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Mini and large pearls

The size is yours to choose. We make them to suit your straw, your cup and the drinks on your menu.

Diameter is a specification, not a fixed line

Pearl size is usually treated as something you pick from two or three options. It is really a variable, and it interacts with everything else on the drink: the straw gauge, the cup volume, how long the pearl takes to cook, and how it sits in a drink that is mostly ice.

A smaller pearl cooks faster and suits a lighter drink or a narrower straw. A larger one holds its chew longer and reads as more substantial. We size to what your menu needs rather than asking you to work around ours.

Sized, then checked

Sizing is not only about hitting the diameter you asked for — it is about every pearl in the batch being close to it. Anything off-size is sieved out, because a batch with a spread of diameters will not cook evenly in a single pot, and your staff will be judging doneness on the ones they can see.

What you specify

We manufacture to your recipe rather than selling from a catalogue, so almost everything below is decided with you.

Recipe and texture

Starch blend, sweetness, colour and chew are set for you. We develop against your sample, then keep that result as your reference standard.

Pearl size

Diameter is specified per customer rather than picked from a list.

Cook profile

Set around what your outlets can realistically handle, and supplied with holding guidance and cook cards tested on the recipe you actually receive.

Packaging

Your artwork on the inner bags and cartons, in your pack sizes. We handle printing, plate setup and label compliance for the market you are selling into.

Documentation

Health certificates, certificates of origin, ingredient lists and allergen statements, prepared per destination market.

How it is made

Every batch runs the same five steps on our own dedicated tapioca lines. Starch intake — moisture, whiteness and viscosity checked on arrival, with every batch logged against the grower it came from. Mixing and rolling — tapioca starch, brown sugar and water, rolled to the pearl size you have asked for. Sizing and sieving — anything off-size is removed so the whole batch cooks evenly once it reaches your pot. Cook test — we cook a sample and taste it against your reference standard for chew and expansion. Seal and palletise — inner bags sealed, metal-checked and date-coded, then boxed and palletised ready to ship.

Quality and compliance

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.