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Filter with sweetener

a filter and sweetener technology, applied in the field of sweeteners, can solve the problems of inability to effectively provide beverages, small volume of coffee or tea consumption, and acuteness, and achieve the effect of avoiding beverages, reducing the number of calories, and reducing the cost of consumption

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-05-26
MCNEIL PPC INC
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[0003] To achieve this and other objects, and in view of its purposes, the present invention provides, in one embodiment, a device for delivering a predetermined amount of a high inten

Problems solved by technology

This requirement sometimes results in the situation where one of the components is out of stock, making the beverage effectively unavailable.
The problem may be especially acute in locations such as homes or offices, where small volumes of coffee or tea are consumed and maintenance of inventories of supplies is sometimes problematic.

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[0021] As used herein, the terms “impregnate” and “impregnated” shall mean to coat and coated or to deposit and deposited on or within.

[0022] According to the invention, there is provided a device having a pervious filter incorporating a high intensity sweetener. A beverage or other liquid is sweetened by passing it through the pervious filter.

[0023] Any sweetener known to one skilled in the art can be used as a sweetener in the present invention. Such sweeteners include, but are not limited to, sucrose, dextrose, fructose, fructans, sugar alcohols, sucralose, saccharin, acesulfame-K, stevia, neotame, alitame, aspartame, other protein sweeteners, and combinations thereof

[0024] For simplicity, the following discussion of the devices of the invention, and methods for using them, will recite the choice of sucralose as the sweetener. It is to be understood, however, that the use of any nutritive or nonnutritive sweetener, i.e., high intensity sweetener, incorporated in a pervious fil...

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Abstract

Pervious filters incorporating sweeteners for providing sweetness to liquids passing though the filter and devices incorporating such pervious filters. The filters may be impregnated with sweeteners such as sucrose, sucralose, saccharin, acesulfame-K, stevia, neotame, alitame, aspartame and combinations thereof. The filters may be designed for single use or for multiple uses, and may be used for sweetening any of a variety of beverages, such as, coffee and tea.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The invention relates generally to sweeteners. More specifically, the invention relates to filters incorporating sweeteners for delivering predetermined amounts of the sweeteners to servings of an edible material, such as, a beverage. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Nutritive and nonnutritive sweeteners have long been used to sweeten comestibles, including beverages. High intensity sweeteners have found significant use in consumer-oriented products as essentially zero-calorie replacements for sugar. These sweeteners are useful as aids to diet regulation for such purposes as weight control and for blood sugar control for diabetics. In particular, high intensity sweeteners are commonly used in coffee and tea. Preparation of such beverages traditionally requires that the user have not only a supply of pervious filters and coffee or tea, but also units of sweetener in the form of packets, tablets, or other forms. This requirement sometimes results in the...

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IPC IPC(8): A23L2/60A23L27/00A23L27/30A47J31/08
CPCA23L1/236A47J31/08A23L2/60A23L1/2367A23L27/30A23L27/37
Inventor CATANI, STEVENANNE-LISE, LUCASPANARISI, JOSEPH
Owner MCNEIL PPC INC