The Tea Planet develops and manufactures custom beverage powders, premixes, functional and wellness drink mixes and bubble tea toppings for brands that arrive with a brief. Our in-house R&D formulates to your target, you approve the samples, and we produce under your label at our FSSC 22000 certified facility in Hyderabad, India.
Brands come to us for a product they cannot buy off the shelf: a new flavour, a different sweetness, a functional ingredient list, or their own version of a drink they already sell. These are the product types we develop and manufacture to a brief.
Milk tea, fruit tea and specialty premixes built to your flavour, sweetness and dosage.
See our premix range →Instant chai, karak and masala chai premixes, with the sweetness and spice level set to your brief, including unsweetened versions.
See karak chai premix →Coffee premixes built around the ingredients you specify, developed and trialled to your brief.
See instant coffee →Flavoured matcha and tea latte premixes in your flavours and sweetness.
See tea lattes →Latte premixes built on botanicals and spices rather than tea or coffee, and herbal and wellness tea blends, formulated to your ingredient list.
How tea bag co-packing works →Instant iced tea and lemonade mixes under your brand, in your flavours and sweetness.
See iced tea mix →Instant tea and coffee premixes developed for vending machines: dose, solubility and taste matched to the machine.
See vending tea premix →Custom popping boba flavours on our own popping boba line, plus tapioca pearls and nata de coco made in-house.
See popping boba →Flavour syrups, tea concentrates and decoctions from our in-house syrup and concentrate line.
See boba syrups →Already sell a product and want it made under your label from one of our existing formulations? That is private label & contract manufacturing. Building a bubble tea range? See private label bubble tea.
Six stages, in this order. Each one is agreed with you before the next starts, and nothing is produced at scale until you have approved the sample you will sell.
The product, how it is served, your target market and price point, and any reference product or existing formula.
Our R&D team develops the formulation and runs bench trials on flavour, sweetness, dosage and texture.
We send samples for your own kitchen or panel to assess, and iterate until you sign off on the one you will actually sell.
Where a new formulation needs it, stability and shelf-life testing is done at cost. The scope and the cost are agreed with you before any test starts.
We supply the specification, ingredient and allergen declarations, nutritional data and shelf life your label is written from, with our view as manufacturer on FSSAI and export documentation.
Production on our own lines under FSSC 22000, packed under your brand, batch-tracked in our Odoo ERP and dispatched in India or for export.
A sample of recent development enquiries, anonymised. They show the range; your brief does not need to look like any of them.
None of this is required to start a conversation. The more of it you can answer, the closer the first sample lands.
Hot, iced, blended, shaken or from a vending machine; with water or milk; the cup size and the taste you are aiming for.
The country and the channel: retail shelf, café, online, foodservice or vending. That decides the label rules.
Your existing formula or specification, a reference product to match or improve, or simply the idea. We work from any of the three.
Ingredients you want in it and ingredients you want kept out, and any dietary requirement such as vegetarian or HALAL.
Who the product is for, how your brand should come across, and how you would like it to reach your customer. Tell us in your own words.
A rough volume, when you want to launch and the price per serve or per pack you need to hit. Ranges are fine.
The questions a brand should ask before development starts, answered plainly rather than left to the contract.
Proprietary formulations and processes remain ours unless they are transferred through a separate written agreement. If owning the recipe outright matters to you, say so at the brief stage and it becomes part of the commercial terms.
Your brief, your reference products and your trial results are used for your project only. We sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) on request, before you share your formula or brief — just ask when you first get in touch.
A formulation developed to your brief can be held for you on agreed terms and volumes. It is a commercial arrangement rather than a default, and it is worth raising early.
Sampling for a custom formulation is part of the development process. It may involve development charges and several rounds, agreed per project, as set out in our sampling policy.
Stability and shelf-life testing is charged at cost. We agree which tests are needed and what they cost with you before any test starts.
The minimum order depends on the product and whether the formulation is new or adapted from one we already make. We confirm it in the quotation after sample sign-off.
We are the manufacturer, not your regulatory adviser, but we have made products for other brands' labels and export consignments, and we share what that has taught us.
Selling in India. You are the food business operator named on your own pack, so the final label and its compliance are yours to approve. The ingredient and additive declarations, the allergen statement, the nutrition panel and any claim wording all follow from the formulation, so we work through them with you during development rather than after it. We supply the specification, declarations, nutritional data and shelf life every line on the label is written from, and manufacture under FSSAI and FSSC 22000.
Selling abroad. We supply the technical dossier an importer's due diligence is built from: specifications, ingredient and allergen declarations, nutritional data, shelf life and certificates of analysis. We are APEDA-registered, the facility is FDA-registered and we are HALAL certified. The label has to meet the rules of the destination market, which you and your importer confirm. Several markets have their own page: the United States, the United Kingdom, the GCC, Saudi Arabia and the UAE; everything else starts at export & international.
The same team that formulates your product runs the lines that make it, at our FSSC 22000 certified facility in Hyderabad.
The facility runs beverage premix blending at about 2 MT a day (milk tea, fruit tea, iced tea, coffee and specialty premixes), popping boba at about 1.5 tonnes a day, tapioca pearls, nata de coco, a syrup and concentrate line, a pyramid and pillow tea-bag line, and a ready-to-drink bottling line. Every production batch is tracked in our Odoo ERP from raw material to dispatch. Full details are on our manufacturing page.
Proprietary formulations and processes remain ours unless they are transferred through a separate written agreement. If owning the recipe outright matters to your business, raise it at the brief stage and it becomes part of the commercial terms rather than a question at the end. A formulation developed to your brief can also be held for you exclusively on agreed terms and volumes.
Yes. We sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) on request, before you share your formula, specification or brief. Your brief, reference products and trial results are used for your project only.
Contact us for MOQ. It depends on the product and whether the formulation is new or adapted from one we already make. We confirm it in the quotation after sample sign-off, and we will tell you which choices lower it.
There is no fixed timeline. It depends on how close the first sample lands, how many trial rounds it takes and whether stability or shelf-life testing is needed. Once we have your brief we give you a plan with each stage, so you can see where the time goes.
Yes. Nothing goes to production on a description: we send samples for your kitchen or panel to assess and iterate until you sign off. Sampling for a custom formulation is part of the development process and may involve development charges and several rounds, agreed per project.
Where a new formulation needs stability or shelf-life testing, it is charged at cost. We agree which tests are needed and what they cost with you before any test starts.
Yes. Bring your formula or specification, a reference product to match or improve, or just the idea. Our R&D team runs bench trials on our own lines and ingredients and sends samples for you to approve.
We supply the specification, ingredient and allergen declarations, nutritional data and shelf life your label is written from, and share our view as the manufacturer on FSSAI and export documentation. You are the food business operator named on your own pack, so final label approval and compliance in your market are yours.
Send your brief using the form on this page, WhatsApp or call our team. A rough idea is enough to start; we reply with questions, a development plan and the next step.
Tell us the product, the market and roughly how much you need. Our team replies with questions, a development plan and the next step, whether that is a first sample or a call.
Answer what you can. A rough idea is enough to start; our team replies with questions, a development plan and next steps.