Irvine, CA — Layn Natural Ingredients will spotlight a range of functional beverage concepts at the World of Coffee in San Diego, with a focused emphasis on tea as a versatile platform for function in foodservice. At Booth #1922, the company will serve multiple ready-to-drink formats, including functional teas, juices, and wellness shots formulated with plant-based ingredients.
The showcase reflects a broader shift in the beverage landscape, where the foodservice category is expanding to include beverages that offer added benefits such as energy, mood support, and hydration. Tea, in particular, is emerging as a flexible base for these applications due to its familiarity, clean-label appeal, and compatibility with a wide range of functional ingredients.
Layn’s featured concepts are designed with this evolving foodservice environment in mind. The company will highlight applications built with its tea extracts and instant tea powders, enabling product developers to deliver added functional health claims across formats ranging from fountain-style beverages to RTDs and specialty drinks.
“Foodservice is becoming an important channel for functional beverages,” said Elaine Yu, President of Layn USA. “Consumers are no longer just looking for refreshment; they’re looking for beverages that align with their lifestyle and provide added functional health benefits, whether that’s sustained energy, balance, or overall wellness. Tea provides a natural foundation to deliver on those expectations.”
In addition to tea-based beverages, Layn will present Lovia®, its line of highly customizable monk fruit-stevia blends and tabletop sweeteners optimized for varying applications and an improved sweetness profile. The company will also sample juice and wellness shot concepts that demonstrate how functional ingredients can be incorporated into compact, high-impact formats suitable for quick-service and fast-casual settings. These applications are designed to integrate easily into existing menus, offering operators a way to differentiate without adding operational complexity.
The company’s presence at World of Coffee underscores its focus on supporting brands and operators entering the functional beverage space, particularly as demand grows for low-sugar, plant-based, and purpose-driven drink options. With increasing crossover between café culture and wellness trends, functional teas and related formats are becoming a natural extension of modern beverage menus.
Visit Layn at Booth #1922 to sample Layn’s functional teas, juices, and wellness shots and explore how these concepts can translate into scalable offerings.
About Layn Natural Ingredients
Layn Natural Ingredients is one of the world’s largest manufacturers and innovators of natural botanical extract ingredients, including innovations based on advanced precision fermentation and enzyme-based technology. For more than 25 years, Layn has served leading brands across food, beverage, flavor, nutraceutical, sports nutrition, personal care, and pet & animal nutrition, and also offers contract manufacturing services. Truly vertically integrated, Layn delivers a fully secure, manufacturer-direct, transparent, and scalable supply chain from seeds and agronomy to extraction and formulation. Its world-class R&D operation includes more than 3.2 million square feet of state-of-the-art extraction and global innovation centers throughout the world to conduct research, ensure quality, and provide formulation and application guidance—alongside a newly opened U.S. manufacturing facility in Jeffersonville, Indiana, which expands local production capacity, strengthens supply-chain resilience, and supports customers seeking U.S.-made botanical solutions. Committed to quality, innovation, and sustainability, Layn continues to advance botanical science while empowering brands with clean-label, high-purity, plant-based solutions. Botanify your product portfolio now with Layn Natural Ingredients.
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