US 11,998,032 B2
Food or beverage with increased sweetness
Tadahiro Ohkuri, Kanagawa (JP); Akiko Fujie, Kanagawa (JP); and Yoshiaki Yokoo, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED, Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 16/619,758
Filed by SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED, Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Jun. 7, 2018, PCT No. PCT/JP2018/021842
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 5, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/225817, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 13, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-113760 (JP), filed on Jun. 8, 2017; and application No. 2017-198815 (JP), filed on Oct. 12, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0205451 A1, Jul. 2, 2020
Int. Cl. A23L 27/30 (2016.01); A23L 2/60 (2006.01); A23L 27/12 (2016.01); A23L 27/40 (2016.01)
CPC A23L 27/36 (2016.08) [A23L 2/60 (2013.01); A23L 27/12 (2016.08); A23L 27/30 (2016.08); A23L 27/31 (2016.08); A23L 27/40 (2016.08); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A food or beverage comprising
(a) a natural sugar in an amount corresponding to sweetness intensity X1,
(b) a high-intensity sweetener in an amount corresponding to sweetness intensity X2, and
(c) 5.75 mg/100 ml or more and 26 mg/100 ml or less of sodium,
wherein the food or beverage exhibits a sweetness of sweetness intensity X3 by the ingredients (a) to (c),
wherein the food or beverage has an energy of 50 Kcal/100 ml or less, wherein 2.0≤(X1+X2)<X3≤20, 0≤X1≤4.5, 1.0≤X2≤11, and 2.0≤X1+X2≤11,
wherein the high-intensity sweetener is rebaudioside M, rebaudioside D, luo han guo extract, mogroside V, or a combination thereof;
wherein the natural sugar is glucose, sucrose, fructose, maltose, fructooligosaccharide, maltooligosaccharide, isomaltooligosaccharide, galactooligosaccharide, an isomerized sugar, lactose, psicose, or a combination thereof;
wherein the sodium is from sodium chloride, sodium malate, sodium sulfate, sodium citrate, sodium phosphate, sodium carbonate, sodium disulfide, sodium bicarbonate, sodium alginate, sodium argininate, sodium glucoheptonate, sodium gluconate, sodium glutamate, sodium tartrate, sodium aspartate, sodium lactate, casein sodium, sodium ascorbate, or a mixture thereof; and
wherein the food is a fluid or a liquid.