CA2666102A1

CA2666102A1 - Diet tea

Info

Publication number: CA2666102A1
Application number: CA 2666102
Authority: CA
Inventors: Kenneth I. Crause
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2009-04-24
Filing date: 2009-04-24
Publication date: 2010-10-24

Abstract

A tea product that is a unique combination of Rooibos Tea (Aspalathus linearis), Honey bush tea (Cyclopia Intermedia) and Hoodia gordonii. The effect of this combination of natural products is a product with high anti-oxidant values, along with a powerful, natural hunger suppressant in a combination that is effective and yet pleasant to drink as a tea. This combination may also be prepared using a variety of flavor enhancements using other natural spices, herbs or other flavor enhancing or sweetening substances. The percentage component of Hoodia gordonii shall comprise no less than sixteen percent (16%) of the total final product.

Description

DESCRIPTION:

FIELD OF INVENTION:

This invention relates to a diet tea product that is aimed at creating a healthy aid to weight control while at the same time providing a pleasant drink that is both healthy and enjoyable.
This invention is an alternative diet option to people who cannot or prefer not to consume pills as diet supplements. Due to the bitter taste of Hoodia, it is currently only produced in pill form for general consumption.

It is understood that that the term "diet tea product" as used in this specification is intended to mean a diet tea that has been processed to a stage at which it is ready for the consumer market, for the purpose of the preparation of beverages by a customer, by means of an extraction process in which the tea is contacted with hot or cold water. The term therefore excludes any usage that is not in the form of a beverage.
Rooibos Tea (Aspalathus linearis) and Honey bush tea (Cyclopia Intermedia) are gaining in popularity with consumers due to their unusually high anti-oxidant component as well as the fact that they are the only known tea that is naturally free of caffeine. Studies have also shown that Rooibos tea has an anti spasmodic nature and as such has been used for generations as a supplement to babies suffering with colic or stomach ailments. Currently there is a substantial change in consumer beverage choice causing more people to choose tea instead of coffee as their beverage of preference. In particular there has been a substantial growth in demand for green tea due primarily to its anti oxidant components. Rooibos tea however has substantially higher anti oxidant components than green tea but consumers have not been educated adequately concerning this tea yet.

Hoodia Gordonii has for many years been used by the Bushmen of South Africa as an aid to hunger suppressant while traveling for days through desert regions on hunting expeditions. The consumption of Hoodia has shown through experience that there are no known side effects through usage of this plant.
Since its discovery, it has been introduced around the world as a hunger suppressant. Hoodia Gordonii is found only in certain regions of South Africa and to date has not been successfully cultivated in any other part of the world.

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION:

It is the object of this invention to provide a diet supplement in the form of a healthy tea based beverage that contains no caffeine, high anti-oxidants and other health benefits not normally found in diet supplements.

In addition it is the object of this invention to provide an alternative to consumers wanting to avail themselves of the benefits of Hoodia Gordonii but who cannot or prefer not to take it in pill form. By delivering Hoodia in a tea that is also healthy and tasty, more consumers can benefit from the combination afforded them with this product.

Claims

1. A diet tea product comprising a blend of approximately 42% Rooibos Tea (Aspalathus linearis), approximately 42% Honey bush tea (Cyclopia Intermedia) and 16% Hoodia gordonii. The product is comprised of tea that has been prepared using the standard harvesting curing and cutting of Rooibos and Honey bush tea along with sterilizing standards for international shipping. The Hoodia Gordonii component uses standard drying and processing of the plant and fine cut so as to blend with the tea product component.

2. A tea product as claimed in claim 1 in which the diet tea product is packaged either in packages of loose tea (bulk packages) or into individual packets which may include, but not be limited to sachets, pods, capsules or tea bags thereby enabling one or more predetermined unit quantities thereof to be employed at one time.

3. A diet tea product as claimed in any one of the preceding claims in which at least 16% by weight of the cumulative product contains pure Hoodia gordonii.

4. A marketable package of diet tea suitable for distribution by way of a conventional distribution network characterized in that the diet tea product contained therein is as claimed in any one of the previous claims 1 to 3.

5. A diet tea product that may in addition to claims 1 to 4 above, contain an unlimited and unreserved combination of flavor enhancing substances, including but not limited to spices, herbs, or sweeteners.

6. A diet tea product that may be prepared using either cold or hot water or alternatively cooled or heated subsequent to production. It may be consumed either as a hot or cold beverage.