Beverages
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsChee-Hway Tsai, David C. Heckert, James T. Kuznicki
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Abstract
A beverage containing a flavorant and green tea solids or flavanols is disclosed. The beverage can contain sweeteners. Caffeine can also be present in the beverage in ratio of caffeine to flavanols of from about 1:1 to about 1:30. The beverage can be carbonated or non-carbonated, i.e. a still beverage such as fruit juice or coffee. The preferred green tea solids are catechin and epicatechin and their derivatives. When caffeine is present, this beverage retains the alertness benefit of caffeine along with the relaxing effects attributed to the green tea solids.
Claims29
A beverage comprising:
- (a) at least 80% by weight of water;
- (b) at least about 0.05% flavanols selected from the group consisting of catechin, catechin derivatives, epicatechin, epicatechin derivatives and mixtures thereof;
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- (c) an effective amount of flavorant.
A beverage syrup or concentrate consisting of:
- (a) at least 25% by weight of water;
- (b) at least 0.05% flavanols selected from the group consisting of catechin, catechin derivatives, epicatechin, epicatechin derivatives and mixtures thereof, and
- (c) an effective amount of flavorant.
A beverage comprising:
- (a) at least 80% by weight water;
- (b) at least about 0.05% flavanols selected from the group consisting of catechin, catechin derivatives, epicatechin, epicatechin derivatives and mixtures thereof;
- (c) an effective amount of a flavorant;
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- (d) a bitterness masking agent selected from the group consisting of cellulose, pectins, gums, nucleotides and nucleic acids.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.