Preparation and incorporation of co-products into beverages to enhance nutrition and sensory attributes

• US 10,667,546 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2014
• Issued: 06/02/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tropicana Products Incorporated (PepsiCo Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: PepsiCo Incorporated
• Inventors: Bala, Sundar, Hitchcock, Bryan William, Hsieh, MongJan, Jordan, Rachel Lisa, Mathews, Jeffrey David, Rivera, Teodoro, Shin, Jin-E, Small, II, William B.
• Primary Examiner(s): George, Patricia A
• Application Number:
  US14/766,828
• Publication Number:
  US 20160000130A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,307 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 2/02 containing fruit or vegetable juices
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 2/04 Extraction of juices machines or apparatus for extracting juice A23N1/00, A47J19/00
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 2/52 Adding ingredients adding preservatives A23L2/44
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 33/22 Comminuted fibrous parts of plants, e.g. bagasse or pulp
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2002/00 Food compositions, function of food ingredients or processes for food or foodstuffs

Abstract

Co-products from juice extraction, in particular for use in beverage and food products to enhance nutrition and sensory attributes of the products, are provided. The co-product has a number average particle size of between 1 and 2000 microns, a total polyphenol content of at least 2500 parts per million, a moisture content of between 70% and 85% by weight, and a combined peel and seed content between 0.01% and 20% by weight.

Claims

1. A beverage comprising:

juice; and

a co-product from juice extraction, wherein the co-product comprises a number average particle size of between 0.1 and 2000 microns, a total polyphenol content of at least 2500 parts per million, a moisture content of between 70% and 85% by weight, and a combined peel and seed content between 0.01% and 20% by weight; and

wherein a viscosity of 8 ounces of the beverage comprising at least 10 wt % of the co-product is at least 300 cps at 25°

C.

2. The beverage of claim 1, wherein the co-product comprises citrus pomace co-product.

3. The beverage of claim 2, wherein the juice comprises orange juice.

4. The beverage of claim 1, wherein the viscosity of 8 ounces of the beverage comprising about 15 wt % of the co-product is about 1100 cps at 25°

C.

5. The beverage of claim 1, wherein the co-product comprises between about 6% and about 20% by weight fiber, wherein the fiber of the co-product comprises both insoluble fiber and soluble fiber.

6. The beverage of claim 5, wherein the fiber of the co-product comprises a ratio of soluble fiber to insoluble fiber of about 1:

2.

7. The beverage of claim 1, wherein the co-product comprises a combined peel and seed content between 0.01% and 2% by weight.

8. The beverage of claim 1, wherein 8 ounces of the beverage comprising about 10 wt % of the co-product further comprises at least 2 grams of fiber.

9. The beverage of claim 1, wherein the viscosity of 8 ounces of the beverage comprising about 20 wt % of the co-product is about 3400 cps at 25°

C.

10. The beverage of claim 9, wherein 8 ounces of the beverage comprising about 20 wt % of the co-product further comprises at least 5 grams of fiber.