Patent ID: 7610848

Claim:
A dispensing machine comprising: (a) a conduit for transporting beverage enhancing component attached to a storage device comprising beverage enhancing component, wherein the beverage enhancing component is selected from the group consisting of flavor-, aroma-, color-generating component, and mixtures thereof; and (b) a single pre-pump conduit attached to a storage compartment comprising beverage precursor wherein the beverage precursor is pumped within the dispensing machine with a food grade pump and is mixed with a heated diluent, and the beverage enhancing component is transported to the beverage precursor through an eductor placed within a non-heated diluent conduit and further wherein the non-heated mixture of the beverage enhancing component and non-heated diluent mixes with the heated mixture of beverage precursor and a heated diluent within the diluent mixture conduit comprising the beverage enhancing component and eductor, or another diluent conduit free of an eductor, and the dispensing machine has an exit head that does not comprise an eductor.