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.
Claims27
A sweetener composition comprising:
- a sweetening agent;
- and
- a Maillard reaction product formed from a reaction mixture comprising:
- (a) one or more Stevia-related components selected from the group consisting of Stevia extracts, glycosylated Stevia extracts, steviol glycosides, and glycosylated steviol glycosides;
- and
- (b) an amine donor,
- wherein (a) and (b) undergo a Maillard reaction at a temperature of 50-250° C. to generate the Maillard reaction product in the absence of the sweetening agent, and
- wherein the sweetener composition has improved mouth feel and taste compared to the sweetening agent.
A method for improving the taste profile and mouth feel of a sweetening agent, comprising the steps of:
- preparing a reaction mixture comprising:
- (a) an amine donor, and (b) glycosylated steviol glycoside;
- heating the reaction mixture at a temperature in the range of 50-250° C., wherein (a) and (b) undergo a Maillard reaction to form a Maillard reaction product;
- and
- adding a sufficient amount of the Maillard reaction product to the sweetening agent to generate a sweetener composition,
- wherein the sweetener composition has improved taste profile and mouth feel compared to the sweetening agent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.