C. Bot Prevention In Low Acid Beverages
AssigneeKerflummox Holdings, LLC
InventorsJanice Benson, Oussama Sabky
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Abstract
A low acid beverage product such as e.g. coffee, cold brew coffee or nitro cold brew coffee product that is shelf stable for 180 days at refrigerated conditions including a sealed container having a liquid portion and a headspace. The liquid portion has the beverage with oxygen dissolved therein. A method of manufacturing the beverage includes dissolving oxygen and into a cold beverage and packaging the liquid beverage product with oxygen dissolved therein into a sealed container. The liquid beverage product also includes flavorings or sweeteners or milk products in the sealed container and remains free from Clostridium botulinum (C. bot).
Claims20
A method of manufacturing shelf stable low acid packaged beverage comprising:
- dissolving oxygen into a liquid beverage product, wherein the liquid beverage product is coffee brewed at a temperature of 50 deg C. or less;
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- packaging said liquid beverage product with oxygen dissolved therein into a sealed container along with one or more of the group consisting of:
- milk, flavor additives, carbohydrate sweetener and artificial sweetener, to create a packaged beverage product wherein the packaged beverage product has a pH of 4.6 or greater and comprises oxygen in a headspace of the packaged beverage product.
A packaged beverage product comprising:
- a sealed container with a liquid portion comprising coffee brewed at a temperature of 50 deg C. or less with oxygen dissolved therein and the liquid portion further includes one or more of the group consisting of:
- milk, carbohydrate sweetener and artificial sweetener, wherein the packaged beverage product has a pH of 4.6 or greater and the packaged beverage product is free of Clostridium botulinum (C. bot) in the sealed container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.