Use of 3-(3-hydroxy-4-methoxy-phenyl)-1-(2,4,6-trihydroxy-phenyl) propan-1-one

A method for masking, reducing, and/or suppressing an unpleasant taste impression of an unpleasant tasting substance and/or for modulating a cooling, an umami, a fruity, and/or a spicy taste impression of a cooling, an umami, a fruity, and/or a spicy tasting substance, the method comprising mixing:

• (i) hesperetin dihydrochalcone (I) (3-(3-Hydroxy-4-methoxy-phenyl)-1-(2,4,6-trihydroxyphenyl)propan-1-one),
• a salt of the hesperetin dihydrochalcone (I), a mixture of a plurality of salts of the hesperetin dihydrochalcone (I), or a mixture of the hesperetin dihydrochalcone (I) and a salt or a plurality of salts of the hesperetin dihydrochalcone (I), and
• (ii) an unpleasant, a cooling, an umami, a fruity and/or a spicy tasting substance,
• wherein the method intensifies a sweet-taste impression of a sweet-tasting substance, a mixture of sweet-tasting substances, both a sweet- and bitter-tasting substance, or a mixture of both sweet- and bitter-tasting substances,
• wherein
• the unpleasant-tasting substance is selected from the group consisting of xanthine alkaloids, xanthines, alkaloids, phenolic glycosides, flavonoid glycosides, chalcones or chalcone glycosides, hydrolysable tannins, non-hydrolysable tannins, flavones, other polyphenols, terpenoid bitter substances, absinthin from wormwood, amarogentin from gentian, metal salts, pharmaceutically active ingredients:
• fluoroquinolone antibiotics, beta-lactam antibiotics, ambroxol, propylthiouracil [PROP], aspirin (acetyl salicylic acid), salicin, paracetamol (acetaminophene), ibuprofen, naproxen, ambroxol, guafenesin, omeprazole, pantoprazole, dextromorphane, or quinine, vitamins, denatonium benzoate or other denatonium salts, sucralose octaacetate, urea, unsaturated fatty acids, and amino acids,
• and/or
• the both sweet- and unpleasant-tasting substance is selected from the group consisting of steviolglycosides, rubusoside, dulcoside, mogroside, phyllodulcin, glycyrrhetin acid or extracts of Stevia ssp., Luo Han Guo, Rubus suavissimus, Hydrangea dulcis, Mycetia balansae, Glycyrrhyza glabra, magap, sodium cyclamate, acesulfame K, neohesperidine dihydrochalcone, naringin hydrochalcone, saccharin, saccharin sodium salt, aspartame, superaspartame, neotame, alitame, sucralose, lug-duname, carrelame, sucrononate, and sucrooctate.