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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2006
Rei-young Amos Wu, Palatine, IL (US);
Richard Schutzenhofer, Naperville, IL (US);
Osvaldo A. Chu, Sarasota, FL (US);
Rei-Young Amos Wu, Palatine, IL (US);
Richard Schutzenhofer, Naperville, IL (US);
Osvaldo A. Chu, Sarasota, FL (US);
The Quaker Oats Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and system for producing a flavored beverage wherein the flavor is added in a separate step to a combination of the base ingredients after the base liquid has been pasteurized by, for example, thermal heating. The flavor can be added to a continuous stream of the base liquid after a thermally processed hot-fill beverage base liquid is made up. A return loop conduit of the hot-fill beverage base liquid portion of the system is capable of diverting the heated hot-fill beverage base liquid in a stable state, that is, at the desired temperatures ready for continued beverage production, while the flavor may be switched over in a downstream flavor dosing portion of the system. The system may be used to produce a desired batch of flavored beverage by producing a first flavor, cleaning only that portion of the system to remove the first flavor and then changing over the flavor additive component to a desired second flavor.