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US 12,593,856 B2Granted
Reduced calorie beverage or food product and process and apparatus for making same
AssigneeSquare Son Intellectual Property, LP
InventorLuc Hobson
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process for preparing a reduced calorie beverage or food product employing fermentation of a plant-derived juice or liquid and removing the ethanol therefrom. This invention also relates to an apparatus for performing the process for preparing a reduced calorie beverage or food product and to the reduced calorie juices and juice products created using this process and apparatus.
Claims16
A method of preparing a beverage or food product, the method comprising:
- (a) adding yeast to an aerated plant juice or liquid;
- (b) fermenting, under aerobic conditions, the plant juice or liquid with the yeast to produce a fermentation product containing ethanol;
- (c) adding further sugar containing plant juice or liquid to the fermentation product under the aerobic conditions;
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- (d) after (c), removing at least some of the ethanol from the fermentation product by evaporation to produce the beverage or food product, wherein the beverage or food product comprises the fermentation product with at least some ethanol removed.
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