Enhancement of coffee flavor

US3962321A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• General Foods Limited · US

Inventors

• Thomas H. Parliment · New City, US
• William P. Clinton · Monsey, US
• Richard Scarpellino · Ramsey, US
• Robert J. Soukup · Frankfurt, DE
• Martin Franklin Epstein · Pearl River, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 1973
• Grant date: Jun 8, 1976
• Expiry date: Dec 17, 1993

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C45/515
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Enhancement of the coffee flavor of foodstuffs is achieved by the addition of a small but effective amount of a mixture of a) 2-nonenal, and/or 2-nonenol and particular derivatives thereof; and b) a compound represented by ##SPC1## Where X is oxygen or sulfur, R is lower alkyl, and R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.3 is hydrogen or alkyl provided at least one of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.3 is alkyl of two to twelve carbons.