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Title:
INSTANT GREEN TEA
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2009219411
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide an instant green tea which sufficiently gives a good taste and smell, when drunk, exhibits a vivid green color both as a powder and after dissolved in water, and scarcely shows sedimentation of the tea powder from the dissolution of the powder to the finish of the drinking.

Provided are the instant green tea containing a dry green tea extract, a drying auxiliary agent, antioxidants, a tea powder and a specific amount of potassium. A method for producing the instant green tea includes: a step of extracting tea leaves with an extraction solvent which contains a drying auxiliary agent and a first antioxidant and is adjusted to a pH value within the neutral range by using a first potassium preparation to give a liquid extract; a step of adding a second antioxidant and a tea powder to the liquid extract thus obtained; and a step of drying the liquid extract after the above addition step.


Inventors:
KIKUCHI TATSUYA
TANIGUCHI MASASHIGE
Application Number:
JP2008066660A
Publication Date:
October 01, 2009
Filing Date:
March 14, 2008
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Assignee:
ITO EN LTD
International Classes:
A23F3/30
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takehiko Suzue
Kurata Masatoshi
Satoshi Kono
Makoto Nakamura
Yoshihiro Fukuhara
Takashi Mine
Toshio Shirane
Sadao Muramatsu
Nobuhisa Nogawa
Kocho Chojiro
Naoki Kono
Katsu Sunagawa
Katsumura Hiro
Ryo Hashimoto
Tetsuya Kazama
Shoji Kawai
Tatsushi Sato
Takashi Okada
Mihoko Horiuchi
Takenori Masanori
Takuzo Ichihara
Yamashita Gen