Patent ID: 6814997
Filing Date: 2004-11-09
Classification: A23F

Abstract:
A process for providing a soluble coffee beverage powder, which, upon the addition of water, forms a coffee beverage having a foamed upper layer, which process comprises: providing, as ingredients, between 10% and 35% soluble coffee solids by weight of the total dry matter of the ingredients, from about 10% to about 35% pre-flocculated creamer by weight, and from about 12% to about 30% oligosaccharrides effective to dilute protein in the creamer by weight, mixing the ingredients to a wet mix with a liquid, incorporating gas into the wet mix, and drying the wet mix to a soluble beverage powder comprising a gas-containing matrix, which soluble beverage powder upon reconstitution with water provides a foamed upper layer based upon all of the ingredients, and in which substantially all foam is made up of bubbles having a diameter in the range of 0.05 to 0.5 mm.