Editing PG Tips (section)

==Brand name==
In the 1930s, [[Brooke Bond]] launched PG Tips in the tea market in the United Kingdom under the name '''Pre-Gestee''', a variant of the original name "Digestive Tea". The name implied that it could be drunk as a digestive aid prior to eating food. Grocers and salesmen abbreviated it to "PG".<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|title=PG Tips: A Manchester brew|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2005/03/01/pg_tips_75th_anniversary_feature.shtml|access-date=September 1, 2012|newspaper=BBC|date=March 1, 2005}}</ref>

Following the [[World War II|Second World War]], labelling regulations ruled out describing tea as aiding digestion{{cn|date=April 2024}}&mdash;a property that had been attributed to tea&mdash;and by 1950–1951 the PG name was adopted. The company added ''Tips'' referring to the fact that only the tips (the top two leaves and bud) of the [[Camellia sinensis|tea plant]]s are used in the blend.<ref name=PGTea>{{cite web|title=History of PG Tips|url=http://www.englishteastore.com/pgtips-history.html|publisher=English Tea Store|access-date=19 September 2017}}</ref>