Where to buy ube powder — price, sizes and which one to choose

In Europe the easiest way to buy ube is as a powder — the fresh tuber is rare and mostly found in Asian grocery shops. Powder keeps well, is easy to measure and works in lattes as well as in desserts. The Avelor shop carries four packs: 50 g, 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg.

Ube powder sizes and prices

One drink takes 2–3 g of powder; the table uses 2.5 g. Prices and cost per serving come from the shop’s current price list.

Which size to choose

• To try it: the 10 g sample — 3–5 drinks, enough for a hot version, an iced one and one dessert test.
• For home: 50 g is about 20 drinks, 100 g about 40. If you bake with ube, go larger: a cake takes more powder than a glass.
• For a café: 500 g (about 200 servings) to test the item on the menu, 1 kg (about 400 servings) for steady sales.

Before you buy: what to check in any shop

The word “ube” on a pack covers very different products. Whatever the brand, read the ingredient list:

• Powder or flavouring? Powder is the dried, ground tuber. A flavouring or extract mostly gives aroma and colour — a different product with different dosing.
• Ube or purple sweet potato? Ube is a yam (Dioscorea alata). Purple sweet potato and taro are different plants, even though they are sometimes sold under similar names.
• Sugar and milk powder. Ready-made “ube latte” mixes often contain them; the price per 100 g is then not the price of ube itself.
• Colourings. A neon purple can come from a colouring rather than the tuber.
• Price per 100 g. It is the only way to compare packs of different sizes.

What ube is, how it tastes and how it differs from taro: what is ube. It contains no caffeine — details in does ube have caffeine.

Ube for cafés and wholesale

On a menu ube gives you a purple, caffeine-free item next to green matcha. Preparation at the bar is the same as for a matcha latte — a paste from the powder, then milk — so it needs no new equipment. From the 1 kg pack a 2.5 g serving costs €0.20, from 500 g it is €0.24.

Both bulk packs can be bought in the shop as a single unit. For larger volumes, scheduled deliveries or your own label, send an enquiry through the form on the wholesale page — it also covers VAT invoices and the 500 g and 1 kg matcha formats. The bar recipe, including an iced version, is in ube latte recipe.

Delivery: time and cost

For the delivery country Rest of Eurozone the delivery time is 4–7 business days, shipping costs €6.90, and from a basket value of €130.00 it is free.

What to do with your first pack

Start with a latte, because one glass is enough to judge taste and colour. Then: a layered ube matcha latte and five ube drinks. Store the powder dry, in the dark and in a tightly closed pack. And if you want a green drink to go with the purple one — which matcha to buy.