Value of the product · read by the cup
A bag is not the unit. The cup is.
A bag here costs between €5.40 and €9.80, which is more than a box of teabags and tells you nothing. Nobody drinks a bag. Divide each one by the dose printed on its own label and the catalogue comes to 1203 cups.
At that unit the whole range sits between €0.08 and €0.37 a cup. Both figures are divisions, not offers — the sums are printed below so you can check them.
The range, per cup
€0.08–€0.37
- Hop Cones
- 100 cups / bag
- Mallow Flowers
- 25 cups / bag
Where a label gives a dose as a range, the sum takes the larger spoon. An honest cup count is the pessimistic one.
Net ÷ dose
The sum, done in public
Net quantity divided by the dose on the same label, rounded down to whole cups. Nothing here is a rate we set — every row is two numbers off a bag and a division you can repeat.
| Entry | Net | Dose | Cups | Bag | Per cup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hop Cones | 50 g | 1 tsp (≈ 0.5 g) | 100 | €8.00 | €0.08 |
| Liquorice Root | 100 g | 1 tsp (≈ 1.5 g) | 66 | €6.80 | €0.10 |
| Fennel Seed | 100 g | 1 tsp (≈ 2 g), freshly bruised | 50 | €5.40 | €0.11 |
| Nettle Leaf | 100 g | 1.5 tsp (≈ 2 g) | 50 | €5.80 | €0.12 |
| Peppermint Leaf | 80 g | 1.5 tsp (≈ 1.5 g) | 53 | €6.50 | €0.12 |
| Small-flowered Willowherb | 60 g | 1 tsp (≈ 1 g) | 60 | €7.80 | €0.13 |
| Aniseed | 80 g | 1 tsp (≈ 2 g), freshly bruised | 40 | €5.60 | €0.14 |
| Lavender Flowers | 60 g | 1 tsp (≈ 1 g) | 60 | €8.60 | €0.14 |
| Chamomile Flowers | 80 g | 1 tsp (≈ 1.5 g) | 53 | €7.80 | €0.15 |
| Nettle Root | 100 g | 1 tsp (≈ 1.5 g) | 66 | €9.80 | €0.15 |
| Thyme | 70 g | 1–2 tsp (≈ 1.5 g) | 46 | €7.00 | €0.15 |
| Ribwort Plantain | 75 g | 2 tsp (≈ 2 g) | 37 | €6.20 | €0.17 |
| Shepherd's Purse | 75 g | 2 tsp (≈ 2 g) | 37 | €6.20 | €0.17 |
| Yarrow | 75 g | 2 tsp (≈ 2 g) | 37 | €6.40 | €0.17 |
| Hawthorn Leaf & Flower | 70 g | 1 tsp (≈ 1.5 g) | 46 | €8.20 | €0.18 |
| Dandelion Root & Herb | 100 g | 1 tbsp (≈ 3 g) | 33 | €6.00 | €0.18 |
| Rosemary Leaf | 70 g | 1 tsp (≈ 2 g) | 35 | €6.60 | €0.19 |
| Sage Leaf | 70 g | 1 tsp (≈ 2 g) | 35 | €6.90 | €0.20 |
| St John's Wort | 75 g | 2 tsp (≈ 2 g) | 37 | €7.60 | €0.21 |
| Lady's Mantle | 70 g | 1–2 tsp (≈ 2 g) | 35 | €7.40 | €0.21 |
| Milk Thistle Seed | 100 g | 1 tsp (≈ 3 g), freshly ground | 33 | €7.20 | €0.22 |
| Lemon Balm Leaf | 60 g | 2 tsp (≈ 2 g) | 30 | €7.20 | €0.24 |
| Elderflower | 60 g | 2 tsp (≈ 2 g) | 30 | €7.60 | €0.25 |
| Valerian Root | 100 g | 2 tsp (≈ 3 g) | 33 | €9.40 | €0.28 |
| Calendula Flowers | 50 g | 1–2 tsp (≈ 1–2 g) | 25 | €8.40 | €0.34 |
| Marshmallow Root | 80 g | 1 tbsp (≈ 3 g) | 26 | €9.00 | €0.35 |
| Linden Blossom | 50 g | 2 tsp (≈ 2 g) | 25 | €8.80 | €0.35 |
| Mallow Flowers | 50 g | 2 tsp (≈ 2 g) | 25 | €9.20 | €0.37 |
The dearest cup in the catalogue is roughly four times the cheapest, and the reason is weight rather than margin: a flower that weighs almost nothing needs two teaspoons to fill a cup, while a cone needs half of one.
Four things, itemised
What the difference buys
Four costs sit between a graded, blended, unlabelled bag and this one. Each is a decision made on the bench, and each one is visible somewhere in the catalogue.
In the price
A field you could drive to
Buying single lots costs more than buying graded, blended stock, and it is the reason a bag can name a place rather than a continent. It also means a bad year in one region shows up as an entry going out of the catalogue instead of quietly changing character.
18 named origins
12 of the entries gathered rather than grown
In the price
The part, not the plant
Stalk is heavy, cheap and legal to sell you. Sieving it off is the single largest loss on the bench and the thing you are least able to check by eye once a herb is cut small.
6 plant parts
2 more left uncut rather than bought in
In the price
A batch you can quote back
Every bag carries the lot it was filled from, which is what lets a naturopath or a pharmacist put it into a dispensary record — and what lets us find every other bag from the same field if something is wrong with one.
28 lot numbers
one per entry, printed beside the drug name
In the price
The preparation, printed
Working out the temperature, the dose and the contraindications for a plant takes longer than filling the bag does. It is on the label because a herb you brew wrong has cost you the whole bag, not the difference between two brands.
54 cautions
and 28 water temperatures, none of them optional
The expensive mistake
The cheapest way to waste money here is a kettle.
Marshmallow Root is set in water at 20 °C because the mucilage it is taken for is destroyed by heat. Pour boiling water on it and you have not made a weaker tea — you have made starch water, and the bag is gone. That is €9.00 and 26 cups, lost to a detail nobody told you.
2 of the 28 entries are like this. It is the reason the temperature is printed on the bag rather than left to a search engine, and it is most of what the difference in price is for.
Read the Marshmallow Root preparationNot in the price
A house blend
Blending is where the weak half of a mixture goes to hide. You can mix two of ours in the cup and know the proportion.
A tin, a ribbon or a second box
Dried herb wants dark, dry and sealed. Everything past that is packaging you pay for once and bin once.
A marketing name for the plant
It is Matricaria chamomilla on the label because that is the name a pharmacist, a doctor and a botanist all recognise.
A claim we cannot stand behind
Traditional use is written as traditional use. Nothing in the catalogue is offered as a treatment for anything.
Buy one bag and do the sum yourself.
Weigh the spoon, count the cups, and see whether the number on this page holds. It is the only claim on the site that you can settle in your own kitchen.
1203 cups in the catalogue