Sweetness and taste improvement of non-sucrose sweeteners with d-sugars or l-sugars
AssigneeThe Coca-Cola Company
InventorsIndra Prakash, Rashmi Tiwari
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Abstract
Compositions and consumables comprising at least one D-sugar or L-sugar and a non-sucrose sweetener (e.g., a steviol glycoside sweetener or mogroside sweetener) are provided herein. Methods for modulating one or more taste attributes, included enhancing sweetness, improving temporal profile, reducing sweet linger, reducing bitterness, improving mouthfeel, improving taste and/or sweet intensity, of a consumable are disclosed. The compositions and methods can be used to make a consumable taste more like a sucrose-sweetened consumable.
Claims18
A consumable comprising:
- (i) at least one non-sucrose sweetener and (ii) at least one D-sugar or L-sugar in an amount from about 0.5 to about 3.0 wt. %.
A composition comprising (i) a steviol glycoside sweetener or a mogroside sweetener and (ii) D-sugar or L-sugar, wherein the steviol glycoside sweetener or mogroside sweetener is present in the composition in an amount such that, when the composition is added to a consumable, the steviol glycoside sweetener or mogroside sweetener is present in the consumable in a sweetening amount and the D-sugar or L-sugar is present in an amount from about 0.5 to about 3.0 wt. %.
A method for modulating one or more taste attributes of a consumable comprises (i) providing a consumable comprising a steviol glycoside sweetener or a mogroside sweetener and (ii) adding D-sugar and/or L-sugar to the consumable in an amount effective to provide a consumable modulation of one or more taste attributes;
- wherein the one or more taste attributes are selected from sweetness, temporal profile, sweet linger, bitterness, mouthfeel, taste and/or sweet intensity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.