Taiwan-based Blossom Tea has developed a range of granulated tea crystals which it believes will help it to tap on both convenience and health trends in markets across the Greater China region.
A recent study has found coffee and tea to be the top source of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) for Taiwanese adolescents, in addition to higher health and nutritional risks.
Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent even among healthy Taiwanese without chronic kidney disease, but tea consumption may help to combat the issue, according to a community-based cohort study.
Singapore food inspection authorities have withdrawn 11 starch-based products from Taiwan - mostly tapioca starch balls used in bubble tea - from sale after finding they contained amounts of an unapproved chemical.
Taiwan has told countries that had placed a ban on the import of its food products that it has managed to gain control of the DEHP food contamination problem from earlier this year.
