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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 1988
Filed:
Jan. 20, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joseph L Owades, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L / ; A23L / ; A23L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426 29 ; 426 64 ; 426590 ;
Abstract
A method for preparing an alcohol-free barley malt-based beverage of reduced caloric content is described. In a preferred embodiment, the method consists of adding to a conventionally procssed Malta beverage, following boiling, cooling and filtering, but prior to packaging an amylolytic enzyme system. The amylolytic enzyme system converts te maltose and complex carbohydrates (dextrins) present in the beverage extract to simple, sweet-tasting dextrose.