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US 2022/0039430 A1Published application
Reduced-sugar fruit juice and fruit must
AssigneeInnovative Strategic Design, LLC
InventorDaniel J. BLASE
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Abstract
A method of producing reduced-sugar fruit juice (with or without pulp) and reduced-sugar fruit must. The reduced-sugar fruit juice has similar nutrition, but with less sugar and calories than 100% fruit juice. Reduced-sugar grape must has similar nutrition and flavor profile, but with less sugars and calories than 100% grape must.
Claims30
A process of producing a reduced-sugar fruit juice and reduced-sugar fruit must, comprising:
- passing an initial juice or an initial must of a fruit through at least one large particle separator to obtain a large particle cake/retentate and a large particle filtrate, the large particle cake/retentate having large particles with a first average size and including at least one of peel, pith, pulp, skins, seeds, stems, leaves, and fruit pieces;
- passing the large particle filtrate through at least one medium particle separator to obtain a medium particle cake/retentate and a medium particle filtrate, the medium particle cake/retentate having medium particles with a second average size that is smaller than the first average size of the large particles;
- passing the medium particle filtrate through at least one small particle separator to obtain a small particle retentate and a small particle filtrate, the small particle retentate having small particles with a third average size that is smaller than the second average size of the medium particles;
- passing the small particle filtrate through a chromatography column to obtain a sugar stream and a reduced-sugar filtrate via ligand chromatography or size exclusion chromatography;
- producing a reduced-sugar fruit juice with pulp by combining at least a portion of the medium particle cake/retentate and the reduced-sugar filtrate;
- producing a reduced-sugar fruit juice without pulp by combining at least a portion of the small particle retentate and the reduced-sugar filtrate;
- producing a reduced-sugar fruit must with fruit skins by combining at least a portion of the large particle cake/retentate and the reduced-sugar filtrate;
- producing a reduced-sugar fruit must without fruit skins by combining at least a portion of the small particle retentate and the reduced-sugar filtrate;
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- producing a reduced-sugar fruit product by including at least a portion of the reduced-sugar filtrate and a diluent.
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