再生 Upcycling & extraction
NeoTea is building an upcycling program that recovers high-value compounds from tea leaves and tea-tree byproducts — turning material that would otherwise be waste into purified functional ingredients.
工程 How it works
A scientific value-add chain that treats tea-tree material as a resource, not a waste stream.
Leaves and tea-tree byproducts are gathered as feedstock for upcycling.
Target compounds are extracted from the plant material.
Extracts are refined and purified toward defined ingredient grades.
Finished ingredients go into food, nutrition and beverage products.
成分 The two headline ingredients
The most valuable compounds we recover from tea leaves and their byproducts.
The polyphenol fraction of green tea (EGCG-type)
The savoury-sweet amino acid of fine tea
On this page, L-theanine is purified from tea material — tea-native, suited to a natural-origin, circular story, and limited by available leaf.
We are also developing an enzymatic synthesis route → that builds the identical molecule for scale and consistency. Fermentation-made theanine is chemically identical but would not be labelled "from tea".
L-theanine is positioned as a premium flavour-modifying and functional ingredient — used in small amounts to round sweetness and soften bitterness — rather than as a bulk sweetener. This is a developing R&D and pilot programme: regulatory status, permitted use levels and origin/label claims are confirmed per market and application, and we make no medical, therapeutic or disease-related claims for these ingredients.
要点 Why work with us on this
Value is drawn from tea-tree material that would otherwise be discarded.
Extraction and purification target defined, repeatable ingredient specifications.
Low-cost inputs become functional ingredients with strong market pull.
Aimed squarely at food manufacturers, nutrition companies and beverage brands.
応用 Where these ingredients land
Polyphenol-rich fractions and flavour modifiers for formulated food products.
Catechin and theanine ingredients for supplements and health-food formats.
Functional-beverage inputs — from bitterness masking to signature functional drinks.
供給 Ingredient supply & development
Tell us the compound, purity grade, volume and application, and we'll work through feasibility, pilot supply and specifications with you.