N-acyl-amino acid derivatives for improvement of the flavour profile edible|compositions

• Main Authors: VAN OMMEREN ESTHER, VORSTER SUSANNA MAGDALENA, RENES HARRY, WANG YILI, DE KLERK ADRI, AUGELLI JENIFER, SHI FENG
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.01.2015
• Subjects: ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMISTRY; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; METALLURGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; 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

The use of a compound according to formula (I) or the edible salts thereof in an edible composition to mask or modulate an undesired taste or off-taste contained in the edible composition (formula 1)) wherein R1 is an alkyl residue containing 6 to 20 carbon atoms, or an alkene residue containing from 9 to 25 carbon atoms with 1 to 6 double bonds, R1 together with the carbonyl group to which it is attached is a residue of a carboxylic acid, and NR2R3, in which R3 is H or together with R2 and the N-atom to which they are attached, a 5-membered ring, is a residue of an amino acid, in particular a proteinogenic amino acid, ornithine, gamma-aminobutyric acid or beta alanine, or a 1-amino cycloalkyl carboxylic acid.