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US 6,627,244 B2Granted
Green tea composition and molding matter thereof, and process for producing them
AssigneeJinseido Company, Limited
InventorTeijiro Omura
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AssigneeJinseido Company, Limited
InventorTeijiro Omura
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A green tea composition comprising 100 parts by weight of green tea leaf, and 0.01 to 30 parts by weight of trehalose; a process for producing a green tea composition, comprising the steps of heat-treating fresh tea leaf, drying the heat-treated leaf, and crushing the dried leaf, wherein the fresh leaf is brought into contact with trehalose before or after or simultaneously with the heat treatment of the fresh leaf; a molding matter of a green tea composition, obtained by molding a green tea composition comprising 35 to 80% by weight of granulated or powdered green tea (component (A)), 10 to 60% by weight of maltose (component (B)), and 1 to 20% by weight of trehalose (component (C)); and a process for producing a molding matter of a green tea composition, comprising the step of molding the above green tea composition.
A green tea composition comprising 100 parts by weight of powdered or granulated green tea leaf having a particle size of not more than 16 mesh and a green color index number measured with a digital color sensor of 900 to 1,000, said green color index number representing the amount of residual chlorophyll, and 0.01 to 30 parts by weight of trehalose.
A molding matter of a green tea composition, obtained by molding a green tea composition comprising the following components (A), (B) and (C):
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.