Real ube for your menu.
Pure Filipino ube powder for cafés, bakeries and bubble tea bars. One ingredient, nothing added: the yam’s own flavour and its own violet, in a fine powder that whisks into milk.
- Per kilo bag
- About 200 lattes
- Shelf life
- 24 months sealed
- Ingredients
- 100% ube
Most of the “ube” we found in the UK was flavouring and purple dye. Ours is just the yam.
The rest was often purple sweet potato, a different plant altogether. Thousand Isles is Ube Kinampay, grown in the Philippines. It’s a fine powder with nothing else in the bag: no carrier, fillers, flavourings or colourings.
In a working kitchen that means a single ingredient on the spec and a colour that comes from the food itself.
One kilo, about 200 lattes.
Starting amounts for the drinks and bakes ube sells best, and how far a 1kg Service Bag goes at each.
Sized for service, sold by the kilo.
The same powder in every bag. Trade orders start at 5kg in any mix of sizes, and pricing drops as your volume grows.
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For trying it on your menu
Sample Pouch 50g
A kitchen trial pouch for venues evaluating the powder before they commit to a Service Bag.
Free for qualifying venues
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For most cafés
Service Bag 1kg
A resealable bag sized for a working counter: the same pure powder, less repacking.
Price on request
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For high-volume kitchens
Trade Sack 5kg
Bulk format for high-volume kitchens and bubble tea bars.
Price on request
Need a size that isn’t here? Tell us on the enquiry form and we’ll see what we can do.
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.
Read the mixing guide →-
Alkaline
Bluer
Bicarbonate of soda and hard tap water push it towards blue.
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Neutral
Violet
Water and most milks keep it close to its natural violet.
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Acidic
Pinker
Lemon or lime juice, yoghurt, buttermilk, cream cheese and fruit purées pull it towards pink.
Cooking at home?
The same powder in pouches sized for your own kitchen, from £11.99. For lattes, ube matcha, halaya and whatever else you’ve been meaning to try.
Pre-orders by email for now. We’ll confirm your dispatch date when we reply.
From first sample to first order.
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Tell us about your venue
A few details on the enquiry form: what you serve and roughly how much you’d use.
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Try a sample pouch
Qualifying venues get a 50g pouch to test in their own drinks and bakes, with the mixing guide.
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Get pricing and the spec
Trade pricing for your volume and the full spec sheet.
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Order from 5kg
Any mix of Service Bags and Trade Sacks, delivered in about two weeks. Reorder before you run low.
What comes with your sample
- A sample pouch 50g to test in your own drinks and bakes. Free for qualifying venues.
- The spec sheet Full specification and allergen declaration for your records.
- The mixing guide Starting amounts, method and how to steer the colour.
- Pricing by the kilo Trade prices that drop as your volume grows.
Qualifying venues are UK cafés, bakeries, bubble tea bars and dessert kitchens, including venues about to open. No obligation.
Your enquiry comes straight to the two of us. Apollo grew up with ube as a Filipino staple and kept finding UK “ube” that was colouring and flavouring, so we set out to bring over the real thing.
Apollo and Kafi, founders Our story