Description
Bulk Earl Grey Extract from the Angel Bake Culinary Aromatics collection, in a 1 gallon container for production volumes. A composed Earl Grey profile rather than a tea extract: bergamot led, rounded with sweet orange and finished with lavender, carried in organic cane sugar ethanol with no added water. Water soluble, caffeine free, and formulated for beverage, bakery, and confection lines that need the profile to repeat lot after lot.
Earl Grey without the brew
Earl Grey is a bergamot profile before it is anything else, and that is where this extract starts. Citrus bergamia carries the bright, faintly bitter citrus top note that makes the style recognizable at the first sip.
Sweet orange sits underneath the bergamot and rounds the citrus so it reads warm rather than sharp. Lavender finishes it with the soft floral note people associate with a well made Earl Grey, at a proportion low enough that it reads as depth rather than as lavender.
Because the profile is composed rather than steeped, it repeats. Brewing gives you a different answer depending on leaf lot, water temperature, and contact time. This does not.
No tea in the bottle, and no caffeine
There is no tea solid in this formula, so there is no caffeine. For a bakery that matters on evening desserts and on menus written for children. For a beverage producer it removes a declaration to manage and takes the tea supply chain out of your specification.
It also means you are not carrying tannin into the base. Tannin is what turns a brewed infusion bitter and cloudy once it sits in a syrup or a cream, and it is the reason steeped Earl Grey rarely holds up in production.
What we don’t have matters
Culinary Aromatics extracts are built on four statements a quality reviewer can check against a specification sheet rather than on adjectives. Every Culinary Aromatics product is made without:
- Synthetic or artificial flavor ingredients
- Propylene glycol, the carrier most of the flavor industry uses
- Added water. Food grade ethanol carries residual water, and stating it that way is the accurate version
- Added sugar
- Synthetic colors or dyes
- BHT or sodium benzoate
- Caffeine
Production runs in a dedicated gluten-free, allergen-free facility, which means none of the major food allergens are present in the production environment, not simply absent from the formulation. That is the assurance manufacturers supplying allergen-sensitive retail and foodservice channels are asked to provide.
Why organic cane sugar ethanol? The carrier makes the difference
Culinary Aromatics extracts are carried in organic cane sugar ethanol with no added water. Because the carrier is water soluble, the extract disperses into a water phase cleanly instead of beading on the surface of a syrup or breaking a curd, which is what happens when an oil borne flavor is pushed into a water based system.
There is a food safety consequence as well. At the concentration Culinary Aromatics is formulated to, the product does not support microbial growth, which is why the microbiological section of the COA reads not applicable across the panel. It does not clean up a microbial load already present in your base, and we will not claim that it does.
Applications at scale
Ready-to-drink tea and bergamot sparkling water, bar and coffee shop syrups, private label tea lattes, bakery fillings and creams, frozen dessert bases, and confection centers where the flavor rides in a water phase.
The format suits any water based system where an oil borne flavor would separate. Where a customer needs the same profile in chocolate or in a butter dough, the Pure Infusions Earl Grey flavor oil covers the fat side without a second flavor development cycle.
Documentation your quality team will ask for
Every lot ships with a Certificate of Analysis. Specification sheet, allergen statement, Kosher certificate, NSF certificate, and SDS are available on request before you commit to a trial.
On your ingredient statement this declares as natural flavor. Because the profile is composed from more than one botanical rather than from a single named food, have your labeling reviewer look at any front panel Earl Grey name against 21 CFR 101.22 before you print. We will send the formulation documentation that review needs.
Saena, LLC holds NSF third-party certification for GMP and HACCP and is an FDA registered food facility. We do not hold a GFSI benchmarked scheme such as SQF, BRCGS, or FSSC 22000. We would rather you hear that from us than find it in an audit questionnaire.
Certifications and compliance
Third-party certified:
- Kosher, Oregon Kosher, PAREVE
- NSF GMP and HACCP certified facility
Regulatory compliance:
- FDA registered food facility
- FEMA GRAS compliant
- California Prop 65 compliant
Ingredient declarations:
- Gluten-Free, produced in a dedicated gluten-free, allergen-free facility
- Made with organic ingredients. Most Angel Bake formulations exceed 98 percent organic content. Saena, LLC is not a certified organic handler.
- Made with NonGMO ingredients, with full ingredient traceability
- Vegan
- Keto-friendly
FEMA GRAS covers the safety and regulatory status of the flavor ingredients used. That is a separate question from whether a material is natural, and we document the two separately. Because we maintain full ingredient traceability, we can provide the compliance documentation retailer questionnaires and audits ask for.
Usage and ordering
We do not publish fixed dose rates. The right rate depends on your base, your process, and your target intensity, and a published number is usually wrong for a specific application. Tell us the application and we will run the bench work with your team against your own base.
Best By: 3 years from manufacturing date. Store capped, cool, and out of direct sunlight.
Wholesale enquiries and documentation requests: [email protected]
An Angel Bake product by Saena Baking Co.
