PACKAGED COFFEE DRINK

Title:

PACKAGED COFFEE DRINK

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO/2006/098232

Kind Code:

A1

Abstract:

It is intended to provide a packaged coffee drink which contains chlorogenic acids at a high concentration, has a favorable flavor and suffers from little sedimentation during prolonged storage. A thermally sterilized and packaged coffee drink containing (A) monocaffeoylquinic acid, (B) ferulaquinic acid and (C) dicaffeoylquinic acid and having the following properties: (i) the sum of the contents of the above components (A), (B) and (C) dissolved in the drink amounting to 0.14 to 4% by mass based on the packaged drink; (ii) containing 80% by mass or more of water; (iii) having a mass ratio of magnesium/sodium of from 0.04 to 1; (iv) being a packaged coffee drink containing a coffee extract obtained from roasted coffee beans having an L value of from 16 to 25; and (v) containing from 0.0024 to 0.0122% by mass (in terms of Edible Yellow No.4) of a brown dye.

Inventors:

YAMANE HIDEFUMI (JP)
OGURA YOSHIKAZU (JP)
SUGIURA YOKO (JP)
KUSAURA TATSUYA (JP)

Application Number:

PCT/JP2006/304716

Publication Date:

September 21, 2006

Filing Date:

March 10, 2006

Export Citation:

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Assignee:

KAO CORP (JP)
YAMANE HIDEFUMI (JP)
OGURA YOSHIKAZU (JP)
SUGIURA YOKO (JP)
KUSAURA TATSUYA (JP)

International Classes:

A23F5/24

Foreign References:

JP2003204756A	2003-07-22
JP2003204755A	2003-07-22
JP2003284496A	2003-10-07
JPH11225673A	1999-08-24
EP1856962A1	2007-11-21

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