Beverage products with non-nutritive sweetener and bitterant
AssigneeConcentrate Manufacturing Company of Ireland
InventorsGlenn Roy, Thomas Lee
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Abstract
Aspects of the invention relate to beverage compositions, including, for example, concentrated and ready-to-drink formulations sweetened with at least one non-nutritive sweetener and further comprising a bitterant in an amount sufficient to reduce the lingering sweet aftertaste of the non-nutritive sweetener(s). In certain illustrative embodiments, the bitterant comprises gentian. Another aspect of the invention relates to a method that combines a non-nutritive sweetener having a lingering sweet aftertaste with a bitterant to create a mixture such that when the mixture is contained in a beverage, the bitterant is present in an amount sufficient to reduce the lingering sweet aftertaste of the non-nutritive sweetener.
Claims19
A beverage concentrate for a beverage, comprising:
- a non-nutritive sweetener component comprising rebaudioside A, wherein the rebaudioside A is effective to perceptibly sweeten a full strength beverage when the beverage concentrate is mixed with a diluent to make a full strength beverage;
- and
- a bitterant component;
- wherein the bitterant component comprises a gentian component;
- and
- wherein the concentration of the gentian component is less than 50 parts per million and effective to reduce a lingering sweet aftertaste of the non-nutritive sweetener in a full strength beverage produced by dilution of one part beverage concentrate with five parts water.
A beverage comprising:
- a non-nutritive sweetener component comprising rebaudioside A, wherein the rebaudioside A is effective to perceptibly sweeten the beverage;
- and
- a bitterant component reducing a lingering sweet aftertaste of the non-nutritive sweetener in the beverage;
- wherein the bitterant component comprises a gentian component;
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- wherein the concentration of the gentian component in the beverage is less than 50 parts per million.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.