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Waka Coffee

Waka Instant Black Tea Mix, Classic

Premium Instant Black Tea: Made from 100% black tea leaves, Waka Instant Black Tea is a fine powder that dissolves easily, providing a smooth and authentic tea experience without any sugar, additives, fillers, or artificial ingredients

8.3 /10
★★★★☆ Highly Recommended Overall Score · 80% expert / 20% community Ranked #940 of 1193 (Top 79%)
Our Coffee Score 8.2
Coffee Lovers Score 8.6
Overall Ranked #940 of 1193 (Top 79%)
Instant Coffee Ranked #119 of 200 (Top 60%)
Our Coffee Score Ranked #929 of 1193 (Top 78%)
Coffee Lovers Ranked #1032 of 1193 (Top 87%)

Our verdict: Ranked #130 of our top 200 instant coffee — a strong medium pick with bold, smooth, sweet notes, earning a 4.3★ average across 1,049 Amazon ratings.

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Key facts

Roast
Medium
Origin
Multi-region blend
Process
Roasted
Size
4.5 oz
Price / oz
$3.11
Best for
Iced, Instant

Flavor notes

BoldSmoothSweet

The Coffee Score review

Premium Instant Black Tea: Made from 100% black tea leaves, Waka Instant Black Tea is a fine powder that dissolves easily, providing a smooth and authentic tea experience without any sugar, additives, fillers, or artificial ingredients Our team spent hands-on time with the Waka Instant Black Tea Mix, Classic to see how it holds up against the rest of the instant coffee we've tested.

Across repeated sessions we evaluated it on the categories that matter most: quality, consistency, value, and how likely we are to reach for it again. Ranked #130 of our top 200 instant coffee — a strong medium pick with bold, smooth, sweet notes, earning a 4.3★ average across 1,049 Amazon ratings.

From the roaster

  • Premium Instant Black Tea: Made from 100% black tea leaves, Waka Instant Black Tea is a fine powder that dissolves easily, providing a smooth and authentic tea experience without any sugar, additives, fillers, or artificial ingredients
  • Delicious Classic Flavor: Our black tea offers a bold, full-bodied flavor with notes of fruitiness, and can be enjoyed on its own, both hot and iced, or enhanced with milk and sugar. Whether you're starting the day or having a break, Waka delivers a bold and refreshing flavor to keep you going
  • Affordable Tea Mix: Packaged with love in California, Waka brings you a convenient, affordable, and high-quality tea experience you can enjoy at home - no steeping or brewing necessary. Each pouch of tea creates up to 200 drinks with approx. 35mg of caffeine per serving
  • Multi-Use Powder: At Waka, we know instant beverages the best, because it is all we do. Be your own barista at home and instantly make your beverage hot, iced, loaded, or whipped - however you like it. Designed for a variety of recipes, delight in the ease and quickness of a tea made with only 3 steps - pour, mix, and enjoy
  • Convenient and Quick Preparation: No need for tea bags, steeping, or waiting - simply add the instant tea powder to hot or cold water, stir, and your beverage is ready to enjoy in seconds, making it suitable for busy mornings or quick refreshment breaks

What we liked

  • Strong overall Coffee Score of 8.2/10 — ranked #940 of 1193 (79% percentile).
  • Distinct flavor profile: Bold, Smooth, Sweet.
  • Community agrees — a Coffee Lovers Score of 8.6/10 from 1,049 ratings.

How we graded this coffee

Grading framework
Taste 40% weight 8.9
Freshness 20% weight 8.8
Bean Quality & Sourcing 15% weight 8.1
Value 15% weight 5.4
Roast Quality 10% weight 8.3
Our Coffee Score (experts, 80% of overall) 8.2/10

The Coffee Lovers Score

Averages 4.3★ from 1,049 verified Amazon shoppers.

5 star 67%
4 star 15%
3 star 9%
2 star 3%
1 star 6%
  • Mills Verified purchase ★★★★★

    5 stars and I'll tell you why!

    "What do I look like? Some guy who's not lazy?" - Lazy Sal, Futurama.A couple reasons why this is a 5 star product for me. Firstly, I love convenience AND black tea. Am I lazy, tired, broke? Maybe, possibly, potentially.

    11 found this helpful

  • Thomas Verified purchase ★★★★★

    Great product!

    Great price & This makes it so easy to have tea whenever you'd like. The flavor is great and dissolves easily. No texture. I do notice I get a little boost of energy when I have a glass.

  • Gaucho Girl Verified purchase ★★★★☆

    Health benefits and great flavor

    This tea is pretty good, but messy, as someone else said. The powder is so fine that it tends to spill, but I’d rather deal with that than have fillers, sweeteners and flavors some corporate product developers come up with.

    10 found this helpful

  • barbara sandler Verified purchase ★★★★★

    WAKA tea tastes great!

    I drink a lot of iced tea. I make it by the pitcher. I used to use tea bags and boiling water. Messy and time consuming. Now I use WAKA black tea and I love the taste. Quick and easy and neat.

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