11.01.03
Applied Food Sciences (AFS), Austin, TX, has received a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trade Office for patent claims relating to HealthyRoast™, the company’s proprietary coffee roasting process that increases the antioxidant content in brewed coffee when compared with traditional coffee roasting methods. HealthyRoast technology involves an easy-to-implement, 100% natural process for preserving the antioxidants in roasted coffee by pre-soaking the green coffee beans before roasting and then quenching the roasted beans with the liquid in which the coffee beans were first pre-soaked.