Patent ID: 7032818

Claim:
A food package for delivering a beverage-forming product to a dispenser configured to prepare and dispense a beverage product from the beverage-forming product by diluting said beverage-forming product with a diluent in the dispenser comprising a single-serving or multi-serving receptacle having at least one wall member that defines an enclosure, a beverage-forming product present within the enclosure; wherein the beverage-forming product is configured for providing a beverage product when diluted with diluent in the dispenser, and a programmable tag associated with the beverage-forming product or single-serving or multi-serving receptacle, wherein the programmable tag includes machine-readable information regarding the product which information is programmed at the manufacturing plant and includes instructions or a verification code in electronic form for controlling at least one of preparation of a beverage from the beverage-forming product in the dispenser or dispensing of a beverage from the dispenser, wherein the programmable tag comprises preparation instructions or data relevant for configurating the dispenser as to the preparation of the beverage.