LACTOSE-CONTAINING COFFEE BEVERAGE

摘要

Provided is a lactose-containing coffee beverage which has superior drinkability and in which changes in flavor due to high-temperature pasteurization and/or storage in a heated state have been suppressed. The beverage is a coffee beverage containing milk obtained by subjecting a liquid preparation obtained by combining lactose and glucose with a coffee component to high-temperature pasteurization, wherein (i) the lactose content (a) of the beverage is 0.2 to 0.9g/100g, (ii) the concentration ratio [(b)/(a)] of the lactose content (a) and the glucose content (b) of the beverage is 0.2 to 15, and (iii) milk solids make up less than 3.0wt% of the beverage.