Healthy coffee and methods of its production

US8524307B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• TCHIBO GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Gerhard Bytof · Hamburg, DE
• Ingo Lantz · Hamburg, DE
• Herbert Stiebitz · Hamburg, DE
• Doris Marko · Kaiserslautern, DE
• Ute Böttler · Wien, AT
• Veronika Somoza · Weidling, AT
• Christine Kotyczka · Olching, DE
• Malte Rubach · Birkenfeld, DE
• Gerhard Eisenbrand · Sandhausen, DE
• Tamara Bakuradze · Kaiserslautern, DE
• Thomas Hofmann · Doylestown, US
• Roman Lang · Freising, DE
• Anika Wahl · Lorch, DE
• Rudolf Eggers · Buxtehude, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 27, 2011
• Grant date: Sep 3, 2013
• Expiry date: Apr 27, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A23F5/04
• WIPO field: Food chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for producing a coffee blend and the coffee blend obtained by this method, wherein the coffee blend is characterized in that a coffee drink brewed from said coffee blend contains high amounts of chlorogenic acids (CGA) and N-methylpyridinium cations (NMP) and optionally, low amounts of carboxylic acid-5-hydroxytryptamides (C5-HT), has a superior antioxidative activity.