Finlays Solutions: Preserving tea flavors and caffeine with direct leaf-brewed concentrate
27 Aug 2025 | Finlays Solutions
Kathy Timperman, VP of R&D at US-based Finlays Solutions, discusses the company’s latest innovation, a 250:1 brewed tea concentrate that offers a clean label tea ingredient without preservatives. She walks us through the direct leaf extraction process used to formulate it, and how the team preserved the aroma, caffeine, and polyphenols in the concentrate without refrigeration.