Flavoring with mixtures of theobromine and cyclic dipeptides
AssigneeFirmenich SA
InventorsWilhelm Pickenhagen, Paul Dietrich, Borivoj Keil, Edgar Lederer
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Abstract
Compositions useful in the flavoring of foodstuffs and the like to impart bitterness and astringent flavor thereto wherein said composition comprises compounds A and B, said A compound being a cyclic dipeptide and said B compound being a purine derivative.
Claims6
A flavoring composition capable of imparting and enhancing a bitter and astrigent flavor to a foodstuff or beverage selected from the group consisting essentially of cocoa, a cocoa product or a cocoa imitating substitute which composition comprises, as an active ingredient, components A and B, said component A being a cyclic dipeptide or mixtures of two cyclic dipeptides and said component B being theobromine in the following weight ratios:
- a. when component A is a single cyclic dipeptide, in the weight ratio of from 1.1:1 to 1:2;
- b. when the component A is a mixture of two cyclic dipeptides, in the weight ratio of from about 1:1:1 to 1:3:5.
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