Abstract: A process for making a concentrated cold water soluble tea product. The process involves extracting tea material with water to give a tea extract, deleafing the tea extract, concentrating the deleafed tea extract, decreaming the concentrated tea extract, concentrating the decreamed tea extract to give a concentrated cold water soluble tea product. An anionic colloidal material is added between the deleafing step and the decreaming step to generate colour and minimise haze. The tea concentrate can be dried to give an instant tea powder or used to make ready to drink tea with good colour and clarity.