Ready-to-Mix Green Coffee Beverage Strips for Convenient Consumption
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for consuming green coffee lack convenience and flavor variety, making it difficult for individuals to incorporate its health benefits into their daily lives.
Innovation Solution
A ready-to-mix beverage composition with green coffee extract as the primary ingredient, available in three flavors (mocha coffee, roasted coffee, and cappuccino coffee) and formulated into disintegrating beverage strips that dissolve in hot water without residual matter.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If green coffee is consumed in traditional forms (capsules, instant, ground coffee), then health benefits are provided, but convenience and ease of operation are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The beverage is segmented into individual single-serve pouches, each containing a pre-measured portion of green coffee extract. This segmentation allows consumers to easily take one pouch at a time without needing to measure or prepare larger quantities, significantly improving convenience while maintaining the health benefits of green coffee consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The green coffee extract is pre-prepared and concentrated during manufacturing, with exact dosing already determined. This preliminary action eliminates the need for consumers to measure, mix, or prepare the beverage themselves - they simply need to add hot water to the pouch. This resolves the contradiction by providing health benefits through pre-dosed extract while maximizing ease of operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If green coffee extract is used to provide health benefits, then antioxidant properties are preserved, but flavor variety and adaptability are limited
Solution Approach 1:
Flavoring agents are used as intermediaries between the green coffee extract and the final beverage. These flavorings (such as cocoa for mocha, vanilla for cream, or fruit extracts) are added in controlled amounts that enhance flavor variety without interfering with the antioxidant properties of the green coffee extract. The flavorings mediate between the need for versatility and the need to preserve reliability of health benefits.
Solution Approach 2:
Different flavor variants are created by applying different flavoring qualities to different pouches or batches, while maintaining the same core green coffee extract formulation. This allows each variant to have unique local characteristics (flavor profile) while the core product maintains consistent antioxidant properties. For example, a mocha variant adds cocoa flavor locally without changing the green coffee extract composition.
3Reliability
If precise dosing is implemented to ensure health benefits, then reliability is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The total green coffee extract production is divided into many small, identical single-serve pouches. This segmentation allows for standardized dosing where each pouch contains a predetermined amount of extract. The manufacturing process is designed to fill each pouch with the same precise amount, and while individual pouches may have minor variations, the large number of pouches ensures that on average, each serving receives the correct dose, maintaining reliability without requiring extreme precision in every single unit.
Solution Approach 2:
The manufacturing process controls the concentration and volume parameters of the green coffee extract to achieve consistent dosing. By carefully controlling these parameters during production (extract concentration, pouch fill volume), the system achieves reliable dosing across all pouches. The parameters are optimized during development to balance manufacturing precision requirements with the need for accurate dosing delivery.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution provides a convenient, flavorful, and healthy way to consume green coffee, ensuring accurate dosing and preserving the antioxidant properties of chlorogenic acid, while eliminating the risk of residual bitterness.
Implementation Method 1
The wet slurry is subjected to vacuum degassing
Implementation Method 2
Coating of the said wet slurry at process parameters of Coating Thickness 900-1150μ
Implementation Method 3
Drying Temperature −9±3° C., Drying Time—23 minutes
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a composition of a ready to mix drink with green coffee extract as the main component. The current embodiment of our present invention includes three types of composition to provide flavour difference. Namely, mocha coffee, roasted coffee and cappuccino coffee flavour. The main components of the composition include the following ingredients in all the variants namely green coffee extract (50%), pullulan, propylene glycol, maltodextrin, polyethylene oxide, glycerol, polysorbate 80, sorbitol, nuesilin UFL2. Di basic calcium phosphate anhydrous, with only the flavoring agent as the changeable component to the composition.