Patent ID: 7771770

Claim:
A heat-sterilized packaged coffee drink comprising (A) monocaffeoylquinic acid, (B) ferulaquinic acid and (C) dicaffeoylquinic acid, the drink comprising (i) a total of from 0.25 to 3% by mass of the components (A), (B) and (C) in a dissolved state, (ii) 80% by mass or more of water (iii) an amount of brown colorant to achieve an equivalent degree of coloration as compared to that achieved from a 0.005 to 0.028% by mass solution of edible yellow dye No. 4, (iv) magnesium ions and sodium ions in a mass ratio of magnesium ions/sodium ions of from 0.17 to 0.5, and v) quinic acid in a mass ratio of quinic acid/brown colorant of from 11.8 to 14.1, wherein the amount of brown colorant achieves an equivalent degree of coloration as compared to that achieved from a 0.005 to 0.028% by mass solution of edible yellow dye No. 4 as in (iii).