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US 8,557,315 B2Granted
Process of preparation of a foamed tea beverage
AssigneeNestec S.A.
InventorsEckhard Seid, Jean Pacault
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Abstract
The invention concerns a foamed tea beverage composed of: a mixture of liquid and bubbles, a foam head above the mixture of liquid and bubbles, characterized in that the beverage is deprived of any creamer, lipid or thickener agent, and in that the said beverage is generated from the combination of water, a powdered tea composition having a tea extract powder, and a food-grade acid.
Claims4
A process for the preparation of a foamed tea beverage, the process comprising:
- injecting a fluid under pressure into a capsule comprising a chamber containing a beverage-forming substance and having a beverage dispensing structure adapted to retain an extraction pressure in the chamber before allowing the beverage to flow out of the capsule at greater than 2 bar,
- wherein the beverage-forming substance is a powdered tea composition comprising at least 0.7 weight % of a tea extract powder and at least 1 weight % of a food grade acid, and wherein the beverage comprises a mixture of liquid and bubbles, a foam head above the mixture of liquid and bubbles, and the beverage does not include any creamer, lipid or thickener agent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.