Chewing gums of longer lasting sweetness and flavor
AssigneeGeneral Foods Corporation
InventorsBernard J. Bahoshy, Robert E. Klose, Harold A. Nordstrom
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Abstract
Chewing gums having longer lasting sweetness and flavor are prepared from compositions comprising a chewable gum base, flavor, sweetener in an amount sufficient to impart normally accepted sweetness to the gum, L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl esters in an amount effective to produce longer lasting sweetness and flavor. The chewing gums may be either sugarcontaining or sugarless.
Claims6
In a chewing gum composition which comprises gum base, flavor and major amount of sweet bulking agent selected from the group consisting of sugar, sugar alcohols and mixtures thereof, the improvement which comprises at least 0.3% L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester by weight of the total gum composition, whereby the normal sweetness and flavor is extended.
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