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The present invention discloses a method of introducing a nutraceutical to a beverage comprising treating a beverage with a primary sterilizing agent, such as ozonation, filling a container with said beverage, adding an amount of a nutraceutical and sealing said container. The present invention allo

The present invention discloses a method of introducing a nutraceutical to a beverage comprising treating a beverage with a primary sterilizing agent, such as ozonation, filling a container with said beverage, adding an amount of a nutraceutical and sealing said container. The present invention allows for the production of a suitably sterile beverage without a substantial loss in the activity, or change in the structure, of a nutraceutical.

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1. A nutraceutical beverage produced by the process comprising:forming a nutraceutical comprising forskohlin, hydroxycitric acid, and salts thereof, and fructooligosaccharides, wherein a weight of forskohlin to a weight of said hydroxycitric acid, and salts thereof, is a ratio of about 1 to about 3,

1. A nutraceutical beverage produced by the process comprising:forming a nutraceutical comprising forskohlin, hydroxycitric acid, and salts thereof, and fructooligosaccharides, wherein a weight of forskohlin to a weight of said hydroxycitric acid, and salts thereof, is a ratio of about 1 to about 3, and wherein a weight of said forskohlin to a weight of said fructooligosaccharides is in a ratio of about 1 to about 10; forming a shelf-stable syrup, wherein said forskohlin, hydroxycitric acid, and salts thereof, and fructooligosaccharides are introduced into water to form said shelf-stable syrup having a dissolved solid content between about 65 and about 75 brix by weight; heating said shelf-stable syrup to a temperature between about 138° C. and about 145° C. for between about 2 and about 8 seconds; ozonating at least a part of a purified water to form an ozonated purified water having a dissolved ozone concentration between about 0.2 and about 0.4 mg/L; providing a container having an internal volume at least equal to a nutraceutical volume and a purified water volume, said container including a sealable opening communicating with said internal volume; adding said ozonated purified water to said container in the amount of said purified water volume; adding said shelf-stable syrup to said container in the amount of said nutraceutical volume; adding a supplemental sterilizing agent having about 0.25 to about 0.5 mg/L copper to a volume selected from the group consisting of said nutraceutical volume and said purified water volume; and sealing said sealable opening of said container, thereby providing a purified water based nutraceutical beverage. 2. The nutraceutical beverage according to claim 1, wherein said purified water comprises a final forskohlin concentration of about 100 mg/L, a final hydroxycitric acid, and salts thereof, concentration of about 300 mg/L and a final fructooligosaccharides concentration of about 1 g/L.3. A method of adding a nutraceutical to an aqueous liquid to form a shelf-stable beverage comprising:ozonating at least a part of said aqueous liquid to form an ozonated aqueous liquid; providing a container having an internal volume at least equal to a pre-selected nutraceutical amount and a pre-selected aqueous liquid amount, said container including a sealable opening communicating with said internal volume; adding said ozonated pre-selected aqueous liquid amount to said container; adding said pre-selected nutraceutical amount to said container, wherein said nutruceutical comprises forskohlin, hydroxycitric acid, and salts thereof, and fructooligosaccharides, present in a final amount having a ratio of said forskohlin to said hydroxycitric acid, and salts thereof, of about 1:1 to about 1:3, and a ratio of said forskohlin to said fructooligosaccharides of about 1:1 to about 1:10; and sealing said sealable opening of said container. 4. The method of claim 3, wherein said aqueous liquid is chilled prior to adding ozone and comprises purified water, wherein said ozonated aqueous liquid has an ozone concentration between about 0.2 and about 0.4 mg/L, said nutraceutical comprising a shelf-stable syrup having a dissolved solid content between about 65 and about 75 brix, said method further comprising:heating said shelf-stable syrup to a temperature between about 138° C. and about 145° C., wherein said heating is done before adding said nutraceutical to said container in the amount of said nutraceutical volume, and; adding a supplemental sterilizing agent having a copper compound, thereby forming a shelf-stable beverage.