Conopco, Inc.

Unilever Bestfoods, North America Division of Conopco, Inc.

Unilever Plc

Unilever, N.v.

Unilever Plc, a Company Registered in England and Wales Under Company No. 41424

Unilever Plc, a Company Registered in England and Wales Under Company No. 41424 of Unilever House

David George Sharp

Ian D Smith

Vijay Mukund Naik

Steven Peter Colliver

Christopher Michael Sidebottom

Alistair David Smith

Andrew Paul Ormerod

Michael Alan Cooper

Gurmeet Singh

Mark Kirkland

Stephen Matthew Morrey

Padma Balakrishnan

Allen Griffiths

Julie Debra Ralfs

Elliott Kirk

Michael Harry Asquith

Alan David Peilow

Hitesh Ghanshyam Bagaria

Xiaoqing You

Andrew Lee Downie

Theresa Jane Neely

Poovizhi Ponnammal Purushothaman

Ian Smith

Helen Jane Woolley

Felix Kipkorir Mutai

John Mutua Mutuku

Disclosed is a process comprising the steps of: expressing juice from a supply of fresh tea leaves thereby to produce leaf residue and tea juice; subjecting the supply of fresh tea leaves and/or the tea juice to a fermentation step thereby to at least partially ferment the tea juice; and combining the at least partially fermented tea juice with substantially unfermented tea material comprising active endogenous enzymes, thereby to form a mixture; and subjecting the mixture to an enzyme deactivation step thereby to prevent fermentation of the substantially unfermented tea material in the mixture.

Process for manufacturing tea products

Shown is a process having the steps of: providing fresh tea material rich in stem; and expressing juice from the fresh tea material thereby to produce stem residue and tea juice having a mixture of tea compounds.

Shown is a process having the steps of: expressing juice from fresh tea leaves thereby to produce leaf residue and tea juice, wherein the amount of expressed juice is between 10 and 300 ml per kg of the fresh tea leaves; and processing the leaf residue to produce leaf tea and/or a tea extract.

The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a green tea product with enhanced aroma. The method comprises the steps of: providing an aroma composition comprising E-2-hexenal and linalool in a weight ratio of at least 0.7:1; and combining the aroma composition with the tea product. Also provided are green tea products with enhanced aroma.

Method for the manufacture of a green tea product

The present invention relates to a process for the production of a frozen vegetable or part thereof, wherein said process comprises the steps:

Freezing vegetables

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Sharnbrook, United Kingdom

David George Sharp