Tea Extracts
Finlays has been making tea extracts for the past 35 years, having developed a process that preserves the delicate flavours of leaf tea.
We have a range of products which we group into 5 main categories:
Hot Water Soluble (HWS) tea extracts
These extracts are designed for making hot tea beverages (hence the name).
We use top quality Kenyan or Sri Lankan leaf tea and these extracts have a deep red colour and excellent full bodied flavour.
The extracts are high in “Theoflavins” – a healthy natural ingredient of black tea.
They are perfect for formulations with milk powders to make “instant” hot tea beverages.
Cold Water Soluble (CWS) tea extracts
These extracts dissolve fully in cold water for making “Ready to drink” (RTD) tea beverages.
We use top quality leaf tea to produce extracts, which dissolve to a clear solution in cold water and can be designed to meet different liquor colour levels and Ph stability
Additionally, we can provide them either in a powder, liquid or frozen concentrate form.
The current range of CWS tea extracts is extensive and encompasses;
- Black (Classic flavour and colour)
- Green (varying in taste, colour and “Healthy” polyphenol contents)
- Oolong (A unique fusion of Green/Black taste)
- White (The latest fashion in “Healthy” tea beverages)
- Rooibos (South African origin, with zero caffeine and strong health benefits)
- Honeybush (a new South African infusion, becoming more talked about)
- Jasmine (Delicately fragrant)
- Puer (Chinese origin with a strong musty flavour)
- Yerba Mate (the famous South American tea beverage)
Carbohydrate blended tea extracts
We can blend any of our CWS tea extracts with maltodextrin to produce specialized products for the food service and dairy trade.
Decaffeinated tea extracts
All of our CWS tea extracts can be made in a de-caffeinated form without the use of any solvents.
Tea Aroma
We capture the natural aroma formed during the tea brewing process of both green and black tea. This is becoming increasingly popular way of enhancing the flavour of RTD “Iced tea” formulations.
