Container-packed milk coffee beverage
AssigneeKao Corporation
InventorsYoshinobu Hayakawa, Yasushi Shioya, Shinji Yamamoto, Yoshikazu Ogura, Tatsuya Kusaura
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Abstract
Disclosed is a container-packed milk coffee beverage which has an excellent hypertension ameliorating effect and can be ingested in an ordinary manner. A container-packed milk coffee which has a pH falling within the range from 5 to 7 and satisfies the following requirements (A) to (C): (A) a chlorogenic acid: 0.01 to 1% by mass; (B) hydroxyhydroquinone: 0.08% by mass or less relative to the mass of the chlorogenic acid; and (C) the chlorogenic acid/a coffee solid content≧0.03 (by mass).
Claims19
A packaged milk coffee beverage comprising coffee derived from roasted coffee beans, having a pH of from 5 to 7 and satisfying the following conditions (A) to (C):
- (A) from 0.01 to 1 wt % of chlorogenic acids,
- (B) not greater than 0.08 wt % of hydroxyhydroquinone based on a content of said chlorogenic acids, and
- (C) chlorogenic acids/solid content of coffee≧0.03 (by weight ratio),
- wherein component (A) comprises 3-caffeoylquinic acid, 4-caffeoylquinic acid and 5-caffeoylquinic acid, and wherein a weight ratio of 4-caffeoylquinic acid to 3-caffeoylquinic acid is from 0.6 to 1.2, and a weight ratio of 5-caffeoylquinic acid to 3-caffeoylquinic acid is from 0.01 to 3.
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