FOOD/BEVERAGE UNPLEASANT TASTE MASKING AGENT CONTAINING DODECENOIC ACID AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT

• Main Authors: KONISHI SHUNSUKE, NOZAWA TOSHIFUMI, ABE KOJI, NAKANISHI HIROSHI, OKUBO KOJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 26.11.2020
• 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

To provide a masking agent that can, when there is an unpleasant taste that is a flavor possessed by food/beverage but is unfavorable in respect of product design, reduce the unpleasant taste and improve it to a generally favorable flavor originally possessed by the food/beverage, and, furthermore, a masking agent that has all of many advantages including: a high versatility that the agent can be used in a variety of food/beverage because the aroma/flavor is hardly felt at the concentration actually added to food/beverage; a high safety that is backed by abundant eating experience; and a high cost performance that can be achieved with inexpensive raw material which can easily be obtained on a daily basis.SOLUTION: Provided is a food/beverage unpleasant taste masking agent comprising one or more selected from 7-dodecenoic acid, 8-dodecenoic acid, 9-dodecenoic acid or 10-dodecenoic acid.SELECTED DRAWING: None 【課題】飲食品が有している風味ではあるが、商品設計上好ましくない不快味がある場合にそれらの不快味を低減し、その飲食品が本来持っている総合的に好ましい風味へと改善できるマスキング剤を提供する。更には、実際に飲食品に添加する濃度では香気・香味を感じにくいため、様々な飲食物に利用できる汎用性の高さ、豊富な食経験に裏打ちされた高い安全性、日常的に手軽に入手できる安価な原材料で達成可能な高いコストパフォーマンスという多くの利点を併せ持ったマスキング剤の提供。【解決手段】７−ドデセン酸、８−ドデセン酸、９−ドデセン酸又は１０−ドデセン酸から選択される１種又は２種以上からなる飲食品の不快味のマスキング剤。【選択図】なし