A method for making a tea drink includes preparing water, receiving the water in a tank, pumping a hydrogen gas into the tank and mixing the hydrogen gas with the water to form saturated hydrogen water, sterilizing the saturated hydrogen water by ultraviolet light, performing a soaking step to immerse tea leaves into the saturated hydrogen water, refrigerating and keeping the tea leaves and the saturated hydrogen water at a temperature under 15 C. during a period of time of about 24-48 hours to make cold soaked tea, and performing a sealing step to seal the cold soaked tea in a container, to make a tea drink product.

A method of producing a beverage concentrate including contacting a plant material and/or plant extract with hot water to produce a beverage, wherein the concentration of the plant material and/or plant extract in the hot water is at least 100 grams per litre. The method further includes filtering the beverage to produce a filtrate, and producing a microbiologically stable beverage concentrate from the beverage or the beverage filtrate.

Beverages having an improvement in continuity of aftertaste caused by Rebaudioside D (RebD) and Rebaudioside M (RebM) and methods of production thereof. A content (A) of catechin compound(s) in beverages is adjusted to within a certain range, a total content (B) of RebM and/or RebD in beverages is adjusted to within a certain range, and B/A is adjusted to within a certain range.

The present invention relates to an extract obtained by extracting useful components containing equol from an equol-containing fermented soybean hypocotyl, and to a method for producing the same.

The present invention makes it possible to efficiently obtain useful components containing equol from the fermented soybean hypocotyl by subjecting an equol-containing fermented soybean hypocotyl to extraction using an ethanol aqueous solution as an extractant. The present invention reduces the content of saponin, which causes an unpleasant taste, by sequentially subjecting the equol-containing fermented soybean hypocotyl to extraction using an ethanol aqueous solution and ethanol, while efficiently extracting equol and glycitein.

A container stores a main liquid component that contains a dissolved gas, preferably nitrous oxide, separately from a foam initiator component that is at least one of a powder, a liquid or a concentrate. A dispensing part of the container, such as a dispensing lid, can contain the foam initi-ator component. The foam initiator component is dispersed and dissolved into the main liquid component to form a foaming ready to drink beverage. The foam initiator component comprises a portion of the ingredients of the ready to drink beverage. Combination of the foam initiator component with the main liquid component not only results in foam generation in the contain-er without any mechanical energy input additional to the opening of the container but also forms the ready to drink beverage.

Cold-brewed compositions and methods for preparing them are disclosed that comprise the general steps of: (a) adding together ingredients comprising unheated aqueous liquid, a variety of brewing ingredients, and emulsion stabilizers comprising polysaccharides to obtain various aqueous mixtures; (b) grinding brewing ingredients amidst the obtained aqueous mixtures for a period of 30 seconds to three minutes to obtain various dispersions of finely ground brewing particles; and (c) removing brewing particles large enough to be detected by the tongue or mouth to obtain a variety of novel cold-brewed compositions that possess stabilized emulsions.

Catechin compound(s)-containing beverages having reduced bitterness and astringency of catechin compound(s) while maintaining tea-like preferable flavors, methods of production thereof, and the like are provided. The content of catechin compound(s) in a beverage is adjusted to within a certain range, the total content of RebM and RebD in the beverage is adjusted to within a certain range, and the weight ratio of the total content of RebD and RebM to the content of the catechin compound(s) is adjusted to within a certain range.

The present invention relates to beverage products, in particular a liquid non-dairy creamer composition having a texture similar to a sweetened condensed milk or yogurt-like. The composition comprises oil in the range of 10-16 wt/wt %; caseinate salts in the range of 1.5 to 2.2 wt/wt %; mono-/diglycerides in the range of 0.13 to 0.3 wt/wt %; tartaric acid esters of monoglycerides in the range of 0.4 to 0.8 wt/wt %; kappa-carrageenan in the range of 0.06 to 0.09 wt/wt %; iota-carrageenan in the range of 0.05 to 0.11 wt/wt %; and guar gum in the range of 0.1 to 0.4 wt/wt %.

The present invention relates to a process for preparing a black tea extract, which comprises extracting black leaf tea particles having a particle size of less than 250 m with an acidic solution at a temperature of less than 35 C.

The present abstract for an invention describes the steps preparation process of green tea and the respective resulting product, wherein, in the initial step of the proposed process the young yerba mate leaves (buds) are undergone to steam at between 90 and 100 for a certain time, the moisture is removed from the steam step, and after passing through the steam (steaming) and twisting, the leaves are cooled (cooling), rolled (1.sup.st rolling), first drying (1.sup.st drying), second rolling(2.sup.nd rolling), second drying (2.sup.nd drying) and separation (segregation).