Patent ID: 8871289

Claim:
A stable, sweetened, lightly textured, low calorie acidic milk drink free of conventional stabilizers having: 1.1 to 4.6% by mass polydextrose and 6.2 to 9.5% by mass sugar, wherein the mass ratio of the polydextrose to the sugar ranges from 10:90 to 42:58; a SNF (solids-not-fat) content ranging from 1.0 to 4.0%, and a caloric content ranging from 45 to 58 kcal/ml; wherein said stable, sweetened, light acidic milk beverage does not contain the conventional stabilizers carboxymethyl cellulose, propylene glycol alginate, carrageenan, locust bean gum or soybean polysaccharides; wherein said stable, sweetened, light acidic milk beverage has been stabilized without heating the sweetened, light acidic milk beverage above 100° C.; and wherein the acidic milk drink is stable as determined by the absence of precipitation or whey-off after its storage at 10° C. for 14 days.