SWEETENER COMPOSITION

• Main Authors: TANAKA SHOZO, TAKAKU HAJIME
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 06.10.1986
• 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

PURPOSE:To obtain a sweetener composition soluble easily in water, free from bitter and astringent taste and having mild sweetness, by adding a branched oligosaccharide having alpha-1,6 bond of glucose to alpha-L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester. CONSTITUTION:The objective sweetener composition is produced by mixing (A) a branched oligosaccharide having alpha-1,6 bond of glucose and (B) alpha-L- aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester. The weight ratio of A:B is 100:(0.3-10) in terms of solid component. Concrete examples of the branched oligosaccharide of the component A are isomaltose, panose, etc. The branched oligosaccharide can be produced e.g. by treating a glucose solution with a glucoamylase, and purifying and concentrating the resultant sugar syrup. The obtained sweetener composition is suitable as a low-calorific sweetener and caries-preventive sweetener, etc.