TEA BEVERAGE PACKED IN CONTAINER

摘要

Disclosed is a tea beverage packed in a container, which has good flavor and good compositional stability under storage. The beverage is produced by blending a tea extract with another tea extract having a content of a gallate-type catechin in a non-polymeric catechin component of less than 50% by mass. The beverage comprises: (A) 0.072 to 0.4% by mass of a non-polymeric catechin component; and (B) 21 to 150 ppm of gallic acid, wherein the contents of a gallate-type catechin and an epi-type catechin in a non-polymeric catechin component are 0 to 50% by mass and 30 to 60% by mass, respectively.