Tequila Flavor Infusion Using Agave Heart Extracts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Standard tequila beverages lack enhanced flavor and aroma components, making them less desirable to consumers, and existing production methods do not effectively incorporate additional compounds to improve their taste and quality.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating compounds extracted from agave hearts, particularly blue agave hearts, into tequila through infusion methods, such as using steamed and chopped agave hearts in tea-bag-like containers to infuse flavor and aroma into the beverage, along with filtration to optimize the concentration and quality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If standard tequila production methods are used, then the beverage maintains traditional authenticity, but the flavor and aroma components are insufficient to meet consumer preferences
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-cooking and extracting compounds from agave hearts before adding them to the tequila. The extraction process prepares the flavor and aroma components in advance, which are then incorporated into the final beverage, thereby enhancing flavor without complicating the main production流程
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the concentration parameter of flavor and aroma components by adding extracted compounds from agave hearts to the standard tequila. This increases the quantity of desirable flavor compounds while maintaining the base tequila formulation, resolving the contradiction between sufficient flavor and production simplicity
2Quantity of substance
If additional flavor compounds are added to enhance taste, then consumer desirability improves, but the beverage deviates from traditional composition
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses homogeneity by extracting compounds from the same blue agave plant material that is already present in the tequila production. This ensures that the added flavor compounds are chemically similar to the existing composition, maintaining overall compositional consistency while enhancing flavor profile
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a composite beverage by combining standard tequila with extracted agave heart compounds. The final product integrates multiple components (base tequila + extracted flavor compounds) into a unified enhanced tequila that maintains traditional character while improving flavor attributes
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
Results in an enhanced tequila beverage with improved flavor and aroma attributes, as subjectively determined by human tasters, meeting consumer preferences and regulatory standards, while maintaining the authenticity of traditional tequila production.
Implementation Method 1
The hearts are then cooked to hydrolyze the inulin to fermentable sugars
Implementation Method 2
The sugars from the cooked hearts are then converted by fermentation by yeast to produce alcohol (ethanol)
Implementation Method 3
The alcohol is distilled to provide tequila
Implementation Method 4
One way in which to produce such enhanced tequila is by incorporation compounds extracted from agave hearts, especially blue agave hearts, into tequila, for example by infusion of extracts from cooked agave hearts into tequila
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AI summary
A tequila beverage comprising a standard tequila beverage containing added components for making said standard tequila beverage more desirable to a consumer.