Your everyday violet.
Ube Kinampay — a heritage Filipino purple yam, milled to a pure powder for lattes, soft-serve and pastry. Earthy, gently sweet, grown in the Philippines.
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Ube for the home kitchen.
A short selection in retail sizes — the same Ube Kinampay we supply to the trade. Earthy, gently sweet and naturally vivid.
Signature Powder
Service Bag
Wholesale
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Run a café, bakery or bubble tea bar?
Open a trade account for a sample tin, a certificate of analysis with every lot, a mixing guide and volume pricing.
Natural pigment
The colour shifts. That’s the proof.
Ube colour comes from anthocyanins — pigments that respond to pH. In alkaline mixes the powder drifts blue; in acidic ones it leans pink, with violet in between. That movement is the signature of a real pigment, something synthetic colourings simply cannot fake. Every order ships with a mixing guide so the shade lands where you want it.
Provenance
Most “ube” isn’t really ube.
A lot of what’s sold as ube never saw the yam. It’s purple sweet potato — a different plant — or ube flavouring topped up with purple colouring. The vivid shade is often just a dye.
Thousand Isles is the real thing: Ube Kinampay, a heritage Filipino purple yam, grown in the Philippines and milled to a pure powder with no fillers, flavourings or colourings — and a certificate of analysis behind every lot.
What we can put in writing.
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A certificate of analysis per lot
Every lot we import is documented with its own certificate of analysis, so each batch is accounted for on paper.
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The real yam, nothing added
100% Filipino ube powder — no fillers, flavourings or colourings, and not purple sweet potato standing in for the yam.
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Batch traceability, end to end
Each batch is traceable from the lot we receive through to the bag you open, in line with UK food traceability requirements.
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UK-labelled and UK-stocked
Packed and labelled to UK requirements and held in the UK, so trade orders ship domestically without a customs wait.
Most of the “ube” we found in the UK wasn’t ube at all — just flavouring and purple dye. So we went looking for the real thing.
Thousand Isles began with a simple frustration. Apollo, our Cardiff-based co-founder, grew up with ube as a Filipino staple — and kept finding UK “ube” that was really purple colouring and artificial flavour, or purple sweet potato standing in for the yam.
What we sell is the real thing: Ube Kinampay, a heritage Filipino purple yam, grown in the Philippines and milled to a pure powder with nothing added, and a certificate of analysis behind every lot. Just the yam — its flavour, its natural colour, and the paperwork to prove what it is.