Coffee package

The present invention relates to a coffee package, and more particularly, to a coffee package that includes a flavored coffee product or a flavored coffee beverage.

With an increase in demand of flavored food products or beverages, flavored coffee products and flavored coffee beverages have gained a significant popularity, thereby contributing to an increase in a daily consumption of coffee. In general, such flavored coffee products include ground forms or whole bean forms of coffee mixed with a flavoring agent. Such flavored coffee products may be used to prepare flavored coffee beverages at home, parties, restaurants, and the like. Alternately, ready-to-drink flavored coffee beverages have also gained an utmost popularity due to ease in consumption. By availing oneself to these ready-to-drink coffee beverages having a desired flavor, a coffee consumer is able to save a lot of time that may be required to prepare and subsequently flavor the coffee beverages. Examples of the flavored coffee beverages that may be available in a ready-to-drink form include, but are not limited to, mocha-flavored coffee, French vanilla-flavored coffee, and hazelnut-flavored coffee. The foregoing flavors may also be available for different flavored coffee products.

For enhancing flavor of any coffee product or coffee beverage, many synthetic and naturally isolated compounds are employed therein. However, flavor enhancement involves an extremely complex process as hundreds of compounds may be used to provide a specific flavor to a coffee product or a coffee beverage. Further, identification of different compounds or components thereof that are characteristic of producing a desirable flavor requires synthesis and screening of many compounds. Thousands of such compounds have been screened over the years in an attempt to isolate desirable flavoring components thereof that may be used for preparing flavored coffee products or flavored coffee beverages.

However, it has always been challenging to obtain coffee products or coffee beverages with pure and exotic flavors of naturally occurring fruits. In addition, packaging of the conventional flavored coffee products and flavored coffee beverages does not provide an easy means to smell flavors corresponding to the flavored coffee products or the flavored coffee beverages stored therein. This prevents a coffee consumer from selecting and buying a desired flavor of a flavored coffee product or a flavored coffee beverage in a judicious and a reliable manner.

Accordingly, there is a need for a coffee product or a coffee beverage that is enriched with natural and exotic flavors. Further, the coffee product or the coffee beverage should be enclosed in a package that provides an easy means for smelling a distinct flavor corresponding to the coffee product or the coffee beverage.

In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the prior art, the general purpose of the present invention is to provide a coffee package that includes a flavored coffee product or a flavored coffee beverage, which includes all the advantages of the prior art, and overcomes the drawbacks inherent therein.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a coffee package that includes a flavored coffee product having an exotic flavor of a tropical fruit.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a coffee package that includes a flavored coffee beverage having an exotic flavor of a tropical fruit.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a flavored coffee package that includes a flavored coffee product or a flavored coffee beverage, and a container for enclosing the flavored coffee product or the flavored coffee beverage such that the container includes an aroma patch to provide an easy means to smell a distinct flavor corresponding to the flavored coffee product or the flavored coffee beverage.

In light of the above objects, in one aspect, the present invention discloses a coffee package that includes a flavored coffee product and a container enclosing the flavored coffee product. The flavored coffee product includes a solid coffee material, and a flavoring agent for providing a flavor of at least one tropical fruit to the solid coffee material. Further, the coffee package includes an aroma patch that is disposed on the container. The aroma patch is capable of releasing an aroma of the flavored coffee product enclosed within the container.

In another aspect, the present invention discloses a coffee package that includes a flavored coffee beverage and a container enclosing the flavored coffee beverage. The flavored coffee beverage includes a coffee material dissolved in a fluid and a flavoring agent for providing a flavor of at least one tropical fruit to the coffee material. The coffee package further includes an aroma patch disposed on the container. The aroma patch is capable of releasing an aroma of the flavored coffee beverage enclosed within the container.

These together with the other aspects of the present invention, along with the various features of novelty that characterized the present invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed hereto and form a part of the present invention. For a better understanding of the present invention, its operating advantages, and the specified object attained by its uses, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there are illustrated exemplary embodiments of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The advantages and features of the present invention will become better understood with reference to the following detailed description and claims taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein like elements are identified with like symbols, and in which:

FIG. 1 illustrates a front view of a coffee package including various components thereof, according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 illustrates a front view of a container used for enclosing a flavored coffee product, according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention; and

FIG. 3 illustrates a perspective view of a coffee package including various components thereof, according to an alternate exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

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