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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2006
Hidefumi Yamane, Sumida-ku, JP;
Yoshikazu Ogura, Sumida-ku, JP;
Yoko Sugiura, Sumida-ku, JP;
Tatsuya Kusaura, Sumida-ku, JP;
Hidefumi Yamane, Sumida-ku, JP;
Yoshikazu Ogura, Sumida-ku, JP;
Yoko Sugiura, Sumida-ku, JP;
Tatsuya Kusaura, Sumida-ku, JP;
Kao Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide a packaged coffee beverage, which contains chlorogenic acids at high concentration, has good flavor and taste, and is suppressed in the occurrence of sediment during long-term storage. A packaged coffee beverage subjected to heat sterilization treatment, the beverage comprising (A) monocaffeoylquinic acid, (B) feruloylquinic acid and (C) dicaffeoylquinic acid, wherein (a) a total content of the ingredients (A), (B) and (C) contained in dissolved states in the beverage is from 0.14 to 4% by weight based on the beverage, and the beverage comprises (b) 80% by weight or more of water, (c) magnesium and sodium at a Mg/Na weight ratio of from 0.04 to 1, (d) a coffee extract obtained from roasted coffee beans having an L value of form 16 to 25, and (e) from 0.0024 to 0.0122% by weight of brown color in terms of Food Yellow No. 4.