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Twinings English Breakfast vs Yorkshire Tea: blend and price
Twinings English Breakfast and Yorkshire Tea compared on blend, brewing time, pack sizes, bags and price per bag, with UK prices checked 3 Oct 2026.
Twinings vs Yorkshire Tea comes down to style and pack size more than price. Twinings English Breakfast is a blend Twinings builds around Assam, African teas and high-grown Ceylon. Yorkshire Tea is a blend of 10 to 20 black teas from Africa and India, made for a longer brew with milk. We haven’t tested this in person. We won’t tell you which tastes better; this comparison uses the brands’ own pages and UK prices checked on 3 Oct 2026. Read how we compare.
For other black teas, plus green, herbal and decaf, see our tea comparison page.
Twinings vs Yorkshire Tea: the short answer
Choose Yorkshire Tea if you drink several mugs a day with milk and want the best price per bag in big boxes. It comes in more pack sizes, from 40 up to 1,040 bags according to Yorkshire Tea, and the loose leaf is the cheaper of the two per 100g.
Who it isn’t for: anyone who likes a quick dunk. Yorkshire Tea recommends four to five minutes.
Choose Twinings English Breakfast if you want a lighter, quicker cup or a wider choice of formats, including string-and-tag envelopes. The Morrisons listing for Twinings Breakfast Tea suggests two to three minutes.
Who it isn’t for: anyone buying in bulk on a tight budget. On the big-box sizes we saw, Yorkshire Tea was cheaper per bag.
Blend and origins
Yorkshire Tea says its Original is a blend of 10 to 20 black teas, with African teas for liveliness and Indian teas for strength. It also says the blend was originally created for Yorkshire’s water. Taylors of Harrogate has been blending tea in North Yorkshire since 1886, according to the brand, and every Yorkshire Tea product is Rainforest Alliance Certified.
If you want something closer to a premium breakfast blend, Yorkshire Gold uses tea from Kenya, Rwanda and Assam only, with more Assam than the Original, according to the brand. It was £4.30 for 80 bags at Morrisons, checked 3 Oct 2026.
Twinings says its English Breakfast uses full-bodied Assam picked in the summer months, fresh African teas and only high-grown Ceylon. The 80-bag Twinings Breakfast Tea sold at Morrisons is described on its listing as an English breakfast blend of Assam and Kenyan teas.
Who it isn’t for: anyone wanting a single-origin tea. Both are blends designed to taste the same box after box.
Brewing
- Yorkshire Tea: freshly boiled water, four to five minutes, a single gentle squeeze of the bag, then milk, according to the brand’s own guide.
- Twinings: the Morrisons listing for Twinings Breakfast Tea says two to three minutes in freshly boiled water.
So if you follow the packs, a Yorkshire Tea brew takes about twice as long.
If you live in a hard water area, Yorkshire Tea also makes a version for hard water. We cover it in our guide to the best tea for hard water.
Who it isn’t for: anyone who wants to leave the bag in. Yorkshire Tea says the tea can taste stewed if you do.
Price per bag
All prices checked 3 Oct 2026. Per-bag figures are our own maths and rounded.
| Pack | Twinings English Breakfast | Yorkshire Tea |
|---|---|---|
| 40 bags | Check price at Morrisons | £2.20 at Morrisons (5.5p) |
| 80 bags | Breakfast Tea: check price at Morrisons | £3.75 at Morrisons (4.7p) |
| 120 bags | £5.79 at Twinings UK (4.8p); £5.75 at Morrisons | Not sold in this size |
| 160 bags | Not seen | £7.00 at Morrisons (4.4p) |
| 240 bags | Not seen | Check price at Morrisons |
| 300 bags | £13.99 at Twinings UK (4.7p) | Not seen |
For some packs, check price at Morrisons. Of the prices we’ve listed, Yorkshire Tea’s 160-bag box was the cheapest per bag. See Yorkshire Tea 80 at Morrisons or Twinings English Breakfast 120 at Twinings UK.
Twinings also sells 50 English Breakfast string-and-tag envelopes at £6.00 at Twinings UK (12p a bag), checked 3 Oct 2026, which suit guests and offices.
Who it isn’t for: anyone comparing on price alone. Supermarket tea prices come and go, so check price at Morrisons.
Loose leaf
Both brands sell loose tea:
- Yorkshire Leaf Tea: £3.40 for 250g at Morrisons, checked 3 Oct 2026 (£1.36 per 100g).
- Twinings English Breakfast loose: £2.50 for 125g at Morrisons (£2.00 per 100g) or £2.95 at Twinings UK, checked 3 Oct 2026.
Yorkshire Tea says its loose tea packs are still a multi-layer plastic it would like to replace. Loose tea needs a strainer or infuser; see our guide to the best tea infusers.
Bags and disposal
- Yorkshire Tea says the bags in all its UK supermarket boxes are plant-based, sealed with PLA (a plant-based plastic), and can go in your council food waste or garden waste bin for industrial composting.
- Twinings says its tea bags are biodegradable and plant-based and will break down within six months in a council compost caddy, but more slowly in a garden compost heap.
Neither says its standard bags are plastic-free. For how another brand handles this, see are Clipper tea bags plastic-free?
Downsides
- Prices change. Supermarket tea prices move often, so check price at Morrisons on the day.
- Pack sizes don’t line up. Twinings sells 120 and 300; Yorkshire Tea sells 160 and 240, so like-for-like is hard.
- Taste can’t be settled on paper. We can only report what the brands say about their blends.
FAQ
Is Yorkshire Tea stronger than Twinings English Breakfast? Neither brand publishes a strength measure. Yorkshire Tea suggests a longer brew (four to five minutes) than the Twinings Breakfast Tea listing (two to three), which makes a direct comparison tricky.
Which is cheaper, Twinings or Yorkshire Tea? On big boxes, Yorkshire Tea: its 160-bag pack was 4.4p a bag at Morrisons on 3 Oct 2026. Twinings’ best price per bag we saw was 4.7p for 300 at Twinings UK.
Is Yorkshire Tea an English Breakfast tea? It isn’t sold under that name, but it’s a black tea blend designed for milk. Our guide to the best English Breakfast tea covers bags sold as English Breakfast.