阅读说明：本技术 水浓缩液、水制剂和调制饮品的方法 (Aqueous concentrate, aqueous preparation and method for preparing drink ) 是由 林伟杰 江宗翰 于 2020-04-23 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明属于食品技术领域,尤其涉及一种水浓缩液、水制剂和调制饮品的方法。本发明提供的水浓缩液包含：钙离子3000-15000ppm；镁离子1500-20000ppm；钠离子700-1500ppm；钾离子400-1200ppm；水浓缩液的硬度为35000-90000ppm,pH值为6-9。本发明提供的水制剂用于调制饮品,由上述水浓缩液稀释而成,且稀释倍数为500-1500。本发明提供的调制饮品的方法,包括：提供上述水制剂以及饮品原料；将水制剂冲泡饮品原料,获得饮品。通过采用上述水浓缩液和水制剂调制饮品,可提高咖啡或茶等饮品原料中活性成分的萃取效率,有利于提升饮品的风味口感和保健效果。(The invention belongs to the technical field of food, and particularly relates to a water concentrate, a water preparation and a method for preparing a beverage. The present invention provides an aqueous concentrate comprising: 3000 + 15000ppm of calcium ions; magnesium ion 1500-; 700 ppm of sodium ion; potassium ion 400-; the hardness of the water concentrate is 35000-. The water preparation provided by the invention is used for preparing drinks and is prepared by diluting the water concentrate, and the dilution factor is 500-1500. The method for preparing the beverage provided by the invention comprises the following steps: providing the water preparation and beverage raw materials; and (4) brewing the water preparation with the beverage raw materials to obtain the beverage. By adopting the water concentrated solution and the water preparation to prepare the drink, the extraction efficiency of active ingredients in drink raw materials such as coffee or tea can be improved, and the flavor and the taste and the health-care effect of the drink can be improved.)

1. An aqueous concentrate comprising the following components in the following concentrations:

wherein the hardness of the water concentrate is 35000-90000ppm, and the pH value is 6-9.

2. The water concentrate of claim 1, comprising the following concentrations of components:

the hardness of the water concentrate is 35000-40000 ppm.

3. The water concentrate of claim 1, comprising the following concentrations of components:

the hardness of the water concentrate was 80000-90000 ppm.

4. The water concentrate of claim 1, further comprising bicarbonate at a concentration of less than 17000 ppm.

5. The water concentrate of claim 1, further comprising chloride ions at a concentration of 20000-.

6. The water concentrate of claim 1, wherein the water concentrate is extracted and concentrated from deep sea water originating from the eastern Taiwan sea area of 600-700 m depth.

7. A water preparation for preparing a drink, which is diluted with the water concentrate of claim 1 by a dilution factor of 500-1500.

8. The water formulation of claim 7, wherein the water concentrate comprises the following concentrations of components:

the hardness of the water concentrate is 35000-40000 ppm.

9. The water formulation of claim 7, wherein the water concentrate comprises the following concentrations of components:

the hardness of the water concentrate was 80000-90000 ppm.

10. The water formulation of claim 7, wherein the water concentrate further comprises bicarbonate at a concentration of less than 17000 ppm.

11. The water formulation of claim 7 wherein the water concentrate further comprises chloride ions at a concentration of 20000-.

12. The water formulation as claimed in claim 7, wherein the water concentrate is obtained by extracting and concentrating deep sea water from eastern Taiwan sea areas with a depth of 600-700 m.

13. The water formulation of claim 7, comprising the following concentrations of components:

the hardness of the water preparation is 40-120 ppm.

14. The water formulation of claim 7, comprising the following concentrations of components:

the hardness of the water formulation was 47.9 ppm.

15. The water formulation of claim 7, comprising the following concentrations of components:

the hardness of the water formulation was 104.6 ppm.

16. A method of brewing a beverage, comprising the steps of:

providing the water formulation of claim 7 and a beverage base;

and brewing the water preparation with the beverage raw material to obtain the beverage.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the beverage material is at least one of tea leaves, tea bags, ground coffee, coffee beans, and coffee capsules.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the beverage is coffee and/or tea.

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of food, and particularly relates to a water concentrate, a water preparation and a method for preparing a beverage.

Background

Water is an important component of all living organisms, for example, water accounts for 70% of the human body, participates in biochemical reactions, transportation of nutrients and oxygen in the human body, and contributes greatly to maintaining the temperature of the living organisms.

Drinks are currently the main routes for people to ingest water, including but not limited to coffee, tea, soda, milk, fruit juice, and the like. With the improvement of living standard, the requirements of people on beverages are more rigorous, and convenience is no longer the only requirement on the beverages. What people need is not only a cup of beverage capable of quenching thirst, but also a cup of good beverage, and the beverage is required to have good taste and flavor, and also required to have a certain degree of health care function.

Conventionally, the taste of beverages such as tea or coffee depends on beverage raw materials such as tea leaves, coffee beans or powder thereof, or factors such as the brewing temperature, sequence or method of the beverages, and in order to improve the taste and flavor of the beverages such as tea or coffee, a series of researches on beverage raw materials and beverage brewing processes have been conducted, for example, patent US20120244254a1 discloses a method for treating coffee beans, patent US20190231738a1 discloses a method for maximizing the content of epigallocatechin and gallate of tea, and patent publication US20170143155a1 discloses a method for preparing tea drinks, however, there are few technical researches on the improvement of the quality of beverages by using water for brewing beverages.

Disclosure of Invention

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a water concentrate and a water preparation, which are intended to improve the taste and flavor of a drink by using an improved water for brewing the drink.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a method for brewing beverages.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

in a first aspect, the present invention provides an aqueous concentrate comprising the following components in the following concentrations:

wherein the hardness of the water concentrate is 35000-90000ppm, and the pH value is 6-9.

In one embodiment, the aqueous concentrate comprises the following concentrations of components:

in one embodiment, the aqueous concentrate comprises the following concentrations of components:

in one embodiment, the water concentrate further comprises bicarbonate in a concentration of less than 17000 ppm.

In one embodiment, the water concentrate further comprises chloride ions at a concentration of 20000-.

In one embodiment, the water concentrate is refined and concentrated from deep sea water originating from the eastern Taiwan sea area of 600-700 m depth.

In a second aspect, the invention provides a water preparation for preparing a beverage, which is diluted by the above water concentrate, and the dilution factor is 500-1500.

In one embodiment, the aqueous concentrate comprises the following concentrations of components:

in one embodiment, the aqueous concentrate comprises the following concentrations of components:

in one embodiment, the water concentrate further comprises bicarbonate in a concentration of less than 17000 ppm.

In one embodiment, the water concentrate further comprises chloride ions at a concentration of 20000-.

In one embodiment, the water concentrate is refined and concentrated from deep sea water originating from the eastern Taiwan sea area of 600-700 m depth.

In one embodiment, the aqueous formulation comprises the following concentrations of components:

in one embodiment, the aqueous formulation comprises the following concentrations of components:

in one embodiment, the aqueous formulation comprises the following concentrations of components:

in a third aspect, the present invention provides a method of brewing a beverage, comprising the steps of:

providing the water preparation and beverage raw materials;

and brewing the water preparation with the beverage raw material to obtain the beverage.

In one embodiment, the beverage raw material is at least one of tea leaves, tea bags, ground coffee, coffee beans and coffee capsules.

In one embodiment, the beverage is coffee and/or tea.

The water concentrate provided by the invention comprises calcium ions with the concentration of 3000-15000ppm, magnesium ions with the concentration of 1500-20000ppm, sodium ions with the concentration of 700-1500ppm and potassium ions with the concentration of 400-1200ppm, the hardness is 35000-90000ppm, and the pH value is 6-9. In the practical application process, the water concentrate can be diluted by purified water to be used as brewing water for brewing coffee or tea, is convenient to use, is beneficial to storage and transportation, is suitable for enterprises or users needing a large amount of drinks such as coffee houses, tea drinking shops or restaurants, and the like, and the coffee or tea obtained by brewing has good flavor and taste and has wide market prospect.

The water preparation provided by the invention is prepared by diluting the water concentrated solution according to the dilution times of 500-1500, and when the water preparation is used as brewing water for preparing beverages, the extraction efficiency of active ingredients in beverage raw materials such as coffee or tea can be improved, and the flavor, taste and health-care effect of the beverages can be improved. Tests show that compared with coffee brewed by pure water, the coffee brewed by the water preparation of the invention is rich in active ingredients such as malic acid, lactic acid, acetic acid, total organic acid, eugenol, quinic acid and the like, and the content of functional substances such as citric acid and the like is increased by up to 229%; compared with the tea brewed by pure water, the content of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) in the tea brewed by the water preparation is improved by 85 percent.

The method for preparing the beverage is obtained by brewing the beverage raw materials by the water preparation, is simple and easy to operate, and the obtained beverage is rich in active ingredients such as amino acids, flavonoids, polyphenols, terpenoids, alkaloids and organic acids, has good flavor and mouthfeel, and can improve the health-care function of the beverage to a certain extent.

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FIG. 1 shows the results of measuring the content of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) in tea of example 8 and comparative example 2;

fig. 2 is a graph showing the results of measuring the contents of malic acid, citric acid, lactic acid, acetic acid, caffeine and total chlorogenic acid in the coffees of example 6 and comparative example 1.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical problems, technical solutions and advantageous effects to be solved by the present invention more clearly apparent, the present invention is further described in detail below with reference to the following embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

In the description of the embodiments of the present invention, the term "ppm" is used as an ion concentration unit, and means a concentration expressed by parts per million of solute mass in the total solution mass, which is also called a ppm concentration. Meanwhile, the concentration of each ionic component may refer not only to the specific content of each component in the water concentrate or the water preparation, but also to the proportional relationship of the mass between each component, and therefore, it is within the scope of the disclosure of the embodiment of the present invention to scale up or down the concentration of each component of the composition according to the embodiment of the present invention. Specifically, the mass described in the description of the embodiment of the present invention may be a unit of weight known in the food field such as μ g, mg, g, kg, etc.

An aqueous concentrate comprising the following concentrations of the components:

wherein the hardness of the water concentrate is 35000-90000ppm, and the pH value is 6-9.

The water concentrate provided by the embodiment of the invention has calcium ions with the concentration of 3000-15000ppm, magnesium ions with the concentration of 1500-20000ppm, sodium ions with the concentration of 700-1500ppm and potassium ions with the concentration of 400-1200ppm, the hardness is 35000-90000ppm, and the pH value is 6-9. In the practical application process, the water concentrated solution can be diluted by purified water to be used for brewing coffee or tea, the use is convenient, the storage and the transportation are facilitated, the coffee or tea brewing device is suitable for enterprises or users needing a large amount of drinks such as coffee houses, tea drinking shops or restaurants, the coffee or tea obtained by brewing the coffee or tea has good flavor and taste, and the market prospect is wide.

In some embodiments, the aqueous concentrate comprises the following concentrations of components:

in some embodiments, the aqueous concentrate comprises the following concentrations of components:

in addition to the above embodiments, the water concentrate may further contain bicarbonate and/or chloride ions.

In some embodiments, the water concentrate further comprises bicarbonate at a concentration of less than 17000ppm, preferably less than 500ppm bicarbonate. In particular embodiments, the bicarbonate content of the water concentrate is 255 or 385 ppm.

In some embodiments, the water concentrate further comprises chloride ions at a concentration of 20000-. In particular embodiments, the water concentrate has a chloride ion content of 21693 or 34625 ppm.

Unlike the conventional method in which the water concentrate is prepared using food-grade mineral materials, the water concentrate provided in the embodiment of the present invention is prepared by extracting and concentrating deep sea water from the eastern Taiwan sea area of 600-700 m depth. The eastern Taiwan sea area has unique geographic condition, has three hundred kilometers of coastline, has a depth of one thousand meters below ten kilometers of sea water, has a depth of seven or eight hundred meters below thirty kilometers of sea water, is beneficial to mining, and is beneficial to obtaining ideal deep seawater to further improve the flavor and taste of the beverage.

In some embodiments, the water concentrate is extracted and concentrated from deep sea water from Taiwan flower lotus seven star pond sea area with the depth of 600-700 m.

In some embodiments, the water concentrate is extracted and concentrated from deep sea water originating from 600-.

Based on the technical scheme, the embodiment of the invention also provides a water preparation and a method for preparing a beverage by using the water preparation.

The water preparation provided by the embodiment of the invention is used for preparing drinks, is prepared by diluting the water concentrate, and has the dilution multiple of 500-1500.

The water preparation provided by the embodiment of the invention is prepared by diluting the water concentrated solution according to the dilution multiple of 500-1500, and when the water preparation is used for preparing drinks, the extraction efficiency of active ingredients in drink raw materials such as coffee or tea can be improved, so that the flavor, taste and health-care effect of the drinks can be improved. Tests show that compared with coffee brewed by pure water, the coffee brewed by the water preparation of the embodiment of the invention is rich in active ingredients such as malic acid, lactic acid, acetic acid, total organic acid, eugenol, quinic acid and the like, and the content of functional substances such as citric acid and the like is increased by 229%; compared with the tea brewed by pure water, the content of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) in the tea brewed by the water preparation of the embodiment of the invention is improved by 85%.

The water concentrate used in the examples of the present application should have the same composition and effect as the water concentrate described above.

The dilution factor is a quotient obtained by dividing the concentration of the solution before dilution by the concentration of the solution after dilution. In some embodiments, the dilution factor is preferably 700-1000 or 800-900. In particular embodiments, the dilution factor is 820, 825, 830, 835, 840, 845, 855, 860, 865, 870, 875, 880, or 885.

In some embodiments, the aqueous formulation comprises the following concentrations of components:

in some embodiments, the aqueous formulation comprises the following concentrations of components:

the water preparation is used as brewing water for brewing coffee beans, so that the obtained coffee is rich in active ingredients such as malic acid, citric acid, lactic acid, acetic acid, total organic acid, chlorogenic acid, eugenol, caffeine and quinic acid, the malic acid, the citric acid, the lactic acid, the acetic acid, the total organic acid, the chlorogenic acid, the eugenol, the caffeine and the quinic acid are important factors for determining the coffee flavor, and the chlorogenic acid is more regarded as an important antioxidant substance in the coffee.

In some embodiments, the aqueous formulation comprises the following concentrations of components:

the water preparation is used as brewing water for brewing tea leaves, so that the obtained tea is rich in tea polyphenol, gallic acid, catechin, gallocatechin, epigallocatechin, epicatechin, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), catechin gallic acid, epicatechin gallic acid and the like, and the active ingredients have different health care functions on human bodies, such as EGCG has anti-cancer activity and has good effect of reducing the risks of related diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity and the like. In a test example, purified water and the water preparation are respectively adopted to brew tea leaves, compared with tea brewed by purified water, the content of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) in the tea brewed by the water preparation provided by the embodiment of the invention is increased by 85%, which shows that the water preparation provided by the embodiment of the invention is beneficial to leaching active ingredients in the tea leaves, the health-care function of the beverage is improved, and the flavor and the taste of the beverage are increased.

The method for preparing the beverage provided by the embodiment of the invention comprises the following steps:

s01, providing the water preparation and the beverage raw materials;

s02, brewing the water preparation into the beverage raw material to obtain the beverage.

The method for preparing the beverage provided by the embodiment of the invention is obtained by brewing the beverage raw materials by using the water preparation, is simple and easy to operate, and the obtained beverage is rich in active ingredients such as amino acids, flavonoids, polyphenols, terpenoids, alkaloids and organic acids, has good flavor and mouthfeel, and can improve the health-care function of the beverage to a certain extent.

Wherein the water formulation in step S01 is the same as the water formulation described above, having the same composition and action effect; the beverage material can be at least one of tea, tea bag, coffee powder, coffee bean and coffee capsule, so as to obtain coffee, tea and other beverage.

In step S02, the water preparation is infused with the beverage material to obtain the beverage.

Different beverage materials different beverages are obtained, in some embodiments the beverage is coffee and/or tea.

The method for brewing the water preparation into the drink raw material can be flexibly adjusted according to the characteristics of the drink raw material. In some embodiments, the beverage material is selected from tea leaves or coffee beans, and in the step of brewing the beverage material with the water preparation, the water preparation is heated to 80-90 ℃ and then added to the beverage material for brewing for 3-5 minutes.

The dosage of the water preparation and the beverage raw material can be flexibly adjusted according to the requirements of different people, for example, in some embodiments, the dosage proportion of the water preparation and the beverage raw material is 150mL (3-10) g.

In order that the details of the above-described practice and operation of the invention will be readily understood by those skilled in the art, and the improved performance of the water concentrate, water formulation, method of brewing a beverage, and beverage product of the embodiments of the present invention will be apparent, the practice of the invention will now be illustrated by way of example.