Whole herbs, flowers and dried fruit used in Tily Tea

Modern wellness, rooted in tradition.

Since 2019, this Singapore tea brand has blended time-loved Chinese herbs into herbal tea for modern life: whole, caffeine-free, honest, and beautiful enough to gift.

Our story

How Tily Tea began, and where we’re taking it next.

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Tily Tea founders with Radiant Glow tea, a glass teapot and teacups

How it began

Part 1 of the founder story goes here: who started Tily Tea in 2019, and the moment that sparked the idea of a whole-herb, caffeine-free tea.

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Tily Tea Good Gut, Evening Calm and Through The Day herbal tea boxes with a glass teapot and cup

Growing Tily

Part 2 goes here: building the blends on Traditional Chinese Medicine principles, the switch to sugarcane-mesh teabags, and the first shelves at TANGS.

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A new chapter

Part 3 goes here: the team taking Tily Tea forward, what stays the same, and what’s next.

Three things we never compromise on

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100% caffeine-free tea, made with functional herbs

Every herb is rooted in tradition, backed by research and chosen to support an everyday wellness need.

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100% natural, no flavourings

Clean-label only: no additives, sugar, flavourings or essences. Just real herbs and botanicals.

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Rituals made simple

Easy to prepare and easy to enjoy, from quiet moments alone to thoughtful gifts for people you care about.

4.5g of whole herbs. You can see the difference.

Many teabags carry around 3–3.5g of finely cut leaves. Our classic teabags hold 4.5g of whole flowers, roots and fruit. That means a fuller flavour, natural sweetness and a bag you can steep again.

Whole longan, red dates, goji and flowers, not dust
Naturally sweet, so you don’t need sugar
Re-steep for a second cup

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A hand holding a Tily teabag full of whole herbs

Silky isn’t always safe.

Those smooth, pyramid-shaped teabags are often nylon or PET plastic. Steeped in hot water, a single plastic teabag was found to release billions of microplastic particles.¹

Tily sugarcane mesh

Plant-based, non-plastic sugarcane mesh, developed with Japanese technology
Biodegradable
Just herbs in your cup

Typical silky pyramid bag

Often nylon or PET plastic
Can shed micro- and nanoplastics into hot water
Not biodegradable

1. Hernandez et al., “Plastic teabags release billions of microparticles and nanoparticles into tea”, Environmental Science & Technology, 2019: about 11.6 billion microplastic and 3.1 billion nanoplastic particles from one plastic teabag at 95°C.

Tily Tea vs. typical herbal teabags

See what’s in every teabag, side by side.

Feature		Other Tea Brands
What’s in the bag	Whole herbs, flowers & fruit	Often finely cut leaves
Herb per teabag	4.5g (classic blends)	Around 3–3.5g
Flavourings & sugar	None	Often “natural flavouring”
Caffeine	100% caffeine-free	Varies
Teabag material	Plant-based sugarcane mesh	Often nylon or PET
How it’s blended	For a goal, on TCM principles	Mostly for flavour
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Great Taste 2026 award winner, and in the news

Digest Ease won a 1-star Great Taste 2026 award, judged blind by food and drink experts. We’ve also been featured on CNA 938, Time Out Singapore, SETHLUI.com, The Singapore Women’s Weekly, YES 933 and Lianhe Zaobao.

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