Twinings Original Earl Grey 200 g tin

This review replaced an empty Markets table with printed evidence off the pack itself. The back prints the French Triman sorting block, "pensez au tri", with a reference to consignesdetri.fr marked "only valid for France", and it names Foods International S.A.S. as the consumer-service contact at Cergy-Pontoise under a French badge and at Antwerp under a Benelux badge.^[1] That company is recorded here as the food business operator; the French business register holds a company of the same name, but it was created in 2022 and closed in 2025 and so cannot be the operator on a tin photographed in 2016, which is left as an open question rather than asserted.^[1]

Identity was tested rather than assumed, because a second 200 g Twinings Earl Grey circulates in the same markets as a French-only coffret under barcode 5055953902494. Three of the nine photographs show the barcode 5 055953 900599 in the same frame as the declaration, which settles it.^[1][4] No listing that names this GTIN could be found, so the French retailer row is derived rather than sourced.^[5]

The tin prints no nutrition table, and that is by design: 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.^[6] The exemption is now recorded as a panel with its legal basis instead of only in prose. A Go-UPC citation was dropped, since that record copies Open Food Facts down to the ingredient string and is not a second source.^[7] The brand goes back to Thomas Twining's tea room at 216 Strand in 1706, and Associated British Foods has owned it since 1964.^[8][9][10]