Tasteful natural sweetener and flavor
AssigneeEPC Natural Products Co., Ltd.
InventorsJingang Shi, Hansheng Wang, Xin Shi, Yi Wang, Wei Lv, Yingxiang Xin, Thomas Eidenberger, Weiyao Shi
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Abstract
The invention describes products, uses thereof, compositions thereof, and methods to prepare products formed from Maillard reaction products from a sugar donor and/or sweet tea extracts, stevia extracts, swingle (mogroside) extracts, one or more sweet tea extract components, one or more steviol glycosides, one or more mogrosides, one or more glycosylated sweet tea glycosides, one or more glycosylated steviol glycosides or one or more glycosylated mogrosides and an amine donor/reactant.
Claims22
A composition comprising:
- (1) an added Maillard reaction product-formed from a reaction mixture comprising:
- (a) one or more amine donor(s) having a free amino group;
- and
- (b) a stevia extract, a steviol glycoside, or a glycosylated steviol glycoside,
- wherein (a) and (b) undergo Maillard reaction at a temperature of 50-250° C.;
- and
- (2) a thickener.
A method for preparing a composition, comprising the steps of:
- preparing a reaction mixture comprising (a) one or more amine donor(s) comprising a free amino group(s) and (b) a stevia extract, a steviol glycoside(s) and/or a glycosylated steviol glycoside(s) or mixtures thereof;
- heating the reaction mixture at a temperature of 50-250° C., wherein (a) and (b) undergo Maillard reaction;
- and
- adding a thickener to the reaction mixture before, during or after the heating step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.