Food or beverage with increased sweetness

A method for producing a food or beverage, comprising:

• to raw materials,
• (i) adding (a) a natural sugar in an amount of sweetness intensity X1 and (b) a high-intensity sweetener in an amount of sweetness intensity X2;
• and
• (ii) adding (c) 5.75 mg/100 ml or more and 26 mg/100 ml or less of sodium,
• wherein the food or beverage exhibits a sweetness of sweetness intensity X3 by the ingredients (a) to (c),
• wherein the food or beverage has an energy of 50 Kcal/100 ml or less,
• wherein 2.0≤(X1+X2)<X3≤20, 0≤X1≤4.5, 1.0≤X2≤11, and 2.0≤X1+X2≤11,
• wherein the high-intensity sweetener is rebaudioside M, rebaudioside D, luo han guo extract, mogroside V, or a combination thereof;
• wherein the natural sugar is glucose, sucrose, fructose, maltose, fructooligosaccharide, maltooligosaccharide, isomaltooligosaccharide, galactooligosaccharide, an isomerized sugar, lactose, psicose, or a combination thereof;
• wherein the sodium is from sodium chloride, sodium malate, sodium sulfate, sodium citrate, sodium phosphate, sodium carbonate, sodium disulfide, sodium bicarbonate, sodium alginate, sodium argininate, sodium glucoheptonate, sodium gluconate, sodium glutamate, sodium tartrate, sodium aspartate, sodium lactate, casein sodium, sodium ascorbate, or a mixture thereof;
• and
• wherein the food is a fluid or a liquid.

A composition comprising a natural sugar, a high-intensity sweetener, and sodium, which composition is configured to be blended with a food or beverage such that after blending the food or beverage

• (a) comprises the natural sugar in an amount corresponding to sweetness intensity X1,
• (b) comprises the high-intensity sweetener in an amount corresponding to sweetness intensity X2, and
• (c) comprises 5.75 mg/100 ml or more and 26 mg/100 ml or less of sodium,
• (d) exhibits a sweetness of sweetness intensity X3 by the ingredients (a) to (c), and
• (e) has an energy of 50 Kcal/100 ml or less,
• wherein 2.0≤(X1+X2)<X3≤20, 0≤X1≤4.5, 1.0≤X2≤11, and 2.0≤X1+X2≤11,
• wherein the high-intensity sweetener is rebaudioside M, rebaudioside D, luo han guo extract, mogroside V, or a combination thereof;
• wherein the natural sugar is glucose, sucrose, fructose, maltose, fructooligosaccharide, maltooligosaccharide, isomaltooligosaccharide, galactooligosaccharide, an isomerized sugar, lactose, psicose, or a combination thereof;
• wherein the sodium is from sodium chloride, sodium malate, sodium sulfate, sodium citrate, sodium phosphate, sodium carbonate, sodium disulfide, sodium bicarbonate, sodium alginate, sodium argininate, sodium glucoheptonate, sodium gluconate, sodium glutamate, sodium tartrate, sodium aspartate, sodium lactate, casein sodium, sodium ascorbate, or a mixture thereof;
• wherein the food is a fluid or a liquid;
• wherein all of the natural sugar, high-intensity sweetener, and sodium present in the food or beverage is from the composition;
• and
• wherein sweetness intensity is the numerical value obtained by multiplying the degree of sweetness of the substance by the concentration Brix value of the substance, where a degree of sweetness of 1 is the sweetness exhibited by sucrose per unit concentration Brix.