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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2017
Applicant:
Conopco Inc., D/b/a Unilever, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Mansoor Ahmed Ansari, Sharnbrook, GB;
Andrew Paul Ormerod, Sharnbrook, GB;
Benjamin Jesukumar Rajapandian, Bebington, GB;
Assignee:
Conopco Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23F 3/14 (2006.01); A23F 3/32 (2006.01); A23F 3/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A23F 3/14 (2013.01); A23F 3/32 (2013.01); A23F 3/40 (2013.01); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention provides porous tea granules including leaf tea particles and binder, wherein at least 50% by weight of the leaf tea particles have a particle size of 100 μm to 300 μm; the binder is a tea-based binder including tea solids; the tea granules including binder in an amount of 1 to 40% by dry weight; and the porous tea granules have a D[4,3] of more than 350 μm.