US 12,185,735 B2
Beverage composition useful in beverage capsules
Stefan Palzer, Lausanne (CH); Marie-Laure Jung, Saint-Legier (CH); Celine Sarrazin-Horisberger, Suchy (CH); Amrit Maharaj, Dublin, OH (US); and Gerhard Niederreiter, Vevey (CH)
Assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A., Vevey (CH)
Filed by SOCIÉTÉ DES PRODUITS NESTLÉ S.A., Vevey (CH)
Filed on Jul. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/223,301.
Application 18/223,301 is a division of application No. 16/462,288, abandoned, previously published as PCT/EP2017/082791, filed on Dec. 14, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/438,578, filed on Dec. 23, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0354843 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. A23F 5/40 (2006.01); A23F 5/26 (2006.01); B65D 85/804 (2006.01)
CPC A23F 5/405 (2013.01) [A23F 5/26 (2013.01); B65D 85/8043 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
 
1. A method of producing a coffee beverage in a beverage preparation apparatus, the method comprising:
providing a beverage capsule containing a dried roast and ground coffee mixture prepared by a process comprising the steps of:
roasting and grinding coffee beans into roast and ground coffee beans,
extracting a portion of the roast and ground coffee beans with water at an extraction temperature below 60° C. to form a liquid extract, and drying the liquid extract to form a dried coffee extract,
mixing a remainder of the roast and ground coffee beans with the dried coffee extract to form the dried roast and ground coffee mixture, and
filling a chamber of the beverage capsule with the dried roast and ground coffee mixture;
inserting the beverage capsule into the beverage preparation apparatus which is adapted to receive the beverage capsule;
heating, by the beverage preparation apparatus, water; and
injecting, by the beverage preparation apparatus, the water into the beverage capsule to form the coffee beverage,
wherein the water is injected into the beverage capsule at an injection temperature between 2° C. and 30° C.