Nestec S.a.

Nestec Ltd

Societe Des Produits Nestle S.a.

Olaf Wehrspann

Shen-Youn Chang

Paul M Lin

Klaus Schlecht

Joseph Burri

Heinz Wyss

Marc Furrer

Xiaoping Fu

Claude Sartorio

Daniela Doris Munz-Schaerer

Ulrich Kessler

Hélène Michèle Jeanne Chanvrier

Michael Desmond Kauter

Helene Michele Chanvrier

Mathalai Balan Sudharsan

Marc Georges Dreyer

Jean-Louis Duffey

A complete, nutritionally balanced coffee drink providing caloric and protein nutritional support for patients, particularly elderly and long-term care patients is provided. An instant coffee composition, a method for making the instant coffee composition and coffee drink made therefrom are described. The composition and drink has a caloric distribution including from about 16% to 30% of a protein component, from about 40% to 60% of a carbohydrate component and from about 15% to 33% of a lipid component. The instant coffee composition readily dissolves in hot water to provide a beverage which looks and tastes like black coffee which may be administered to a patient in need of nutritional support.

Complete, nutritionally balanced coffee drink

Method for manufacturing a balanced, nutritionally complete coffee

A soluble coffee beverage powder which, upon the addition of water, is capable of forming a coffee beverage having a foamed upper surface. The soluble beverage powder is made up of a soluble whitener powder containing gas and a soluble coffee powder of delayed water solubility. Upon addition of water, the soluble whitener powder dissolves first and hence it is possible to obtain whiter, stable foams.

Soluble coffee beverage product

Coffee oil is separated from a filtered extract produced by counter-current extraction and the separated oil is incorporated into soluble coffee powder.

Obtention and use of coffee oil

Extraction yield of coffee extracted in a countercurrent extraction system is increased by separating sludge by centrifugation from coffee extract obtained from the system and introducing the sludge into at least one extraction cell of the system so that the sludge may be hydrolyzed during the extraction of the coffee.

Process for increasing coffee extraction yield

Growing community of inventors

Orbe, Switzerland

Olaf Wehrspann