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Roast and ground coffee is extracted by a split extraction process to obtain an extract from an atmospheric stage and an extract from a pressure stage. The extract produced by the atmospheric stage is evaporatively concentrated to a dry matter content of above 35% by weight, and the evaporation vapors produced during evaporative concentration are condensed and concentrated. The extract produced by the pressure stage also is evaporatively concentrated to increase its dry matter concentration to a dry matter concentration below 25% by weight. The two concentrated extracts then are mixed, and that mixture is evaporatively concentrated to a dry matter concentration of more than 40% by weight. The condensed and concentrated vapors obtained from evaporative concentration of the atmospheric stage are introduced into the evaporatively concentrated mixture or into a powder obtained from the concentrated mixture.
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