Sweetener having an improved sucrose-like taste and process for the preparation thereof and use thereof

US6180155A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Nufrinova GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Lotz · Kelkheim, DE
• Manfred Bohshar · Kelkheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 28, 1998
• Grant date: Jan 30, 2001
• Expiry date: Jan 28, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S426/804
• WIPO field: Food chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Sweetener having an improved sucrose-like taste and process for the preparation thereof and use thereof. A sweetener having improved sucrose-like taste which contains at least one synthetic sweetener or a mixture of different artificial sweeteners and at least one deoxysugar, in particular rhamnose or fucose. A process for the preparation of this sweetener and use thereof for the production of artificial sweeteners for table use, for sweetening foods and for improving flavor development in foods