A product having an internal substance protected by a rugged exterior shell is disclosed. The internal substance is reactive with the exterior shell but is separated therefrom by a coating on an interior surface of the external shell so that the product can be stored for a long period of time without the internal substance reacting with the exterior shell. The coating is meltable so that, when desired, the product may be heated (e.g. immersed in hot water or exposed to heat) in order to melt the coating so that the internal substance can react with the external shell so that the internal substance can excrete out of the exterior shell.

Disclosed herein are small molecule compounds that can be used to increase the overall quality of a coffee beverage. The flavor enhancing compounds can be combined with coffee at any stage of its processing to increase the cup score of a coffee beverage. In some embodiments, the flavor enhancing compounds include one or more caffeic ester compounds, for instance caffeic acid esterified with a cyclitol or related compound.

The present invention relates to a coffee additive with sweet taste and flavor prepared by preparing a black garlic caramel using a black garlic extract and then adding and stirring milk and heating the mixture at 85° C. to 90° C. for 5 to 10 minutes and has an excellent effect of providing a novel food material by reducing the bitter taste of commercial Espresso and imparting physiological functions of SAC and the like to existing coffee products such as Americano.

A system and method of manufacturing a fermented coffee formulation produces roasted and fermented coffee beans, fermented coffee juice, and a fermented coffee oil. The system includes a quantity of unprocessed coffee fruit, a quantity of primary fermentation blend, a supplemental fermentation blend, a first container, a second container, a roasting machine, and a cooling tray. The method begins by fermenting the quantity of unprocessed coffee fruit with the primary fermentation blend in the first container for coffee cherry juice. Then, a quantity of fermented coffee beans is separated from a quantity of fermented coffee fruit. In order to produce coffee beans, the quantity of fermented coffee beans is lightly roasted with the roasting machine, cooled with the cooling tray, and fermented again with the supplemental fermentation blend in the second container. A quantity of reroasted-and-refermented coffee beans is produced with the roasting machine. Fermented coffee oil is then extracted.

A system and method of manufacturing a fermented coffee formulation produces roasted and fermented coffee beans, fermented coffee juice, and a fermented coffee oil. The system includes a quantity of unprocessed coffee fruit, a quantity of primary fermentation blend, a supplemental fermentation blend, a first container, a second container, a roasting machine, and a cooling tray. The method begins by fermenting the quantity of unprocessed coffee fruit with the primary fermentation blend in the first container for coffee cherry juice. Then, a quantity of fermented coffee beans is separated from a quantity of fermented coffee fruit. In order to produce coffee beans, the quantity of fermented coffee beans is lightly roasted with the roasting machine, cooled with the cooling tray, and fermented again with the supplemental fermentation blend in the second container. A quantity of reroasted-and-refermented coffee beans is produced with the roasting machine. Fermented coffee oil is then extracted.

Provided are new alkenyl carbonothioates of formula (I), their manufacture and their use as flavours and fragrances. Also provided are flavour and fragrance compositions and edible products, in particular coffee products, comprising the new alkenyl carbonothioates.

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The present invention discloses a beverage displaying a printed design image upon a foamed portion of the beverage. The invention further discloses a device and method for same. In the invention, an automated printer is used, comprising a movable printing head, loaded with an edible liquid ink, to print a design of interest upon the beverage foam. In some embodiments, the beverage is coffee and the liquid ink is a second coffee essence. The invention additionally discloses business methods comprising printing an advertisement upon a foamed portion of a beverage, or selling a beverage displaying a printed image upon a foamed portion of the beverage.

The present invention relates to methods of reducing negative flavor attributes, such as bitterness, in coffee products. A coffee product with reduced perceptible bitterness may be prepared by providing a coffee product and adding vanillic acid to the coffee product.

The invention describes products, uses thereof, compositions thereof, and methods to prepare products formed from Maillard reaction products from a sugar donor and/or sweet tea extracts, stevia extracts, swingle (mogroside) extracts, one or more sweet tea extract components, one or more steviol glycosides, one or more mogrosides, one or more glycosylated sweet tea glycosides, one or more glycosylated steviol glycosides or one or more glycosylated mogrosides and an amine donor/reactant.

The present technology provides a method for preparing an acid-reducing filter that includes depositing a mineral blend layer to a filter substrate, where the mineral blend layer comprises calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate at a weight ratio of about 1:10 to about 10:1, the mineral blend is free of soluble halide or hydroxide salts of alkali or alkaline earth metals, and the mineral blend layer is insoluble in water.