NEW GREEN TEA DRINK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing green tea drink primarily suppressing growth of offensive heating smell caused by heating sterilization treatment and increasing excellent flavor inherent in tea to improve flavor balance, and preventing even quality deterioration of the tea drink brought with a lapse of time when producing the tea drink. SOLUTION: The green tea drink is obtained by a process of obtaining green tea extract through extracting green tea components from a green tea material and a process of subjecting the green tea extract obtained by the process to heating sterilization treatment to bring the product to the green tea drink. The production processes of the green tea drink comprise also an enzymatic treatment process for transforming glycoside contained in unheated green tea extraction into a flavor component compound by addition of a glycoside splitting enzyme before the heating sterilization treatment process for the green tea extract. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO