Potassium bicarbonate as a sweetness enhancer
OwnerAbraham Bakalinventor
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Abstract
Potassium bicarbonate is used to provide sweetness to or to enhance the sweetness of ingestible and oral non-ingestible products.
Claims15
A sweetened composition selected from the group oral compositions and ingestible compositions wherein said sweetened composition comprises a sweetening or sweetness enhancing effective amount of potassium bicarbonate.
A method of making a sweetened oral product or a sweetened ingestible composition comprising incorporating into said composition a sweetening or sweetener enhancing effective amount of potassium bicarbonate.
A method of sweetening a composition selected from an ingestible product, or oral product, and an oral care product comprising adding to a formulation for said composition a sweetening or sweetness enhancing effective amount of potassium bicarbonate as the only sweetener, or in combination with other nutritive and/or non-nutritive sweeteners.
A method of reducing the amount of sweetener in a composition, comprising replacing a portion or all of said sweetener with a sweetening or sweetness enhnacing effective amount of potassium bicarbonate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.