Ambient stable beverage
AssigneeLipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
InventorsRoy Michael Kirby, Hazel Steels, Malcolm Stratford
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Abstract
A method for preparing an ambient-stable beverage that is suitable for cold filing. The method involves adding to a beverage at least one pasteurization adjunct that has no appreciable fungicidal activity at a temperature between 0 and 40 degrees C but exhibits fungicidal activity when heated to a temperature between 40 and 65 degrees C, and raising the temperature of the beverage to a temperature between 40 and 65 degrees C in order to activate the fungicidal activity of the pasteurisation adjunct.
Claims13
A method for preparing an ambient-stable beverage suitable for cold filing comprising the steps of:
- adding to a beverage at least one pasteurisation adjunct that has no appreciable fungicidal activity at a temperature between 0 and 40 degrees C but exhibits fungicidal activity when heated to a temperature between 40 and 65 degrees C,
- and raising the temperature of the beverage to a temperature between 40 and 65 degrees C in order to activate the fungicidal activity of the pasteurisation adjunct.
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