METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF TEA BASED DRY MIXTURE (VERSIONS) AND COMPOSITION FOR METHOD IMPLEMENTATION Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A23F3/30 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: inventions group relates to food industry. During the mixture production at the stage of blending one introduces water or a liquid natural flavouring agent ensuring wetting the mixture components, partial solution of additive ingredients and their subsequent gluing to tea leaves. The additive ingredient is represented by one component from the following list or any combination of such components: dried milk, dried cream, white chocolate pieces, caramel pieces. Another version of the method envisages placement of tea raw material, flavour-and-aroma additives and a liquid natural flavouring agent into the blending machine. One introduces into the mixture dried milk and/or dried cream based on vegetable raw material and stirs the components. The tea mixture composition includes the following components, wt %: tea leaf - 40-90, dried cream and/or dried milk based on vegetable raw material - 10-60, flavour-and-aroma additives represented by white chocolate pieces and/or caramel pieces - 0-6, "Cream" liquid flavouring agent - 1-3.

EFFECT: inventions group allows to produce a product homogenous in terms of composition, without stratification into light and heavy components in the process of transportation and storage.

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