Plant extract-containing beverage
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha
InventorShuichiro Ueda
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Abstract
A plant extract-containing beverage is provided by this invention which comprises at least one flavonoid-containing plant extract selected from the group consisting of ginkgo leaf extract, persimmon leaf extract, crataegus extract, Japanese pagoda extract and lycium fruit extract, xanthan gum, and water, and further as optional components, a sugar alcohol, at least one usual beverage component and ethanol. The plant extract-containing beverage of the invention contains the various herb crude drugs such as ginkgo leaf extract in a stable state.
Claims3
A beverage containing a flavonoid plant extract consisting essentially of an aqueous solution of:
- (a) a plant extract in an amount of final concentration in g/dl selected from the group consisting of:
- ______________________________________ ginkgo leaf 0.01-0.5 persimmon leaf 0.02-1.0 crataegus 0.05-5.0 Japanese pagoda 0.02-2.0 lycium fruit 0.02-3.0 ______________________________________
- (b) xanthan gum in a final concentration of 0.01 to 0.03 g/dl, and
- (c) a sugar alcohol in an amount to provide the aqueous solution with a Brix value of 20-30.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.