C. bot prevention in infused coffee
AssigneeKerflummox Holdings, LLC
InventorsJanice Benson, Oussama Sabky
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Abstract
A coffee product including a sealed container having a liquid portion and a headspace. The liquid portion has coffee with a non-oxygen gas dissolved therein and the headspace contains at least approximately 3% oxygen and an amount of a non-oxygen gas. A method of manufacturing the coffee includes dissolving oxygen into a liquid coffee product and packaging the liquid coffee product with oxygen dissolved therein into a sealed container.
Claims27
A method of manufacturing cold brew coffee comprising:
- dissolving oxygen into a liquid coffee product brewed at a temperature less than 50° C. and
- packaging said liquid coffee product with oxygen dissolved therein into a sealed container wherein the sealed container has a partial pressure percentage of oxygen of at least approximately 3%.
A cold brew coffee product comprising:
- a sealed container comprising a liquid portion and a headspace;
- the liquid portion comprising coffee brewed at a temperature less than 50° C. with a non-oxygen gas dissolved therein;
- the headspace containing at least approximately 3% oxygen and an amount of the non-oxygen gas.
A method of manufacturing a stable nitrogen infused coffee product comprising the steps of:
- dissolving oxygen into a liquid coffee product brewed at temperature less than 50° C.;
- packaging the coffee product having dissolved oxygen therein into a container;
- dispensing nitrogen into the container to produce a nitrogen infused coffee product;
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- sealing the container,
- wherein the nitrogen infused coffee product has a pH of 4.6 or greater and remains free of Clostridium botulinum (C. bot) when stored at refrigerated conditions.
A cold brew coffee product comprising:
- a sealed container comprising a liquid portion and a headspace;
- the liquid portion comprising coffee brewed at a temperature less than 50° C. with oxygen and a non-oxygen gas dissolved therein;
- the headspace containing oxygen and an amount of the non-oxygen gas;
- the liquid portion having a pH of 4.6 or greater wherein the product is free of Clostridium botulinum (C. bot).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.