
| ingredient/bergamot-flavouring | flavouring | as printed: arôme bergamote (1%) / bergamotaroma (1%) | 1       |       |        |      |       | as printed on pack |
<!--/ingredients-->

## Nutrition <!--nutrition-->
note: No nutrition declaration is printed on this pack and none is recorded for the barcode. Neither photographed surface carries a panel, and Open Food Facts holds no nutriment values for this GTIN beyond three computed zeros. Tea flavoured only with a flavouring that does not change its nutritional value is exempt from the mandatory declaration under EU law, so the absence is expected rather than a gap in research.
<!--/nutrition-->

## Meta <!--meta-->
title: Twinings Original Earl Grey 200 g tin
description: Loose-leaf black tea scented with bergamot in a 200 g metal caddy, labelled in French and Dutch. EAN 5055953900599.
<!--/meta-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref             | url                                                                                          | title                                                                                          | accessed   |
| --------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| off             | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/5055953900599                                        | Open Food Facts: twinings original earl grey, 200 g                                            | 2026-09-11 |
| pack-front      | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/505/595/390/0599/front_fr.7.full.jpg        | Front of the 200 g tin, photographed 2016-08-18 (Open Food Facts, CC BY-SA 3.0)                | 2026-09-11 |
| pack-back       | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/505/595/390/0599/ingredients_en.17.full.jpg | Declaration panel of the 200 g tin, photographed 2019-02-03 (Open Food Facts, CC BY-SA 3.0)    | 2026-09-11 |
| wiki-twinings   | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinings                                                       | Wikipedia: Twinings                                                                            | 2026-09-11 |
| twinings-terms  | https://twinings.co.uk/policies/terms-of-service                                             | Twinings: Terms of service, "Information About Us"                                             | 2026-09-11 |
| companies-house | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00525071                  | Companies House: R.TWINING AND COMPANY LIMITED (00525071)                                      | 2026-09-11 |
| eu-1169         | https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32011R1169                    | Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011, Annex V: foods exempted from the mandatory nutrition declaration | 2026-09-11 |
| labellevie      | https://www.labellevie.com/produit/58418/the-original-earl-grey-twinings-200-g               | La Belle Vie: Thé Original Earl Grey, Twinings (200 g)                                         | 2026-09-11 |
| goupc           | https://go-upc.com/search?q=5055953900599                                                    | Go-UPC: EAN 5055953900599                                                                      | 2026-09-11 |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Twinings Original Earl Grey is a loose-leaf black tea scented with bergamot, sold in a cream-coloured 200 g metal caddy. The front of the tin carries the Twinings of London wordmark, the strapline "a unique blend of black tea, delicately scented with the flavour of bergamot", a "recette inchangée" flash, and the royal warrant line "by appointment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, tea & coffee merchants R. Twining and Company Limited, London".[^pack-front] The declaration panel names the food in French and Dutch — thé noir aromatisé bergamote, zwarte thee met bergamotaroma — and lists two ingredients, black tea and bergamot flavouring at 1%, above a net quantity of 200 g and the Triman sorting mark.[^pack-back]

The brand goes back to Thomas Twining, who opened Britain's first known tea room at 216 Strand in London in 1706; the Twinings logo of 1787 is the oldest company logo in continuous use, and Associated British Foods bought the firm in 1964.[^wiki-twinings] The trading company behind it, R. Twining and Company Limited, is registered in England and Wales under number 00525071, incorporated on 27 October 1953, with its registered office at the Weston Centre, 10 Grosvenor Street, London, and a registered business of wholesale of coffee, tea, cocoa and spices.[^companies-house][^twinings-terms]

The tin prints no nutrition table. Tea whose only added ingredient is a flavouring that does not modify its nutritional value is exempt from the mandatory nutrition declaration under Annex V, point 8 of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011, so the Nutrition section here is empty by the label's design, not for want of looking; Open Food Facts holds no nutriment values for the barcode either.[^eu-1169][^off]

No country of sale is claimed. Open Food Facts tags the barcode Belgium and France, and Go-UPC repeats those two tags and adds Delhaize as a store, but the Go-UPC record is a copy of the Open Food Facts one down to the ingredient string, so the two are one contributor claim rather than two sources.[^off][^goupc] French grocers do list a 200 g Twinings Original Earl Grey metal tin, but none of those listings prints a barcode and a second 200 g article, 5055953902494, also circulates in France, so no listing could be tied to this GTIN.[^labellevie]
<!--/about-->