For us, every single ingredient is a story.
Something that you are going to consume on a regular basis, like a chai drink, should be made in the absolute best way possible.
So we sourced all of our ingredients carefully, starting with the cinnamon: the highest quality cinnamon we could possibly find.
The cinnamon, in numbers
Our cinnamon comes from Red Ape Cinnamon, which publishes a lab report for every lot it sells. The cassia in our current blend is lot 25001411. Eurofins tested it at 0.07 ppm lead (read the lab report). The ground cinnamons in the FDA's March 2024 lead alert measured 2.03 to 3.4 ppm, about 30 times more.
Red Ape also supplies our ginger, cardamom, clove and nutmeg, and every lot we use is listed, with its lab and its numbers, on our sourcing page. Our ginger and cloves test higher than our cinnamon, and we show those numbers too. If you want the background on why there is no federal number to compare against, it's here.
We are a company that spends more because we want it to be the best option available.
Zero sugar · Six organic spices · Café-tested · 58¢ per 8 oz cup · Free shipping on every order · Supplier batch-tested for heavy metals · Small batch
Seven ingredients, and nothing else
Black tea, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, clove, nutmeg and black pepper, all organic. No sugar, no sweetener, no milk powder, no fillers. You decide the sweetness, or none.
The taste
We've tried cooking chai the way that it normally is versus using our chai as a powder, and when you go back and forth and taste the difference, the taste of our drink is so much better.
Three questions to ask any chai brand
- Can I see the lab report for the lot in my bag? A brand that tests can point you to it.
- What are the first two ingredients? If they're sugar and milk powder, it's a latte mix, and the sweetness is set for you.
- Who supplies the spices? A name you can look up beats "natural spices".
