Process for preparation of flavoured beverage

摘要

A process for preparing a flavoured beverage product including a flavour enhancing agent containing natural saffron and which is capable of strengthening the flavour of the beverage, comprising the steps of: preparing a flavour enhancing agent by cleaning natural saffron, converting the saffron into a saffron-containing syrup by distillation in the presence of water and about nine to about fifty four per cent by volume of alcohol at about eighty degrees Celsius in a distilling apparatus, condensing the aqueous alcohol saffron extract; cooling the alcohol saffron extract and adding demineralized water to provide a flavoured beverage product containing from 90 milligrams to two hundred and seventy milligrams of the saffron extract per litre of the product.