“A PROCESS FOR PREPRATION OF PACHA TAINT FREE TEA USING ENZYMES”
Application 394/DELNP/2004 published 2006-03-10, filed 2004-02-20
The present invention provides an enzymatic process for the prevention of development of pacha taint in CTC tea which comprises: (I) mixing an enzyme in water to form an enzyme solution; (II) spraying the enzyme solution homogeneously on rolled and distorted tea leafy material used in the black tea manufacturing process; (III) fermenting the enzyme solution sprayed rolled and distorted tea leafy material obtained at the end of step (II) (iv) drying the fermented material obtained in step (III). The enzyme can be mixture of any of lipase, lipoxygenase anel alcoholdehydrogenase.
Applicant
COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
RAFI MARG NEW DELHI 110001
Inventor
1. SREEKANTAYYA NAGALAKSHMI 2. LINGAMALLU JAGAN MOHAN RAO 3. NANJUNDSWAMY CHANDRASEKHER 4. RAMASWAMY SHANMUGASUNDARAM SENTHIL KUM
International Info
Classification: A23F 3/00
Publication Number: WO 2005/063035
Application Date: 2003-12-31