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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2014
Conopco, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US);
Michael Alan Cooper, Northamptonshire, GB;
Ian Smith, Sharnbrook, GB;
Conopco, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US);
Abstract
Shown is a process for manufacturing a fabricated leaf tea product. The process includes the steps of: (i) providing a concentrated liquid tea composition; (ii) providing a base leaf tea; (iii) combining the concentrated liquid tea composition with the base leaf tea to form a tea mixture having a total soluble solids content of at least 50% by dry weight of the mixture; and (iv) drying the tea mixture. At least 20% by weight of the base leaf tea has a particle size of +16 mesh and/or the tea mixture is sorted according to particle size to yield a fraction wherein at least 20% by weight of the fraction has a particle size of +16 mesh; and the time between forming the tea mixture (step iii) and drying (step iv) is at least 5 minutes.
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