HEYTEA Matcha Cloud Coconut Blue

The HEYTEA Matcha Cloud Coconut Blue is $10.49 and 260 calories, which makes it the lightest of the three matcha drinks. Matcha cloud over coconut and blue spirulina, with no artificial colours anywhere in it.

The colour claim is the one worth checking and it holds up. The blue comes from spirulina, an algae extract, and the green from the matcha itself. Neither is a dye. Where they meet the drink shifts through a band of teal that no food colouring would produce quite the same way.

The swap from dairy to coconut is what separates this from the Cloud Matcha Latte. Coconut is lighter and slightly sweet on its own, so the matcha reads cleaner and less rounded than it does against milk. Some people prefer that. Others find it thin without dairy to hold the tea up.

At 260 calories with 11g of fat it is the lightest of the three by a clear margin, against 315 for the Cloud Matcha Latte and 395 for the Triple Supreme, while all three cost the same $10.49. If calories are the deciding factor across the matcha range, this is the one.

The matcha cloud on top is the same salted build used elsewhere with matcha whisked through it, so the drink opens with salt and tea before the coconut arrives underneath. That opening is the best part and it is worth taking the first mouthful over the rim rather than through a straw.

Milk is still declared despite the coconut base, because the cheese cloud itself is dairy. Anyone avoiding milk entirely has no option in the matcha range.

The layers hold for a few minutes and then blend, the same way the Coconut Mango Blue does. If the look matters to you, order it to drink in rather than to carry.

Coconut also changes how the drink ages in the cup. Dairy holds a cloud up longer, so on this one the cap folds in faster than it does on the milk version. That is another argument for drinking it where you bought it rather than twenty minutes later.

For matcha against dairy instead, the Cloud Matcha Latte is the direct comparison at the same price. For the same spirulina trick over fruit, the Coconut Mango Blue is $8.99.