Patent ID: 8603557

Claim:
A packaged flavored liquid beverage concentrate comprising: a container body having a closed bottom end, a top end with a neck defining an outlet opening and a sidewall extending between the top and bottom ends to define an interior of the container body accessible through the outlet of the top end, the sidewall being flexible and resilient, the sidewall including opposing front and rear walls and a pair of opposing end walls extending therebetween, the opposing front and rear walls having a maximum width that is greater than a maximum width of the end walls; a flavored liquid beverage concentrate in the interior of the container body comprising: about 30 to about 65 percent water by weight; about 15 to about 30 percent acid by weight; up to about 10 percent buffer by weight, the buffer selected from the group consisting of a potassium salt of an acid, a sodium salt of an acid, and combination thereof; and about 1 to about 30 percent flavoring by weight, the concentrate having a pH of about 1.9 to about 2.4 and a viscosity of about 1 to about 75 cP when measured at 20° C., 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 about 0.8 percent acid by weight of the beverage made by the flavored beverage concentrate; a lid attached to the neck of the container body and defining an exit path aligned with the outlet opening of the container body and through which the flavored liquid beverage concentrate can be dispensed; and a valve supported by the lid and disposed in the exit path, the valve movable from a closed position, whereby flow of flavored liquid beverage concentrate through the exit path is substantially blocked when the sidewall of the container body is unsqueezed, to an open position, whereby the flavored liquid beverage concentrate from the interior of the container body can be dispensed in a jet when the front and rear walls of the sidewall of the container body are squeezed.