Tea as a Specified Ingredient, Not a Story

For a bottling line, tea is an ingredient with a specification sheet. Origin narrative is not the purchase driver; haze after pasteurisation and colour drift across batches are.

This line is contract-manufactured at a partner extraction facility under our raw-material specification. We say so plainly because a buyer who audits will find out anyway, and because a supplier who is honest about where a step happens is easier to work with than one who is not.

What buyers in this segment ask

Is it soluble in cold water?

Yes, completely. Hot-water-only powders create bottlenecks on both RTD lines and bubble-tea counters, so cold solubility is the base specification rather than an option.

How stable is it in an acidified formulation?

Acid-stable variants are available for pH 3.0–4.0 systems. Stability must still be validated in your own finished-product matrix; we supply pilot quantities specifically for that.

Can we audit the facility?

Yes. The extraction and spray-drying steps happen at our partner's plant, and we will arrange access there — we would rather you saw it than assumed it.