Patent ID: 6921549
Filing Date: 2005-07-26
Classification: A23L,A23V

Abstract:
1. In the method of preparing a proficiency beverage containing water, carbohydrates, and flavors, the improvement which consists of preparing an acidic solution of about 0.2 molar citric acid, dispersing into such relatively concentrated citric acid solution a relatively large amount of polyglucose having an average molecular weight of about 9 glycoside units per molecule, allowing such aqueous dispersion of citric acid and such polyglucose to age for at least ten minutes, adding an artificial sweetener, modifying salts, and other flavors to such acidic dispersion, adding several parts of water while stirring for at least ten minutes to prepare a proficiency beverage having a pH within the range from 3.2 to 3.5, said beverage not having the sourness to be expected from a beverage having such an acidic pH by reason of such artificial sweetener.