	US 12,232,507 B2
	Coffee beverage having improved quality of taste exhibited by sugar, sweetener, and sodium
Yoji Asami, Kanagawa (JP); Tadahiro Ohkuri, Kanagawa (JP); Akiko Fujie, Kanagawa (JP); Koji Nagao, Kanagawa (JP); and Yoshiaki Yokoo, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED, Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/299,833
Filed by SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED, Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 6, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/047914 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 4, 2021, PCT Pub. No. WO2020/116637, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 11, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-230399 (JP), filed on Dec. 7, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0022480 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. A23F 5/28 (2006.01); A23F 5/24 (2006.01)

CPC A23F 5/28 (2013.01) [A23F 5/243 (2013.01)]

19 Claims

1. A coffee beverage comprising:

(a) a natural sugar in an amount corresponding to a sweetness intensity X1;

(b) a high-intensity sweetener in an amount corresponding to a sweetness intensity X2; and

wherein the high-intensity sweetener comprises at least one high-intensity sweetener b1 selected from the group consisting of rebaudioside M, rebaudioside D, rebaudioside N, rebaudioside O, rebaudioside E, and thaumatin; and

0.1< (X1+X2)≤20 is satisfied, and

wherein the sweetness intensity X1 and X2 are obtained by multiplying a degree of sweetness of the natural sugar or high-intensity sweetener by the concentration Brix value of the natural sugar or high-intensity sweetener, when the degree of sweetness of sucrose per unit concentration Brix 1 is defined as a degree of sweetness of 1.