Genki Forest’s Iced Coffee Inherits Hit Iced Tea Logic; TELLCAN SCIENCE Compound Formulas Support Flavor & Mouthfeel for Fruit-Flavored RTD Coffee
At the end of March 2026, Genki Forest launched its new ready-to-drink (RTD) coffee product, Iced Coffee. Positioned as an extension to its iced tea line, it comes in two flavors: Juicy Orange and Juicy Grape, with a 900mL large bottle specification. As of March 30, 2026, the product ranked No.1 on the RTD Coffee New Arrival Chart on Tmall Official Flagship Store, holding the top spot for four consecutive days. After store coupons, a pack of 12 bottles is priced at RMB 56.9, equivalent to around RMB 4.74 per bottle.
Iced Coffee adopts multiple proven strategies from the brand’s blockbuster iced tea series. It features a similar visual identity and short, stout bottle shape, maintains an affordable price positioning, and uses the same -196°C liquid nitrogen cold-press fresh-locking technology for fruit juice raw materials. The iced tea line has already delivered outstanding market performance: it became Genki Forest’s fourth-largest product in 2024, and its sales surged 56% year-on-year in 2025, ranking second in the brand’s growth chart.
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Flavor & Texture Challenges Facing Fruit-Flavored RTD Coffee
Marketed as low-sugar, zero-fat fruit coffee, Iced Coffee uses coffee beans imported from Southeast Asia and lemon concentrate processed via liquid nitrogen cold pressing for a sweet-sour taste profile. Nevertheless, blending fruit juice with coffee and packaging it in large 900mL bottles brings stringent demands for flavor reproduction and long-term texture stability. Coffee naturally carries bitter and astringent notes, which become amplified after mixing with fruit juice. Besides, large-capacity bottles mean prolonged drinking periods, making flavor fading, color shift and liquid stratification far more obvious after opening. Furthermore, the low-sugar, zero-fat formula must deliver full, smooth mouthfeel without extra sugar.
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Compound Solution from TELLCAN SCIENCE
These formulation pain points fall right within the core expertise of TELLCAN SCIENCE, which has developed a full set of systematic compound solutions tailored to fruit-flavored coffee beverages.
For texture and body building, large-volume RTD coffee requires consistent, smooth homogeneity throughout shelf life to avoid separation or sediment between coffee extracts and fruit juice components. Our compound emulsifiers and thickeners (TK1021M, TK1021K) form a stable emulsification system that evenly disperses coffee, fruit juice and water, boosting richness and smoothness to offset the thin mouthfeel caused by low sugar content.
For precise flavor reproduction, the Juicy Orange and Juicy Grape variants need balanced fusion of bright fruit sweetness and rich coffee aroma. Orange flavors (TKF40493, TKF20142) and grape flavors (TKF20316, TKF90527) faithfully recreate authentic fruity notes without overpowering coffee’s intrinsic character, generating multi-layered compound taste alongside the coffee base. Coffee flavor (TKF20013) serves as a stable foundational note to counteract flavor fluctuations of raw coffee extracts, ensuring uniform taste across all production batches.
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Genki Forest is building an integrated “Iced Series” portfolio spanning tea and coffee, anchored by its signature cold beverage concept that expands from iced tea to iced coffee. Successfully stabilizing complex fruit-coffee flavors in large 900mL bottles relies not only on the brand’s sharp insight into consumer trends, but also comprehensive upstream supply-chain support covering emulsification stability, flavor restoration and mouthfeel adjustment.
TELLCAN SCIENCE provides end-to-end technical support from formula design to mass production for brands seeking differentiated fruit-flavored RTD coffee lines, enabling consistent, well-balanced fruity brightness and rich coffee depth in every single bottle.
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