Beverages having stable flavor/cloud emulsions in the presence of polyphosphate-containing preservative systems by including gellan gum

摘要

A beverage such as a dilute juice or tea beverage having a stable flavor/cloud emulsion which contains from about 0.005 to about 0.04% gellan gum, from about 100 ppm to about 1000 ppm of a preservative selected from sorbic acid, benzoic acid, alkali metal salts thereof and mixtures thereof, from about 300 ppm to about 3000 ppm of a food grade water soluble polyphosphate, and from about 60 to about 99% by weight of added water having from 0 ppm to about 180 ppm of hardness.