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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Philip Graham Humphrey, Raunds, GB;
Paul Thomas Quinlan, Kempston, GB;
Assignee:
Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23F / ; A23B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426597 ; 426 49 ;
Abstract
A leaf tea especially blended from a black tea and a green tea so that it contains catechins and phenols in a ratio between 0.15 to 0.4, but preferably between 0.2 and 0.3. Such a product resembles black tea but typically possesses an antioxidant activity that is 10% or more higher than that the same mass of the black tea alone. The black tea is preferably low grown while the green tea is preferably from an Assam jat.