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Wellness Tea Line: Adaptogen Pods for Retail
A wellness brand wanted mushroom-and-botanical tea pods with accurate dosing, clean flavor, and label compliance for national specialty retail.
4 botanicals
Active ingredients
12-week panel
Stability testing
2 of 4
Organic SKUs
Challenge
Functional ingredients degrade quickly if mishandled during blending and filling. The brand needed R&D support, dose uniformity per pod, and organic segregation for two SKUs while keeping launch timelines aggressive.
Solution
Our R&D team iterated post-roast botanical addition protocols, ran 12-week stability panels, and coordinated supplement facts panel review with the brand's regulatory counsel. Organic SKUs used dedicated handling SOPs.
Results
- ✓Four-SKU line launched with verified dose uniformity across 10,000-unit pilot batches.
- ✓National specialty retail buyer approved after facility audit and sample submission.
- ✓Organic variants maintained chain-of-custody documentation for certification audits.
“Most co-packers could fill pods. Few could help us get the adaptogen dosing right without wrecking the cup flavor.”
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