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AssigneeFrito-Lay North America, Inc.
InventorsStefan K. BAIER, Peta-Gaye CHAMBERS, Winsome JOHNSON, Rajesh Venkata POTINENI
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A flavor-enhanced beverage includes an added amount of pyroglutamic acid or a salt thereof. The pyroglutamic acid may be in the form of L-pyroglutamic acid, D-pyroglutamic acid, monosodium L-pyroglutamate, monosodium D-pyroglutamate, or a mixture thereof. Both ready-to-drink beverages (such as fruit juices, vegetable juices, coffee, tea, carbonated soft drinks, energy drinks, sports drinks, dairy, and low calorie drinks) as well as concentrated beverages used for the preparation of ready-to-drink beverages benefit from the addition of the pyroglutamic acid. The addition to a beverage product may be in an amount of up to about 3,000 ppm of pyroglutamic acid or a salt thereof, in concentrates, or up to about 300 ppm in ready-to-drink beverages.
A beverage product comprising an added amount of pyroglutamic acid or a salt thereof,
A method of enhancing mouthfeel of a beverage product, the method comprising adding pyroglutamic acid or a salt thereof to the beverage product in an amount sufficient to obtain a concentration of added pyroglutamic acid or salt thereof in the beverage product from about 5 ppm to less than 100 ppm by weight of the beverage product.
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