Problem to be solved: To provide a safe packaged beverage which is well prevented from being decayed by mesophilic thermophilic spores, and to provide a method for producing the same. The present invention relates to a method for producing a packaged beverage in which a container is filled with a hot pack of a beverage, the method comprising a first step of extracting the beverage from a raw material of the beverage, a second step of heat sterilizing the beverage, A third step of hot-pack filling the heat sterilized beverage into a container, wherein the beverage does not contain tannin and germination-inducing substances, does not add an emulsifier, Provided are a method for producing a packaged beverage and a packaged beverage produced by the method. Selected drawing: None
