Foodstuffs containing hydrobenzene organic acids as sweetness modifying agents
AssigneeGeneral Foods Corporation
InventorsRonald E. Barnett, Ronald G. Yarger
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Abstract
Food acceptable sweetness modifying compounds comprising certain hydroxy aromatic acids having the formula ##STR1## wherein A e.g. is COOH or SO.sub.3 H, Y is hydroxy and R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are e.g. hydrogen or alkyl and foodstuff compositions containing the same. Other sweetness modifying agents included within the scope of the invention include 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid, 2-hydroxy-4-aminobenzoic acid and 3-hydroxy-4-aminobenzoic acid.
Claims12
A composition comprising a foodstuff or pharmaceutical preparations and a sweetness inhibiting agent, said sweetness inhibiting agent being present in amounts to perceive a sweetness inhibiting effect in said composition and having the structure selected from the group consisting of:
- ##STR5## Wherein Y is an OH group or salt thereof;
- R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl group containing from 1 to 3 carbon atoms, OH, OCH.sub.3, OCH.sub.2 CH.sub.3, CHO, COCH.sub.3, COOH, COOCH.sub.3, OCOCH.sub.3, CONH.sub.2, SO.sub.2 NH.sub.2 and NH.sub.2 and with the provisio that in structure (iii), R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are not all hydrogen and a further provisio that R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are not NH.sub.2.
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