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US 4,399,162 AGranted
Dipeptide sweetening composition
AssigneeAjinomoto Co., Inc.
InventorYuzo Okada
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Abstract
A dipeptide sweetening composition, comprising a unit weight of a dipeptide sweetener and at least one flavoring agent in an amount sufficient to impart the tasting strength equal to that of 10 to 200% by weight of monosodium L-glutamate based upon the weight of the dipeptide sweetener, the flavoring agent being selected from the group consisting of sodium glutamate, sodium inosine-5'-phosphate, sodium guanosine-5'-phosphate and sodium aspartate.
Claims4
A dipeptide sweetening composition comprising:
- (a) a unit weight of the methyl or ethyl ester of .alpha.- L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine and (b) a flavoring agent in an amount sufficient to impart the tasting strength equal to that of 10 to 200 wt % of monosodium L-glutamate based on the weight of the dipeptide sweetener, said flavoring agent being monosodium glutamate optionally in the presence of at least one flavoring agent selected from the group consisting of sodium inosine-5'-phosphate, sodium guanosine-5'-phosphate and sodium aspartate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.