Beverages having stable flavor/cloud emulsions in the presence of polyphosphate-containing preservative systems by including gellan gum
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsPhillip Floyd Pflaumer, David Lee Montezinos, Paul Ralph Bunke
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Abstract
A beverage such as a dilute juice or tea beverage having a stable flavor/cloud emulsion which contains from about 0.005 to about 0.04% gellan gum, from about 100 ppm to about 1000 ppm of a preservative selected from sorbic acid, benzoic acid, alkali metal salts thereof and mixtures thereof, from about 300 ppm to about 3000 ppm of a food grade water soluble polyphosphate, and from about 60 to about 99% by weight of added water having from 0 ppm to about 180 ppm of hardness.
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A dilute juice beverage which comprises:
- (a) from about 0.2 to about 5% of an oil-in-water beverage emulsion selected from the group consisting of flavor emulsions and cloud emulsions;
- (b) from 0 to about 40% flavor solids selected from the group consisting of fruit juice, tea solids, and mixtures thereof;
- (c) from about 0.005 to about 0.04% gellan gum;
- (d) from about 100 ppm to about 1000 ppm of a preservative selected from the group consisting of sorbic acid, benzoic acid, alkali metal salts thereof and mixtures thereof;
- (e) an amount of a water soluble polyphosphate effective to enhance the antimicrobial potency of said preservative;
- (f) from about 60 to about 99% by weight of added water having from 0 ppm to about 180 ppm of hardness.
A noncarbonated dilute juice beverage which has a pH from about 2.5 to about 4.5 and which comprises:
- (a) from about 0.2 to about 3% of an oil-in-water beverage emulsion selected from the group consisting of flavor emulsions and cloud emulsions;
- (b) from about 1 to about 20% fruit juice;
- (c) from about 0.01 to about 0.03% gellan gum;
- (d) from about 200 ppm to about 1000 ppm of a preservative selected from the group consisting of sorbic acid, benzoic acid, alkali metal salts thereof and mixtures thereof;
- (e) from about 900 ppm to about 3000 ppm of a water soluble polyphosphate having the following general formula:
- (MPO.sub.3).sub.n
- wherein n averages from about 13 to about 30 and wherein each M is a sodium atom;
- (f) from about 80 to about 99% by weight of added water having from 0 ppm to about 60 ppm of hardness.
A process for preparing a pasteurized dilute juice beverage having a stable beverage emulsion, which comprises the steps of:
- (1) forming a dilute juice beverage comprising:
- (a) from about 0.2 to about 5% of an oil-in-water beverage emulsion selected from the group consisting of flavor emulsions and cloud emulsions;
- (b) from about 0.1 to about 40% fruit juice;
- (c) from about 0.005 to about 0.04% gellan gum;
- (d) from about 100 ppm to about 1000 ppm of a preservative selected from the group consisting of sorbic acid, benzoic acid, alkali metal salts thereof and mixtures thereof;
- (e) from about 300 ppm to about 3000 ppm of a water soluble polyphosphate;
- (f) from about 60 to about 99% by weight of added water having from 0 ppm to about 180 ppm of hardness
- (2) pasteurizing the dilute juice beverage at a temperature of at least about 180.degree. F. (82.2.degree. C.);
- (3) cooling the pasteurized dilute juice beverage to about 60.degree. F. (15.6.degree. C.) or less in about 90 seconds or less.
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