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US 12,122,736 B2Granted
Salty taste-enhancing agent and manufacturing method therefor, and salty taste-enhancing method
AssigneeNissan Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakanobu Sakurai, Yoichi Kasahara, Mitsuru Tanaka, Keiko Abe, Tomiko Asakura, Haruyuki Yamashita
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Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel salty taste-enhancing agent and production method therefor, and salty taste-enhancing method for a food and beverage. As means for achieving such object, provided is a salty taste-enhancing agent.
Claims4
A food or beverage, comprising a sodium chloride content of about 0.2 to 2.0 wt % and 15 ppm or more of a compound represented by the following general formula (7) or a salt thereof:
- where p represents an integer of from 3 to 5, said food or beverage having an enhanced salt taste of greater than 5% due to said compound, over the same food or beverage without the compound.
A salty taste-enhancing method for a food or beverage, comprising
- a step of adding a compound represented by the following general formula (7) or a salt thereof:
- where p represents an integer of from 3 to 5, to a food or beverage containing a sodium chloride content of about 0.2 to 2.0 wt %, and to a content of 15 ppm or more,
- thereby enhancing, by an amount greater than 5%, the salty taste of the food or beverage, over the same food or beverage without the compound.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.