Sweetness inhibitor
AssigneeKraft General Foods, Inc.
InventorsMarcia D. Palmer, Gary L. Hickernell, Paul R. Zanno
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Abstract
A sweetness inhibited ingestible product and a process for inhibiting sweetness is disclosed. In this product and process an effective sweetness inhibiting amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal heptyl sulfonate, an alkaline earth metal heptyl sulfonate, an alkali metal octyl sulfonate, an alkaline earth metal octyl sulfonate and mixtures thereof is added to an ingestible composition to which a sweetener has been added.
Claims18
A process for inhibiting sweetness in ingestible products comprising adding, to an ingestible composition containing a sweetener, an effective sweetness inhibiting amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal heptyl sulfonate, an alkaline earth metal heptyl sulfonate, an alkali metal octyl sulfonate, an alkaline earth octyl sulfonate and mixtures thereof, said sweetness inhibiting compound is present in a concentration in the range of between about 0.005 and 1.0 percent by weight, based on the total weight of the ingestible product, and said sweetener is present in the range between 1 percent to about 50 percent sucrose equivalency.
An ingestible product comprising an ingestible composition, a sweetener and a sweetness inhibitor, said inhibitor selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal heptyl sulfonate, an alkaline earth metal heptyl sulfonate, an alkali metal octyl sulfonate, an alkaline earth metal octyl sulfonate and mixtures thereof, wherein said sweetness inhibitor is present in a concentration in the range of between about 0.005 and 1.0 percent by weight, based on the total weight of said ingestible product, and said sweetener present in the range between 1 percent to about 50 percent sucrose equivalency.
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