Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Products per se – or processes of preparing or treating... – Beverage or beverage concentrate
Patent
1997-12-01
2000-03-14
Weier, Anthony J.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Products per se, or processes of preparing or treating...
Beverage or beverage concentrate
426 49, A23F 300, A23B 710
Patent
active
060369914
ABSTRACT:
A leaf tea especially blended from a black tea and a green tea so that it contains catechins and phenols in a ratio between 0.15 to 0.4, but preferably between 0.2 and 0.3. Such a product resembles black tea but typically possesses an antioxidant activity that is 10% or more higher than that the same mass of the black tea alone. The black tea is preferably low grown while the green tea is preferably from an Assam jat.
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Humphrey Philip Graham
Quinlan Paul Thomas
Farrell James J.
Lipton division of Conopco, Inc.
Weier Anthony J.
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