Instant tea powder is extensively used in large quantity in various tea
premixes. The main objective to produce instant tea powder is to save
time & effort of mankind in preparation of tea and feel the people
the actual taste of tea as & when they want to have a cup of tea.
Instant tea Instant tea is used almost entirely to prepare iced tea. The
basic objective in the manufacture of instant tea is to extract the
water soluble solids from a pure tea brew, and convert them into a
powdery form. The instant tea ingredient must be an extract processed
from the leaves, buds, and tender stems of the varieties of the species
Camellia sinensis or Thea sinensis known to be suitable for making tea
for consumption as a beverage.
It is manufactured by a fairly exhaustive extraction of black tea with
hot water. After separation of leaf matter from the extract, the latter
is usually stripped of volatile substances (aroma) and concentrated.
Drying of such a concentrate without further processing would result in a
product incompletely soluble in cold water, so the extract is precooled
to precipitate cold water-insoluble fractions, known as 'cream'. These
may be processed to improve solubility and then added to the main
extract. The preserved aroma fraction is added back ta the total extract
concentrate before spray or freeze drying.
Production of instant tea
