13985results about "Alcoholic beverage preparation" patented technology

A process arrangement for distilling fuel grade ethanol includes a fermentation portion, a distillation portion, a condensation and dehydration portion, a separation and drying portion and an evaporation portion. The fermentation portion produces beer. The distillation portion, the condensation and dehydration portion and the separation and drying portion receives beer from the fermentation portion and produces hot ethanol vapor and thin stillage. In the evaporation portion, a set of first effect evaporators which are heated either by plant steam or hot ethanol vapor, concentrate thin stillage into mid stillage while producing first effect steam. The first effect steam from the first effect evaporators provides heat to a set of second effect evaporators which concentrate the mid stillage into a syrup for further drying. The second effect evaporators produce second effect steam which is used to heat the distillation portion of the process arrangement. The multiple evaporators of the first and second effects of the evaporation portion can be selectively taken off-line for maintenance while the evaporation portion and the remainder of the process arrangement continue to operate at full capacity.

A beverage system is created having beverage, with at least one liquid. The beverage is created in a variety, including tea drink, coffee drink, milk drink, yogurt drink, malted drink, roasted cereal grain beverage, roasted nut and seed beverage, roasted bean beverage, distilled water, mineral water, sports drink, fruit juice, vegetable juice, fruit drink, vegetable drink, fruit skin drink, vegetable skin drink, plant drink, soft drink, alcoholic drink, and soup drink. The beverage is also created with or without addition of ingredient, including flavoring ingredient, nutritional ingredient, health ingredient, and other ingredient. The beverage can be served as hot drink, cold drink, cold drink with ice, and warm drink. The beverage can be caffeinated, or non caffeinated; and diet or non diet. The liquid includes water, oil, and alcohol. The beverage system is created in various form, including bubble beverage, instant beverage, and beverage with dissolved gas.

A soy protein product, which may be an isolate, produces transparent heat-stable solutions at low pH values and is useful for the fortification of soft drinks and sports drinks without precipitation of protein. The soy protein product is obtained by extracting a soy protein source material with an aqueous calcium salt solution to form an aqueous soy protein solution, separating the aqueous soy protein solution from residual soy protein source, adjusting the pH of the aqueous soy protein solution to a pH of about 1.5 to about 4.4 to produce an acidified clear soy protein solution, which may be dried, following optional concentration and diafiltration, to provide the soy protein product.

Nobel Stevia Sweetening components are provided. Through the analysis of the components of the nobel Steviol Glycoside included in the stevia extract and/or crystals, not only the quality control of sweeteners, but judgment on the correctness of indication of origin or infringement of right are facilitated since the raw material of the sweetener can be identified.

The present invention provides methods and compositions for the treatment of ion imbalances. In particular, the invention provides compositions comprising potassium binding polymers and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Methods of use of the polymeric and pharmaceutical compositions for therapeutic and/or prophylactic benefits are disclosed herein. Examples of these methods include the treatment of hyperkalemia, such as hyperkalemia caused by renal failure and/or the use of hyperkalemia causing drugs.

A method of preparing an orally ingestible hard boiled product, comprising: i) heating a sugar material to a first temperature sufficient to liquefy the sugar material; ii) cooling the liquefied sugar material to provide a cooled sugar material having a solid or semi-solid form; iii) heating the cooled sugar material to a second temperature, which is lower than the first temperature; iv) combining the sugar material with one or more temperature sensitive ingredients before, during, or after said heating step iii), but after said cooling step ii), such that an intimate mixture of the second liquefied sugar material and the one or more temperature sensitive ingredients is provided; and v) cooling the intimate mixture to form an orally ingestible product. Orally ingestible hard boiled products prepared according to this method are also provided.

An improved protein beverage/drink composition which may provide a relatively high protein content, ranging from about 0.01% by weight to about 15% by weight, while optionally employing a carbonation concentration between about 0.1 volumes of carbonation (per volume of liquid drink solution or liquid drink suspension) to about 6 volumes of carbonation. Preferably the protein is a protein, such preferably as whey protein, or others. The protein beverage may contain juice and/or an additive which provides energy generation enhancement. The protein beverage may be heat treated to inactivate pathogenic microbes in the presence of the carbonation which may be used to provide taste and mouth feel for the drink. Typically, the treatment for pathogenic microbe inactivation is carried out in the individual package used for storage and handling of the protein drink.

Algal flour and algal biomass are disclosed. Food compositions comprising algal biomass or algal flour with a high lipid content are disclosed.

A method for distilling ethanol from a mash includes feeding a fluid to a first distillation column. The fluid and a distillate of the first distillation column are delivered to a second distillation column. The fed fluid and/or distillate of the second distillation column is/are purified in a first and/or last step of the method by a membrane separation process.

Processes for preparing extracts of natural products such as plant material, and for preparing purified extracts from crude extracts of natural products, by extraction with hot gas. Apparatus suitable for use in preparing extracts of natural products are also described.

Present embodiments generally relate to a single-serve beverage cartridge for use with a single-serve coffee brewer. In some embodiments, the cartridge includes a cup, a lid, and a single serving of instant coffee or another instant beverage component. In some embodiments, the cartridge is configured to be pierced by one or more piercing members, which can provide an opening for liquid to flow into and/or out of the cartridge. In certain instances, the cartridge includes an insert configured to facilitate mixing of the instant beverage component with the liquid. In some embodiments, the instant beverage component is compressed. In certain embodiments, the cartridge does not include a filter or a barrier configured to retain non-liquid matter within the cartridge.

A method for extracting a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon from a material such as tobacco or tobacco extracts or other materials comprises treating the material with a molecularly imprinted polymer selective for the hydrocarbon in the presence of a low polarity medium.

Oil of improved quality is produced by treating the oil with an active substance capable of reducing the anisidine value of the oil. Food products comprising the oil of improved quality are also disclosed.

The invention discloses a flower fruit/vegetable honey wine and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method has the technique scheme that: taking advantages of nutritive characteristics and the like of a plurality of raw materials and auxiliary materials such as edible flowers, fruits (vegetables), black glutinous rice white glutinous rice and the like; using a pure saccharifying fermenting agent and an active dry yeast to carry out the compound fermentation with a plurality of raw materials and auxiliary materials; and using edible flower leaching liquor and cool fruit (vegetable) juice instead of brewing water so as to reduce the alcoholic strength of the yellow wine, increase the content of the dry extractive, increase the nutrients and the content of the yellow wine, enhance the health-care functions for beautifying and maintaining the face and improve the mouth feel. The honey wine tastes elegant, pure, sweet and thick, has peculiar flavor and has the characteristics of both yellow wines and fruit wines. The honey wine is a clear yellow wine having the advantages of elegant taste and health care, is suitable to drink in all seasons, and is especially suitable for women to drink.

Structures can be formed from a composition, which can be referred to as a biopolymer, that includes fermentation solids and thermoactive material. Methods of making biopolymer products include for example extruding, injection molding, or compounding fermentation solid and thermoactive material. Structures formed from biopolymer can include lumber replacements, window components, door components, siding assemblies, and other structures.

The invention relates to a wine and in particular relates to a fruit-plant fragrance-edible flower combined wine. The fruit-plant fragrance-edible flower combined wine adopting dry or fresh fruits, plant fragrances and edible flowers as main raw materials is prepared by soaking the three dry raw materials into white spirit or red wine by 1-2 days; or the fruit-plant fragrance-edible flower combined wine is prepared by making the fresh fruits, the dry plant fragrances and dry edible flowers into extract solutions, adding auxiliary materials to the extract solution and mixing with the white spirit or the white wine in proportion; or the fruit-plant fragrance-edible flower combined wine is prepared by adding the three dry or fresh raw materials to the red wine, soaking more than 7 days, as well as filtering, sterilizing and bottling the mixture. According to the fruit-plant fragrance-edible flower combined wine disclosed by the invention, a plurality of natural nutrition components are contained in the formula based on an aromatic food therapy healthcare theory, and therefore, the fruit-plant fragrance-edible flower combined wine is aromatic, sweet after taste, unique in fragrance and healthcare; different fruit-plant fragrance-edible flower combined wines with different alcoholic strengths, different odor types and different aromas can be obtained by selecting different raw material proportions and different mixing methods; and besides, the preparation method is simple.

The present invention refers to a chewable and/or edible product for pets and other animals, especially for companion animals, mainly composed of a fibrous collagenous matrix, formed into any shape or design. This product is natural and harmless, and its water content is such that it can be supplied to the animal as a dry, semi-wet or wet product with the desired texture, according to the specific habits and preferences of a wide range of animals. This product, as well as stimulating the chewing activity in the animal, also functions as a vehicle to administer water or nutritive, preventive or therapeutic substances to the animal. The invention also refers to the use of fibrous collagen to prepare this product, and a fibrous collagen matrix formed in any shape or three-dimensional design. Finally, the invention refers to a method to manufacture this product.

The invention discloses rice wine yeast and a preparation method thereof. The yeast comprises the following materials in part by weight: 60 to 100 parts of sticky rice, 1 to 10 parts of licorice root, 1 to 10 parts of dried orange peel, 1 to 10 parts of cyperus rotundus, 1 to 10 parts of polygonum flaccidum meism, 1 to 10 parts of mulberry leaves, 1 to 10 parts of stringy stonecrop and 0 to 15 parts of water. Compared with the prior art, five Chinese medicaments such the licorice root, the dried orange peel, the cyperus rotundus, the polygonum flaccidum meism and the mulberry leaves are selected and added into the yeast of the invention, which not only prompts the growth and the metabolism of the yeast, but also inhibits the growth of pernicious bacteria; simultaneously the flavor of the yeast is improved by adding sweet-scented osmanthus; and simultaneously rice wine produced by using the yeast has a unique flavor of the sweet-scented osmanthus. The stringy stonecrop serving as a Chinese medicament is added into the yeast, which not only makes the yeast contain active ingredients, for protecting liver, in the stringy stonecrop, but also makes the rice wine produced by using the yeast have the efficacy of protecting the liver.

The wine bottle sealing and dispensing device provides for the dispensing of wine from a wine bottle, or any other liquid from a corresponding liquid container, without exposing the wine or liquid in the bottle to environmental air at any time. The device includes a housing adapted for mounting above a cork of a corked wine bottle. An upper open end of a hollow needle is mounted in the housing, the needle projecting downward from the housing and terminating in a tip adapted for insertion through the cork. A first end of a spout projects outwardly from the housing, and a second end of the spout is in fluid communication with the upper open end of the hollow needle. A cartridge of pressurized, inert gas is mounted to the housing. The cartridge is in communication with an upper end of a gas conduit, which is mounted within the hollow needle.

A speech recognition method and apparatus perform speaker clustering and speaker adaptation using average model variation information over speakers while analyzing the quantity variation amount and the directional variation amount. In the speaker clustering method, a speaker group model variation is generated based on the model variation between a speaker-independent model and a training speaker ML model. In the speaker adaptation method, the model in which the model variation between a test speaker ML model and a speaker group ML model to which the test speaker belongs which is most similar to a training speaker group model variation is found, and speaker adaptation is performed on the found model. Herein, the model variation in the speaker clustering and the speaker adaptation are calculated while analyzing both the quantity variation amount and the directional variation amount. The present invention may be applied to any speaker adaptation algorithm of MLLR and MAP.

The invention relates to a Chinese medical compound for curing cardiovascular disease, and is prepared by the following raw medicines: green tangerine peel, bupleurum, nutgrass galingale rhizome, turmeric root-tuber, pittosporm root, gentiana scabra bge, black nightshade herb, gambir plant, tuber fleeceflower root broil, radix astragali, cassia twig, ageratum, plantain seed, south dodder seed, red paeony root, szechuan lovage rhizome, kudzuvine root, malaytea scurfpea fruit, danshen root, hawthorn, safflower, pericarpium trichosanthis, blackberrykiky rhizome, tree peony bark, india madder root, dangshen, sojutsu var broil, indian buead, chicken's gizzard-membrane, combined spicebush root, cinnamon, baical skullcap root, ephedra herb, chinese magnoliavine fruit, fragrant solomonseal rhizome, radix stemonae broil, pinellia tuber broil, white mustard seed, nodakenin, sandalwood, rosewood heart wood, longstamen onion bulb, angelica, clematis root, kadsura pepper stem, ovientvine, herb pyrolae, desertliving cistanche, hairy antler, medicinal indianmulberry root, barbary wolfberry fruit, glossy privet fruit, dogwood, rhizoma anemarrhenae, amur corktree bark, spina date seed, platycladi seed, pubescent holly root, thinleaf milkwort root-bark broil, grassleaf sweelflag rhizome, silktree albizzia bark, twotooth achyranthes root, paris polyphylla, chinese date, oriental waterplantain rhizome, songaria cynomorium herb, papermulberry fruit, leech, cortex lycii radicis, earthworm, lucid ganoderma, glabrous greenbrier rhizome, magnetic stone dust, and longhairy antenoron herb with smallleaves. The invention has good curing effects on the applicable diseases.

The present invention relates to beverage compositions that have the added benefit of providing a water-soluble source of Vitamin E. For example, d,l- or d-α-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate (such as Vitamin E TPGS™) may be used to provide tocopheryl (i.e., vitamin E) content to beverages while concurrently maintaining beverage clarity when desired. Various additives may also be used in the beverage compositions of the present invention, such as flavoring agents, colorants, preservatives, sweeteners as well as other vitamins, minerals and/or electrolytes.

The invention discloses traditional Chinese medicine liquor for treating arthritis. The traditional Chinese medicine liquor is mainly prepared from raw dog bones, radix rehmanniae, angelica, rhizoma ligustici wallichii, sheep fat prepared herba epimedii, wine prepared radices paeoniae alba, cornua cervi pantotrichum, white wine, sugar candy, white sugar and other raw materials by a medicine liquor preparation method. With the compatibility of the raw material medicines, the traditional Chinese medicine liquor has the efficacies of expelling wind, eliminating dampness, dredging meridian passage, strengthening tendons and bones, replenishing qi, invigorating spleen, warming kidney, removing paralysis and relieving pain, and is suitable for rheumatoid arthritis and arthritis of other properties.

The invention discloses a maca, ginseng and medlar composition and an application thereof. The composition is prepared by mixing the following components in percentage by weight: 30-85% of maca, 10-40% of ginseng and 5-30% of medlar. The composition is added with edible accessory and prepared into tablets, hard capsules, granules, soft capsule, medicinal liquor, oral liquid and beverage. According to the composition disclosed by the invention, the maca, ginseng and medlar are matched and combined according to the functional characteristics thereof; the ginseng has the effects of nourishing and strengthening and tonifying middle and replenishing qi, the maca has the effects of improving sexual function, reducing benign prostatic hyperplasia and improving the fertility, and the medlar has the effects of preventing consumptive disease, essence deficiency, impotence, spermatorrhea and the like; and the three complement one another and realize a synergistic effect in improving the sexual function, reducing benign prostatic hyperplasia and improving the fertility.

The invention relates to a fibrous surface structure containing active ingredients with an adjustable active ingredient release profile, comprising a fibrous, polymeric, soluble and/or degradable active ingredient substrate and at least one active ingredient that is associated with the substrate and can be released by the fibrous surface structure; to formulations containing active ingredients, comprising such fibrous surface structures; to the use of fibrous surface structures containing active ingredients according to the invention for producing formulations containing active ingredients; and to a method for producing fibrous surface structures according to the invention.

Disclosed is a method of producing a polyphenol-containing composition derived from grapes, the method including: preparing a liquid grape extract which includes polyphenols; contacting the liquid extract with a separation medium which fractionates the components of the extract; and recovering that fraction in which the polyphenols are present. Also disclosed is a method of enriching the composition with added flavonol.

Compositions of supplemented fruit and/or vegetable products as well as methods for making the same are provided. Certain embodiments include supplements of macronutrients and/or micronutrients. Also provided are processes of manufacture and business methods relating to the compositions disclosed.

The invention discloses an artificial pit mud preparation method capable of improving the stale flavor of highly-concentrated fragrance white spirit, which comprises the following steps: mixing qualified bran, water, yellow water and sodium acetate in a proper proportion, and filling the mixture in a fermentation tank for sterilization; and when the temperature of the materials in the fermentation tank drops to 36 DEG C, adding a proper amount of aged pit mud and a Daqu drug into the fermentation tank, uniformly mixing the material and the aged pit mud and the Daqu drug, adjusting the pH value, covering the surface of material liquid with grease for isolating the material liquid from oxygen, standing the materials in the fermentation tank at 32 to 35 DEG C for anaerobic culture for 72 hours, taking out a bacterium solution, adding yellow mud, peat, vinasse squeezed fluid, the Daqu drug, pit surface mud and bean dreg powder in a proper proportion into the bacterium solution, culturing the mixture at room temperature for 7 to 10 days after uniform mixing, grinding bacterium mud, adding a certain amount of double bottom grains, the Daqu drug and ending beer, stacking the materials after uniform mixing for natural fermentation at normal temperature for 30 to 40 days, and obtaining the artificial pit mud. The 'aging degree' of the artificial pit mud is the same as that of aged pit mud naturally aging for more than 10 years, and the stale flavor of the freshly brewed liquor is the same as that of white spirit stored for more than three years in a ceramic jar.

The invention relates to a manufacturing method of a die for molding an optical element. The manufacturing method comprising: forming the first film layer of an amorphous allow having a super-cooling liquid phase onto a master transfer surface of a master die for molding a molding transfer surface of the die; heating the first film layer more than a glass transition point of the amorphous alloy having the super-cooling liquid phase while a surface of the first film layer and a transferred surface of a base material of the die being faced and pressed; and peeling the first film layer from the master die and transferring the first film layer onto the base material of the die to form the molding transfer surface of the die.

The present invention discloses a composition and method of providing ionic forms or compounds of any combination of three metals to produce a product that can be used as a antimicrobial as defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) such as a hard surface disinfectant and as a foliar spray or water treatment for the control of various diseases in garden row, field and tree crops, on hard surface areas such as equipment from infected fields or in hospitals, homes, etc. as well as against a wide range of human, plant and animal diseases. Additionally, the composition of the present invention is able to be used to coat and otherwise treat and disinfect food products such as but not limited to fish and shellfish, meat, milk, poultry, eggs and irrigated crops (both food and nonfood crops) as well as non food products as defined in the EPA exemption from tolerance for copper and copper products. The composition may include inerts such as surfactants, detergents and buffers to adjust the pH. The composition remains soluble in water and is useful efficacious against the spread of bacteria, viruses and fungi and other pathogens within a source of water such as a reservoir or pool. Alternatively, the composition may be in aerosolized, misted, vaporized, fogged, humidified forms to produce micronized particles which are able to remain in suspension in the air for long periods of time in order to act on air-borne fungal spores and/or pathogens.