Conopco, Inc.

Unilever Patent Holdings B.v.

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

Steven Peter Colliver

David George Sharp

Ambalavanar Thiru

Ian D Smith

Michael Alan Cooper

Peter Kiprotich Ngeno

Allen Griffiths

Alan David Peilow

Roy Thomas Dobb

Hendrikus Theodorus Wilhelmus Maria Van Der Hijden

Felix Kipkorir Mutai

Andrew Lee Downie

Xiaoqing You

Ian Smith

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.

Process for manufacturing tea products

The present invention provides a beverage precursor comprising tea material and food-grade additive, wherein the beverage precursor is present in an amount wherein contact of the beverage precursor with 250 ml water for 2 minutes at 90&#xb0; C. produces a beverage comprising catechins in an amount of between 0.05% and 2% by weight of the beverage. The present invention also provides a process for manufacturing a beverage precursor comprising macerating tea leaf and/or stem with a rotorvane and at least one CTC process.

Beverage precursor and process for the manufacture thereof

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.

A palatable green leaf tea fromvar.is disclosed. Infusion of 2 g of the leaf tea in 200 ml water for 1.5 minutes at 90&#xb0; C. produces a beverage comprising catechins in an amount of between 0.01 and 0.1% by weight of the beverage. Also disclosed is a process for manufacturing the leaf tea product wherein fresh leaf from var.is macerated using a combination of a rotorvane and double-cone processor.

Green leaf tea product and a process for the manufacture thereof

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 the field of improving nutritional content and more particularly the isoflavone content in plants. The invention provides a process for increasing the content of the isoflavone daidzein in selected plants, novel plants produced by this process and products derivable therefrom.

Nutritionally enhanced plants

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Steven Peter Colliver