SWEETNESS IMPROVING AGENT AND FOODS CONTAINING THE SAME

• Main Authors: ARAKI, HIROKO, AOYAGI, YOSHIKI, SAITO, SUSUMU, UCHIMURA, NOBUHIRO, KUBOTA, YUUKI, SHINHASHI, OSAMU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 29.06.2010
• Subjects: FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

Sweetness improving agents capable of improving sweetness characteristics, in particular, aftertaste characteristics. More particularly, the sweetness improving agents contain as the active ingredient a yeast extract, in particular, one containing sodium 5'-inosinate and/or sodium 5'-adenylate, sodium 5'-guanylate, sodium 5'-uridylate and sodium 5'-cytidylate, each in an amount of 1 to 15 % based on the weight of the yeast extract, and 1 to 20 % of sodium glutamate.