COMPOSITION CONTAINING GREEN TEA CATECHIN AND ONE OR MORE POLYVALENT MINERAL CATIONS

• Main Authors: LUHADIYA ASHOK PREM CHAND, ZEHENTBAUER GERHARD NORBERT, KESTER JEFFREY JOHN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.04.2010
• Subjects: COFFEE; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; MANUFACTURE, PREPARATION, OR INFUSION THEREOF; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; TEA; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR SUBSTITUTES; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a low-turbidity composition containing green tea catechin and calcium. SOLUTION: A ready-to-drink (RTD) beverage composition is produeced by a method including the process for treating a tea extract, the process includes providing a tea extract in a liquid form, combining the tea extract and a soluble calcium source, permitting the tea extract and soluble calcium source to interact under conditions sufficient to form a precipitate of insoluble calcium components, and separating the insoluble calcium components from the tea extract. The composition includes (1) at least about 100 ppm green tea catechins, (2) 1,000 mg of at least 10% of calcium per 250 mL of the composition, and arbitrarily selectively (3) a prescribed amount of one or more polyvalent mineral cations selected from magnesium, manganese, zinc, iron, and nuxtyres thereof, wherein the composition exhibits a turbidity of not more than 100 Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU). COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT