Can you sell homemade tea blends in Florida?

Storage & refrigeration

Tea Blends qualifies because it's shelf-stable — safe at room temperature. Keep it that way: the moment you add a cream or custard filling, fresh dairy, or anything that needs refrigeration, it stops being a cottage food. Store and transport tea blends at room temperature and it stays compliant.

How to label tea blends

Every package of tea blends you sell needs a compliant label with all 6 required elements:

1. 1Your cottage food business name and address
2. 2The product name
3. 3Ingredients, listed in descending order by weight
4. 4Net weight or quantity
5. 5Allergen declaration (milk, eggs, wheat, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish)
6. 6The cottage food statement (exact wording, below)

Where you can sell tea blends in Florida

Cottage food is sold direct to the customer, within Florida. For tea blends, that means:

Pricing tea blends for profit

Add up your cost per unit (ingredients + packaging), multiply by 3–4× to cover your time and overhead, then sanity-check against what similar makers charge locally. Undercharging is the single most common mistake — your time is a real cost, not a freebie.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Underpricing — not counting your time, packaging, and market fees
• Missing a required label element, especially the exact cottage food statement
• Adding a filling or frosting that needs refrigeration, which quietly turns compliant tea blends non-compliant
• Selling across state lines or wholesale to a shop for resale
• Losing track of the $250,000/year gross sales cap