Soluble coffee products for producing beverages with enhanced flavors and aromas

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11160291-B2
Application number	US-201816192317-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 15, 2018
Priority date	Jul 9, 2008
Publication date	Nov 2, 2021
Grant date	Nov 2, 2021

Abstract

The present embodiments generally relate to beverages with enhanced flavors and aromas and method of making same. Some embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to soluble coffee and methods of making soluble coffee with improvements in such qualities as taste and aroma.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A soluble coffee product comprising:
a dry coffee extract component;
a pulverized coffee component; and
at least one of an aroma component, a nutritive additive, and a flavor additive;
wherein the pulverized coffee component has not been extracted;
wherein the pulverized coffee component is added to the dry coffee extract component before and after the dry coffee extract component is dried; and
wherein the at least one aroma component, nutritive additive, and flavor additive is combined with the dry coffee extract component after the coffee extract component has been dried.

2. The soluble coffee product of claim 1 , wherein the aroma component has been separated from the pulverized coffee component.

3. The soluble coffee product of claim 1 , wherein the dry coffee extract component comprises from about 70% to about 90% of the soluble coffee product and wherein the pulverized coffee component comprises from about 10% to about 30% of the soluble coffee product.

4. The soluble coffee product of claim 1 , wherein the dry coffee extract component comprises from about 70% to about 99.9% of the soluble coffee product, and wherein the pulverized coffee component comprises from about 0.1% to about 30% of the soluble coffee product.

5. The soluble coffee beverage of claim 1 , wherein the pulverized coffee product has a mean particle size of about 350 microns or less.

6. The soluble coffee beverage of claim 1 , wherein the pulverized coffee product has a median particle size of about 350 microns or less.

Assignees

• Starbucks Corp

Inventors

• Robinson Urano A
• Da Cruz J Marcio

Classifications

• A23F5/36 Primary

  Further treatment of dried coffee extract; Preparations produced thereby, e.g. instant coffee ({A23F5/246 takes precedence; } removing unwanted substances A23F5/18; flavouring A23F5/46) · CPC title

• A23F5/18

  from coffee extract {(A23F5/163 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• A23F5/405 Primary

  comprising ground coffee or ground coffee substitute particles · CPC title

• A23F5/267

  using additives, specific extraction media or specific coffee blends · CPC title

• A23F5/40

  using organic additives, e.g. milk, sugar · CPC title