Patent ID: 8293299

Claim:
A flavored beverage concentrate having a pH of about 1.9 to about 2.4, the flavored beverage concentrate comprising: about 30 to about 65 percent water by weight; about 15.0 to about 30.0 percent acid by weight; up to about 10.0 percent buffer by weight selected from the group consisting of a potassium salt of an acid, a sodium salt of an acid, and combination thereof; and about 1.0 to about 30.0 percent flavoring by weight; the acid and buffer included in a ratio of about 1:1 to about 60:1, the ratio of the acid and buffer selected to provide the concentrate with at least about 5 times more acid than an otherwise identical non-buffered concentrate having the same pH, and the concentrate having a concentration such that when diluted at a ratio of about 1:75 to about 1:160 to provide a beverage, the concentrate delivers about 0.01 to 0.8 percent acid by weight of the beverage made by the flavored beverage concentrate.