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6. SALIENT CHARACTERISTICS.
6.1 Ingredients. The instant tea mixes must contain ingredients appropriate for the variety(ies), type(s), style(s), and flavor(s) of instant tea mixes specified in the solicitation, contract, or purchase order. The instant tea mixes must comply with the regulations governing the labeling
of foods that make direct or indirect representations with respect to a primary recognizable flavor per 21 CFR ยง 101.22. All ingredients must be cold water soluble.
6.1.1 Sweeteners. Nutritive or non-nutritive sweeteners may be used in the pre-sweetened instant tea mixes. The nutritive sweeteners must be white, refined, granulated cane or beet sugar, honey, fructose, or a combination thereof. The non-nutritive sweeteners must be aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame-K, sucralose, or a combination thereof, or other non-nutritive sweeteners approved by the FDA for food use.
6.1.2 Additional ingredients. The instant tea mixes may contain additional ingredients such as food acidulants, anti-caking agents, emulsifiers, and buffering agents as permitted by the FDA. Food additives or Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) substances must be of Food Chemicals Codex purity or US Pharmacopeia-National Formulary quality and meet the related FDA regulations on food additives or GRAS requirements.
6.1.3 Lemon flavor or lemon juice powder. The instant tea mixes containing lemon flavoring or juice powder must be protected from oxidation, rancidity, evaporation or other types of deterioration by encapsulation or entrapped in an edible material (such as dextrose, corn syrup solids or vegetable gums).
6.1.4 Carbohydrate bulking agent. The instant tea mixes may contain carbohydrate bulking agents which, when used, must be either maltodextrin or corn syrup solids.
6.2 Finished product. The instant tea mixes must be free from lumps that do not fall apart with light finger pressure and be completely soluble. Variety I - Black tea mixes must possess a typical light brown color. Variety II - Green tea mixes must possess a light to medium amber color. All tea mixes must have uniform distribution of ingredients and no aggregates of individual ingredients or anti-caking agents. The instant tea mixes must have an odor characteristic of the variety, style, type, and flavor of tea mix specified. The reconstituted instant tea mixes must have a flavor and odor characteristic of the variety, style, type, and flavor of tea mix specified.
6.3 Foreign material. The finished product must be clean, sound, wholesome, and free from evidence of rodent or insect infestation.
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