System for preparing food or beverages from a pack

A pack for preparing a food or beverage product, the pack comprising:

• at least one container having an inner volume where at least one base ingredient for the preparation of the food or beverage product is stored, the inner volume being defined by sheets of material joined to one another at edges thereof;
• a fitment assembly through which the food or beverage product is delivered, the fitment assembly being arranged on one side of the pack, comprising a fluid inlet comprising an injection hole into the fitment assembly, and further comprising a dispensing fluid outlet comprising an opening at a bottom of the fitment assembly;
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• an identification member comprising information on the food or beverage product to be prepared, the identification member being arranged in a free area of the fitment assembly where the identification member can be read, wherein the identification member is arranged on both sides of the fitment assembly with respect to the fluid inlet and comprises a plurality of times the information on the food or beverage product.

A pack for preparing a food or beverage product, the pack comprising:

• at least one container having an inner volume where at least one base ingredient for the preparation of the food or beverage product is stored, the inner volume being defined by sheets of material joined to one another at edges thereof;
• a fitment assembly through which the food or beverage product is delivered, the fitment assembly being arranged on one side of the pack, comprising a fluid inlet comprising an injection hole into the fitment assembly, and further comprising a dispensing fluid outlet comprising an opening at a bottom of the fitment assembly;
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• an identification member comprising information on the food or beverage product to be prepared, the identification member being arranged in a free area of the fitment assembly where the identification member can be read, wherein the identification member is arranged in the fitment assembly to be reversibly read independent of the orientation in which the pack has been introduced in a preparation device, and wherein the identification member is arranged on a frontal part of the fitment assembly and on a rear part of the fitment assembly.

A pack for preparing a food or beverage product, the pack comprising:

• at least one container having an inner volume where at least one base ingredient for the preparation of the food or beverage product is stored, the inner volume being defined by sheets of material joined to one another at edges thereof;
• a fitment assembly through which the food or beverage product is delivered, the fitment assembly being arranged on one side of the pack, comprising a fluid inlet comprising an injection hole into the fitment assembly, and further comprising a dispensing fluid outlet comprising an opening at a bottom of the fitment assembly;
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• an identification member comprising information on the food or beverage product to be prepared, the identification member being arranged in a free area of the fitment assembly where the identification member can be read, wherein the identification member comprises punched holes configured as a punched-hole code.

A pack for preparing a food or beverage product, the pack comprising:

• at least one container having an inner volume where at least one base ingredient for the preparation of the food or beverage product is stored, the inner volume being defined by sheets of material joined to one another at edges thereof;
• a fitment assembly through which the food or beverage product is delivered, the fitment assembly being arranged on one side of the pack, comprising a fluid inlet comprising an injection hole into the fitment assembly, and further comprising a dispensing fluid outlet comprising an opening at a bottom of the fitment assembly;
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• an identification member comprising information on the food or beverage product to be prepared, the identification member being arranged in a free area of the fitment assembly where the identification member can be read, wherein the identification member is configured either as an optically-read code or as a mechanically-detected code.

A system for preparing a food or beverage product, the system comprising:

• a pack comprising
• at least one container having an inner volume where at least one base ingredient for the preparation of the food or beverage product is stored, the inner volume being defined by sheets of material joined to one another at edges thereof,
• a fitment assembly through which the food or beverage product is delivered, the fitment assembly being arranged on one side of the pack, comprising a fluid inlet comprising an injection hole into the fitment assembly, and further comprising a dispensing fluid outlet comprising an opening at a bottom of the fitment assembly, and
• an identification member comprising information on the food or beverage product to be prepared, the identification member being arranged in a free area of the fitment assembly where the identification member can be read;
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• a device where the food or beverage product is prepared, the device comprising a data reader configured to be confronted with the identification member in the pack when the pack is positioned in the device.

A pack for preparing a food or beverage product, the pack comprising:

• at least one container having an inner volume where at least one base ingredient for the preparation of the food or beverage product is stored, the inner volume being defined by sheets of material joined to one another at edges thereof;
• a fitment assembly through which the food or beverage product is delivered, the fitment assembly being arranged on one side of the pack, comprising a fluid inlet comprising an injection hole into the fitment assembly, and further comprising a dispensing fluid outlet comprising an opening at a bottom of the fitment assembly;
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• an identification member comprising information on the food or beverage product to be prepared, the identification member being arranged in a free area of the fitment assembly where the identification member can be read, wherein the fluid inlet leads from an exterior of the container to the injection hole of the fitment assembly emerging into the inner volume of the container, wherein the fitment assembly has a top at an opposite end of the fitment assembly from the bottom, and the injection hole and an aperture into the dispensing fluid outlet are both positioned in the top of the fitment assembly.