PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a packed tea beverage excellent in flavor and high in palatability, in a straight packed tea beverage with a low sweetness of 2 or lower, while maintaining the flavor characteristic of the straight tea beverage, by reducing the astringent taste characteristic of the tea beverage and suppressing the generation of astringent taste caused by deterioration in the tea beverage upon the production, storage and circulation of the packed tea beverage.SOLUTION: Provided is a packed tea beverage low in the sweetness of 2 or lower, in which indigestible dextrin is incorporated in the ratio of 0.5 to 2 wt.% to the beverage to suppress the reduction of astringent and the generation of the astringent caused by deterioration. In this invention by adding and incorporating the above specified amount of indigestible dextrin into the packed tea beverage, without giving a change to the flavor characteristic of the tea beverage, while maintaining the characteristic flavor of the tea beverage, the generation of astringent caused by deterioration of the tea beverage upon the production, storage and circulation of the packed tea beverage is suppressed, the tea beverage excellent in flavor is provided.SELECTED DRAWING: None【課題】甘味度２以下の甘味度の低いストレート容器詰紅茶飲料において、ストレート紅茶飲料の特有の香味を保持しつつ、紅茶飲料特有の苦渋味を低減して、容器詰紅茶飲料の製造、保存、流通時の紅茶飲料の劣化による苦渋味の発生を抑制して、香味の優れた嗜好性の高い容器詰紅茶飲料を提供すること。【解決手段】甘味度２以下の甘味度の低い容器詰紅茶飲料において、難消化性デキストリンを該飲料に対して０．５～２重量％の割合で含有させることにより、苦渋味の低減と劣化による苦渋味の発生が抑制された容器詰紅茶飲料を提供する。本発明において、容器詰紅茶飲料に上記特定量の難消化性デキストリンを添加、含有させることにより、紅茶飲料の特有の香味に変更を与えることなく、紅茶飲料の特有の香味を保持しつつ、容器詰紅茶飲料の製造、保存、流通時の紅茶飲料の劣化による苦渋味の発生を抑制して、香味の優れた紅茶飲料を提供する。【選択図】なし
