8 botanical beverages to get the par-tea started
Ready-to-drink teas are serving up innovative ingredients with functional benefits.
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Hrbvor’s new, refreshing tea is caffeine free and sweetened with monkfruit, erythritol and raw honey. This tea has flavorful ingredients such as hibiscus flowers, moringa leaves, lemongrass and peppermint leaves. Additionally, there are three SKUs of these herbal teas: Revive, Calm and Focus.
These Fair Trade Certified and USDA Organic sparkling beverages are sugar free and filled with regeneratively farmed organic green tea and hibiscus. Sarilla, a purpose-driven company, partners with Rwandan genocide survivors who grow the botanicals at the Ubuzima Healing Garden.
This new USDA Organic, shelf-stable drink is sweetened with monk fruit concentrate and has tart and herbal notes of grapefruit and thyme infused with kombucha. This mission-driven brand has composted 26,000 pounds of tea for local agriculture and has contributed 75,000 pounds of wastewater for renewable energy.
Tama Tea has a new, fruity unsweetened tea with 120 mg caffeine and palatable ingredients including organic yerba maté from South America, rose hips, raspberry and hibiscus. Moreover, the brand has three other sparkling green tea flavors: Peach Pear, Lemo Lavender and Go Go Mango.
Delicious and botanical, these unsweetened beverages have a base of carbonated water with bergamot citrus juice from Italy and cold-brewed Four Seasons Spring oolong tea from Taiwan. These canned drinks are great for adding to mocktails and have 10 calories and 30 mg of caffeine per 12-oz can.
This new, USDA Certified Organic, Non-GMO Project Verified SKU is a full-bodied blend of sparkling water and tea with rose, hibiscus, lime and cardamom extracts. This product line also comes in three additional, unsweetened flavors: Blood Orange Vanilla Black Tea, Blueberry Cinnamon Hibiscus Tea and Grapefruit Lavender Ginger Tea.
Known for its functional coffee drinks, Taika has collaborated with Friends with Benefits, a web3 creative community, to create this lightly carbonated, unsweetened, ready-to-drink tea that has 60 mg of caffeine. This tangy drink has yerba mate extract, L-theanine and lion’s mane extract.
This refreshing, unsweetened drink is USDA Organic and Fair for Life Certified, and has coconut water, yerba mate extract and yerba mate essence. Harmless Harvest founded the Regenerative Coconuts Agriculture Project (ReCAP) that partners with organic coconut farmers in Thailand and grows coconuts without the use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers.
This refreshing, unsweetened drink is USDA Organic and Fair for Life Certified, and has coconut water, yerba mate extract and yerba mate essence. Harmless Harvest founded the Regenerative Coconuts Agriculture Project (ReCAP) that partners with organic coconut farmers in Thailand and grows coconuts without the use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers.
The ready-to-drink tea market is bubbling with innovations as evolving consumer habits propel the rise of prepared tea options with health-promoting benefits.
RTD teas with innovative and interesting ingredients are showing up in the beverage aisle. Two ingredients of note appearing in many teas are hibiscus, a botanical that can support the immune system and assist with free radicals, and yerba mate, an herb often relied on for its purported jitter-free caffeine boost.
Other ingredients cropping up in RTD tea innovations include oolong and kombucha, two types of tea that are valued for providing antioxidants and boosting energy levels.
Check out this gallery of ready-to-drink beverages featuring oolong, kombucha, hibiscus, yerba mate and other ingredients.
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