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Herbal Tea Ingredients in Bulk for Blenders & Cafés
Herbal tea ingredients in bulk, for a blender or café building a house infusion, means sourcing the individual components separately rather than buying a finished blend — hibiscus, sage leaves, mint and mixed herbs from AbdulRahim Mills, each ordered on its own so you control the ratio and can adjust it batch to batch. That's a different relationship with a supplier than buying a pre-mixed tea, and it's the one this page covers.
We're an ingredient supplier here, not a finished-tea brand: no recipe card, no proprietary blend ratio, just the loose botanicals a café or private-label tea business needs to build its own. For the traditional zhourat blend itself — what typically goes into it and how it's served — see our zhourat and the Levantine herbal tea shelf post; this page is about sourcing the raw components for your own recipe, not that specific blend.
Four components, ordered separately
Hibiscus brings colour and tartness and is the most requested single component on its own. Sage leaves and mint are the two most common savoury-leaning additions, either blended with hibiscus or served as single-herb infusions in their own right. Mixed herbs is a fourth option for a blender who wants a starting base rather than building entirely from single components — worth pairing with our mixed dried herbs guide, which covers what that particular blend typically contains and how to confirm its exact composition before you build on top of it.
Ordering all four on one inquiry gives a café or blending operation the full component set for a rotating seasonal menu — hibiscus-forward in warmer months, sage or mint-forward in cooler ones — without committing to a single fixed recipe from us.
Why cafés and juice bars ask for the same components
A juice bar or café building a cold-infusion or iced-tea program often sources from the same short list of components as a hot-tea blender, just for a different end product — our juice bar ingredients in Toronto answer covers hibiscus and mint specifically from that angle. Whether the finished product is a hot pot of zhourat or a cold hibiscus infusion behind a juice-bar counter, the same loose ingredients do the work.
That overlap is useful for a buyer running both a café and a retail shelf: one bulk order of hibiscus, sage, mint and mixed herbs can supply an in-house beverage program and a bag-it-yourself retail bin from the same delivery.
A labelling note if you're building a private-label blend
If your business repackages any of these components into your own retail-facing blend, Canada's bilingual food-labelling rules apply to what you sell, not just to what we ship you — common name and net quantity need to appear in both English and French on a packaged retail product, with a narrow set of exemptions for specialty or local foods. This is general guidance, not legal advice, and worth confirming with CFIA directly before your first retail print run.
It's a detail that catches new tea-blending businesses off guard more than any sourcing question does — the ingredients themselves are straightforward to buy; it's your own finished-package labelling that carries the compliance work.
Ordering as a blender, not a finished-tea buyer
Tell us the components and rough proportions you're building toward, not a finished blend name, and we'll quote each ingredient by the case or bulk bag on one inquiry. Current bag sizes are confirmed at quotation and vary by component.
What is zhourat tea? is worth a read if you're new to the category and want the traditional-blend context before you start experimenting with your own ratio — it explains what the classic version typically contains without dictating what yours has to look like.
Related questions
Do you sell a pre-made herbal tea blend, or just the loose ingredients?
Just the loose components here — hibiscus, sage, mint and mixed herbs, ordered separately so you control the ratio. For the traditional zhourat blend itself, see our dedicated post on that specific mix.
Can I order these ingredients for a cold-infusion or juice-bar program instead of hot tea?
Yes — hibiscus and mint in particular work for both hot and cold applications, and the same bulk order can supply a café's hot-tea program and a juice bar's cold-infusion menu.
What labelling rules apply if I repackage these as my own blend?
Canada's bilingual labelling rules require common name and net quantity in English and French on a retail package, with narrow exemptions. Confirm current requirements with CFIA before your first print run.