Ito En, Ltd.

Hirokazu Hosoyama

Takanobu Takihara

Kozo Nagata

Akio Sugimoto

Naomi Furuse

Hiroshi Kinugasa

Hikari Kato

With the object of providing a bottleable green tea beverage for selling hot, a bottleable green tea beverage was prepared, which is a bottleable green tea beverage containing a green tea extract obtained by extracting green tea leaves, wherein the content in epigallocatechin gallate and gallocatechin gallate is 380 mg/l to 1500 mg/l as a total value, the content of glutamic acid is 20 mg/l to 120 mg/l, the diff-use transmittance is 1.0% or less, and the pH is 5 to 7.

Bottleable green tea beverage

The present invention has an object which is not to allow a characteristic discomfort smell to generate in processing brassicaceous vegetables typical of cabbages. According to the present invention are provided processes in which after pretreatment of loosening whole vegetables, heat treatment is carried out by directly applying steam to them in such a manner that the temperature of the vegetables is allowed to maintain in the range of about 80 to 95&deg; C., followed by subsequent chopping and squeezing steps. The heat treatment can result in deactivating enzymes causing a discomfort smell, and the activation of enzymes can be suppressed also during the chopping and squeezing steps, and consequently no formation of a nasty smell characteristic of brassicaceous vegetables can be achieved.

Method for treating brassicaceous vegetables and producing brassicaceous vegetable beverages

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Shizuoka, Japan

Hirokazu Hosoyama