A capsule that contains at least one ingredient for preparing an edible product by flowing water therethrough includes a water-inlet wall and a product-outlet wall. The product-outlet wall has at least a first, pierceable wall portion, and a second, pierceable wall portion. The second wall portion is recessed with respect to the first wall portion. The product-outlet wall is asymmetrical with respect to a longitudinal axis of symmetry of the capsule.

Pack (1) with an inner volume (2) in which at least two different food or beverage ingredients (71, 72) are stored and in which a beverage is produced when water is introduced inside, said inner volume (2) being defined by sheets of material (10) joined to one another at their edges and said inner volume (2) presenting a generally plane shape defining a plane (P) vertically oriented during beverage production, said pack comprising at least one inlet (3) for introducing water in the inner volume and at least one outlet (4) for delivering the beverage from said inner volume, said water inlet and said beverage outlet being positioned between two joined edges of the sheets of material (10), and wherein the inner volume (2) includes a plurality of compartments (21, 22), the compartments being separated by at least one releasable or separable bond (6).

The invention relates to a single-portion package (1) for producing a beverage from a beverage concentrate, comprising a closable concentrate container (2) for holding the beverage concentrate. According to the invention, the single-portion package (1) has an extraction and mixing device (3), comprising: an extraction means (4a, 4b) for extracting the beverage concentrate from the concentrate container (2), a mixing chamber (5) for preparing the beverage from the beverage concentrate extracted from the concentrate container (2) and from a mixing liquid that can be supplied, an inlet (6) for letting the mixing liquid into the mixing chamber (5), and an outlet (7) for letting the beverage out of the mixing chamber (5).

The invention concerns a pack (1) with an inner volume (2) in which a food or beverage ingredient (7) is stored and in which a beverage is produced when water is introduced inside, said inner volume (2) being defined by sheets of material (10) joined to one another at their edges and said inner volume (2) presenting a generally plane shape defining a plane (P) vertically oriented during beverage production, said pack comprising at least one inlet (3) for introducing water in the inner volume and at least one outlet (4) for delivering the beverage from said inner volume, said water inlet and said beverage outlet being included in at least one insert (5) and being positioned at the bottom of the pack and being at least partially positioned between two joined edges of the sheets of material (10), and wherein the pack comprises a liquid outlet (6) in at least one insert, said liquid outlet being closed by one sheet of material (10) defining the inner volume (2).

A spout assembly (10) for one or a plurality of food or beverage containers, each container comprising at least one ingredient for the preparation of a single or multiple product, the spout assembly (10) comprising at least one primary fluid inlet (11) and at least one secondary fluid inlet (12) through which a fluid can be supplied into one or a plurality of food or beverage containers, the fluid inlets (11, 12) being either connected to the same single container or each one of the fluid inlets (11, 12) being connected to one of the plurality of containers; at least one dispensing outlet (13) through which the single or multiple product is dispensed; the spout assembly (10) being configured in such a way that the fluid can be supplied into a single container or into a function of the single or multiple product to be dispensed.

The invention concerns pack (1) with an inner volume (2) in which a food or beverage ingredient (7) is stored and in which a beverage is produced when water is introduced inside,—said inner volume (2) being defined by two sheets of material (10) joined to one another at their edges and said inner volume (2) presenting a generally plane shape defining a plane (P) vertically oriented during beverage production,—said pack comprising at least one inlet (3) for introducing water in the inner volume and at least one outlet (4) for delivering the beverage from said inner volume, the water inlet (3) and the beverage outlet (4) being included in one single insert (5), said single insert (5) being positioned at the bottom of the pack and being partially positioned between two joined edges of the sheets of material (10), the water inlet (3) being oriented essentially perpendicularly to the plane (P) defined by the inner volume (2), and—wherein the single insert (5) comprises a centring hole (53) extending essentially perpendicularly to the generally plane (P) shape of the inner volume.

The present disclosure relates to a consumable (30) for use in a dispenser (10) for preparation of foodstuff products, the consumable (30) comprising a sealed housing (76) comprising at least one rigid wall portion (82) that is impermeable to liquid, a primary inlet portion (140) arranged to enable pressurized water flow into the housing (76), a secondary inlet portion (144) arranged to enable an auxiliary fluid flow, particularly an air flow, into the housing (76), at least one outlet portion (142) arranged to enable the processed foodstuff product to flow out of the housing (76), at least one containing chamber (102) arranged in the housing (76), the chamber containing a food substance (104), particularly a ground substance, at least one flow processing chamber (118) arranged to process a liquid solution that flows through the flow processing chamber (118), a flow transfer wall (110) arranged between the containing chamber (102) and the flow processing chamber (118), the flow transfer wall (110) comprising a defined flow opening (116) that connects the flow processing chamber (118) and the containing chamber (102), wherein the primary inlet portion (140) is connected to the containing chamber (102), and wherein the secondary inlet portion (144) is connected to the flow processing chamber (118) such that the auxiliary fluid flow is entrained by a liquid foodstuff flow that flows through the flow processing chamber (118) when processing the foodstuff product. The disclosure further relates to a processing unit (14) for a dispenser (10) and to a dispenser (10).

The invention relates to a pack (100) for the preparation of a food or beverage product comprising an insert (10) and a container (20), the container (20) being configured by at least one flexible sheet folded in such a way to configure a container where the ingredients for the food or beverage product are stored, the water to extract and/or infuse and/or dissolve and/or reconstitute the ingredients in the container (20) and to prepare the food or beverage product being introduced through the insert (10) through an injection hole (11) and into an inlet chamber (191), the food or beverage product once prepared being also dispensed through this insert (10), the pack (100) presenting a generally plane shape and being essentially vertically oriented during food or beverage production with the insert (10) arranged at the lower side of the pack (100) so the water is supplied into the volume of the container in an upward direction; such that the pack (100) further comprises an inlet channel (30) arranged at the inlet chamber (191) and extending vertically inside the volume of the container (20) in such a way that the water introduced via the insert (10) is conducted by the channel (30) and enters the inner volume of the container (20) through this channel (30), the height (Hpipe) of the channel (30) in the volume of the container being such that it is arranged above the ingredients in the container and allows the water exiting the channel (30) to wet the ingredients from the upper part of these, avoiding turbulence. The invention further relates to the use of a pack (100) for preparing a food or beverage product and to a method for preparing such a food or beverage product.

A beverage brewing system works with a pod to brew low, medium and high pressure beverages in hot and/or cold format such as coffee and espresso served hot or over ice. The beverage ingredient may be packed within a filter which is enclosed by a container to hermetically seal the filter. The filter has a predetermined number and sized holes to control the pressure within the filter to brew low, medium, and high pressure beverages. The filter is releasably sealed to the container where separating the filter from the container forms a gap to allow the beverage formed within the pod to drain via the gap and directly pour into a mug.

The invention relates to a capsule for the preparation of a beverage in a beverage machine by feeding liquid in the capsule and extracting a beverage out of the capsule, wherein the capsule comprises containment walls forming an interior cavity containing beverage precursor; wherein the beverage precursor comprises a combination of non-compacted beverage extractable powder and pellets of compacted beverage extractable powder and wherein the largest dimension of each pellet is at least 3.5 millimeters. The invention enables to confer different beverage characteristics, for example, change the beverage extraction and aroma release kinetics, make more intense beverages and/or improve the beverage flow released from the capsule.