Lifestyle blogger Melissa Hartfiel serves up a chocolate iced tea that is both flavorful and refreshing on a hot summer day. As temperatures rise this season, many are ditching their go-to cup of coffee or hot tea in exchange for a chilled tea beverage like this one.
While most associate chilled beverages with green tea, exotic fruits or citrus blends, this chocolate iced tea is a little more unexpected. The beverage is made using Republic of Tea's Strawberry Chocolate blend and is mixed with six cups of water.
The concoction is sweetened with sugar or a healthy alternative like agave, honey or stevia. Once blended, the mixture is infused with strawberry chocolate mint syrup and ready to serve.
Why This Trend Is Growing
- Chilled Tea Beverages
- Opportunity for creating unique and unexpected flavors of chilled tea beverages like chocolate iced tea.
- Alternative Sweeteners
- Disruptive innovation potential in exploring alternative sweeteners like agave, honey, and stevia for flavored tea beverages.
- Infused Syrups
- Innovative possibility of infusing unique and exotic syrups into tea beverages, as demonstrated by strawberry chocolate mint syrup in chocolate iced tea.
Industries Being Reshaped
- Beverage Manufacturing
- A chance for beverage manufacturers to develop and market new flavors of chilled tea beverages, tapping into the growing demand for unique and refreshing drinks.
- Sweetener Industry
- Opportunity for sweetener companies to expand their product offerings by promoting alternative sweeteners for use in flavored tea beverages.
- Syrup Production
- Disruptive innovation possibilities in the syrup industry to create and market unique and exotic flavored syrups that can be used in various beverages.
