Patent ID: 6855358

Claim:
A nutraceutical beverage produced by the process comprising: forming a nutraceutical comprising forskohlin, hydroxycitric acid, and salts thereof, and fructooligosaccharides, wherein a weight of forskohlin to a weight of said hydroxycitric acid, and salts thereof, is a ratio of about 1 to about 3, and wherein a weight of said forskohlin to a weight of said fructooligosaccharides is in a ratio of about 1 to about 10; forming a shelf-stable syrup, wherein said forskohlin, hydroxycitric acid, and salts thereof, and fructooligosaccharides are introduced into water to form said shelf-stable syrup having a dissolved solid content between about 65 and about 75 brix by weight; heating said shelf-stable syrup to a temperature between about 138° C. and about 145° C. for between about 2 and about 8 seconds; ozonating at least a part of a purified water to form an ozonated purified water having a dissolved ozone concentration between about 0.2 and about 0.4 mg/L; providing a container having an internal volume at least equal to a nutraceutical volume and a purified water volume, said container including a sealable opening communicating with said internal volume; adding said ozonated purified water to said container in the amount of said purified water volume; adding said shelf-stable syrup to said container in the amount of said nutraceutical volume; adding a supplemental sterilizing agent having about 0.25 to about 0.5 mg/L copper to a volume selected from the group consisting of said nutraceutical volume and said purified water volume; and sealing said sealable opening of said container, thereby providing a purified water based nutraceutical beverage.