Instant beverage tablet for producing a layered beverage

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9968112-B2
Application number	US-201515502042-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 4, 2015
Priority date	Aug 7, 2014
Publication date	May 15, 2018
Grant date	May 15, 2018

Abstract

An instant beverage tablet in the form of multilayer tablet for producing a layered beverage having one or more cream layer(s), coffee and/or cocoa layer(s) and optionally a foam upon reconstitution in a liquid comprising a dark component having sugar, coffee and/or cocoa particles for producing a dark layer; a white component having creamer and sugar for producing white layer; wherein the dark component has a density in the range of 0.5 to 0.7 g/cm 3 and wherein the white component has a density in the range of 0.74 to 0.9 g/cm 3 and wherein the dark component is compressed with a compaction pressure of at least 250 kPa and wherein the white component is compressed with a compaction pressure of at least 1250 kPa.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An instant beverage tablet in the form of a multilayer tablet for producing a layered beverage having at least one layer selected from the group consisting of a cream layer, coffee layer and cocoa layer comprising:
a dark component having sugar, coffee and/or cocoa particles for producing a dark layer;
a white component having creamer and sugar for producing white layer;
wherein the dark component is compressed with a compaction pressure of at least 250 kPa and wherein the white component is compressed with a compaction pressure of at least 1250 kPa; and
wherein the dark component has a density in the range of 0.5 to 0.7 g/cm 3 and wherein the white component has a density in the range of 0.74 to 0.9 g/cm 3 .

2. The tablet of claim 1 , wherein the tablet has a compressed dark layer portion and wherein the total moisture content of the dark component is below 6%.

3. The tablet of claim 2 , wherein the total moisture content of the dark component ranges between 1 to 4% by weight.

4. The tablet of claim 1 wherein the tablet is in the form of a multilayer tablet having a compressed white layer portion wherein the total moisture content of the white component is below 5%.

5. The tablet of claim 4 , wherein the total moisture content of the white component ranges between 2.5 to 4% by weight.

6. The tablet of claim 1 wherein the dissolution time (t90) of the dark component is less than 10 seconds.

7. The tablet of claim 6 wherein the dissolution time (t90) of the dark component is between 3 to 6 seconds.

8. The tablet of claim 1 wherein the dissolution time (t90) of the white component is less than 30 seconds.

9. The tablet of claim 8 wherein the dissolution time (t90) of the white component is between 13 to 20 seconds.

10. The tablet of claim 1 wherein the ratio of sugar:coffee for the dark component ranges between 1:1 to 3:1.

11. The tablet of claim 1 wherein the ratio of sugar:creamer for the white component ranges between 1:1 to 1:3.

12. The tablet of claim 1 wherein the creamer is selected from the group consisting of dairy creamer, non-dairy creamer, field-dairy creamer, fresh milk, milk powder, whole milk and skimmed milk.

13. The tablet of claim 1 wherein the sugar is selected from the group consisting of low-caloric sweeteners, maltose, maltodextrin, sucrose, lactose, fructose, glucose and galactose.

Assignees

• Nestec Sa

Inventors

• Forny Laurent
• Fries Lennart
• Meunier Vincent
• Niederreiter Gerhard
• Palzer Stefan
• Reh Christoph

Classifications

• A23F5/405

  comprising ground coffee or ground coffee substitute particles · CPC title

• A23L2/39

  Dry compositions · CPC title

• A23F5/385 Primary

  Tablets or other similar solid forms · CPC title

• A23C11/00

  Milk substitutes, e.g. coffee whitener compositions (cheese substitutes A23C20/00; preservation of milk substitutes A23B11/20; butter substitutes A23D) · CPC title

• A23L2/395 Primary

  in a particular shape or form · CPC title