INSTANT COFFEE PRODUCTION WITH ENZYMES USAGE Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC A23F5/24 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: one offers a method of instant coffee extract production; the method includes the following stages: combining roasted and ground coffee with water and heating the produced mixture for coffee extract production; milled material separation from coffee extract; wet milling of the separated milled material till average particle size is from nearly 10 to nearly 250 mcm; adding hydrolytic enzymes for production of a mixture of the wet milling milled material with the enzymes. Then one performs the procedure of the produced mixture maintenance at a temperature whereat the said enzymes are active; the reaction mixture circulation through a membranous filtration manifold with the membranous pore size being 0.8 mcm to produce the extract for instant coffee preparation in the form of a permeat.

EFFECT: invention allows to improve the finished product aroma and to more completely perform the extraction procedure with total absence of enzymes in the finished product.

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