Classic black tapioca pearls
The one most menus start with. It holds its bite and its colour right through service, not just in the first few minutes out of the pot.
Tapioca pearl manufacturer
We make tapioca pearls to your own recipe, for bubble tea chains, distributors and beverage brands.
We're Tealive's only pearl supplier, so we already produce at national chain volume — and every cup has to taste the same, in every outlet, every day.
Everything here is made to your own recipe rather than picked from a catalogue. Tell us the chew and the flavour you're after, and we'll work back from there.
The one most menus start with. It holds its bite and its colour right through service, not just in the first few minutes out of the pot.
Brown sugar is infused into the pearl itself, not carried by the syrup it is served in. The flavour comes through as your outlet cooks it.
The size is yours to choose. We make them to suit your straw, your cup and the drinks on your menu.
If the pearl you have in mind isn't here, just ask. Most requests are a recipe change to something we already make. Request a quote
Why buyers stay
The hard part is making the next batch taste like the last one. We produce on our own dedicated tapioca lines, so the cooking times your team learns in January still work in November.
We cook and taste a sample from every batch against your reference standard — texture, expansion and colour — before it leaves us.
Our cassava starch comes from a fixed group of growers, and we can trace any batch from the root right through to the sealed carton.
We already supply a national bubble tea chain, which sets the standard for how closely we hold a recipe and a delivery date.
Health certificates, certificates of origin, ingredient lists and allergen statements, prepared for the market you're selling into.
We check moisture, whiteness and viscosity as it arrives, and log every batch against the grower it came from.
Tapioca starch, brown sugar and water, rolled to the pearl size you've asked for.
We sieve out anything off-size, so the whole batch cooks evenly once it reaches your pot.
We cook a sample from the batch and taste it against your reference standard for chew and expansion.
Inner bags are sealed, metal-checked and date-coded, then boxed and palletised ready to ship.
Almost everything can be adjusted. Bring us a texture you're aiming for, a sample you like, or even a finished drink, and we'll work back from there.
Request a quoteStarch blend, sweetness, colour and chew are all set for you. We develop against your sample, then keep that result as your reference standard.
Pearl size, cooking time and pack format are chosen around what your outlets can realistically handle.
Your artwork on the inner bags and cartons, in your pack sizes. We take care of the printing, plate setup and label compliance for the market you're selling into.
Most of what we make ships under someone else's brand. We prepare the nutrition panel, allergen declarations and export paperwork to your market's rules.
We quote against your specification, and a minimum order quantity applies. Tell us what you need and we'll come back with the MOQ and pricing for that exact product.
Quality and compliance
HALAL
Certified for Muslim-majority markets
GMP
Good manufacturing practice
HACCP
Hazard analysis and critical control points
Every shipment goes out with a certificate of analysis, and we keep retention samples for the full shelf life. If an outlet ever raises a texture complaint, we can cook the exact batch they received and tell you what happened.
Not really. We make to each customer's own recipe, so texture, colour, pearl size and pack format are all decided with you rather than picked off a list. The range on this page is what we are set up to produce, not a fixed catalogue.
It depends on the product. Because everything is made to your own recipe, the MOQ moves with the ingredients, the packaging and how much of a production run it needs. Send us your requirement and we'll quote the MOQ for that exact product rather than guess at it here.
Yes. For custom work we make a first trial sample, then revise it against your feedback until the texture matches what you're after. Tell us what you're comparing against, and send a sample if you have one.
We're Tealive's only pearl supplier, so we produce at national chain volume with the consistency that needs. Much of our other work ships as private label, which usually means we're not the name on the carton.
Most of what we make ships as private label. You supply the artwork and pack format, and we handle the printing, labelling compliance and nutrition panel for the market you're selling into.
That's something we work out with you, because holding time is a trade-off against chew and mouthfeel. We provide holding guidance and simple cook cards for your team, tested on the recipe you actually receive.
Tell us the product, the volume and the market, and we'll come back with a specification, an MOQ and pricing — usually within one working day.