US 12,122,736 B2
Salty taste-enhancing agent and manufacturing method therefor, and salty taste-enhancing method
Takanobu Sakurai, Osaka (JP); Yoichi Kasahara, Osaka (JP); Mitsuru Tanaka, Osaka (JP); Keiko Abe, Saitama (JP); Tomiko Asakura, Tokyo (JP); and Haruyuki Yamashita, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to Nissan Foods Holdings Co., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 14/436,449
Filed by NISSIN FOODS HOLDINGS CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 17, 2013, PCT No. PCT/JP2013/078178
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 16, 2015,
PCT Pub. No. WO2014/061734, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 24, 2014.
Claims priority of application No. 2012-230673 (JP), filed on Oct. 18, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2015/0250217 A1, Sep. 10, 2015
Int. Cl. C07C 277/08 (2006.01); A23L 2/56 (2006.01); A23L 27/00 (2016.01); A23L 27/20 (2016.01); A23L 27/40 (2016.01); C07C 279/02 (2006.01); C07C 279/04 (2006.01); C07C 279/08 (2006.01); C07C 279/14 (2006.01); C07C 319/14 (2006.01); C07C 323/44 (2006.01); C07C 323/45 (2006.01)
CPC C07C 277/08 (2013.01) [A23L 2/56 (2013.01); A23L 27/202 (2016.08); A23L 27/2056 (2016.08); A23L 27/40 (2016.08); A23L 27/45 (2016.08); A23L 27/88 (2016.08); C07C 279/02 (2013.01); C07C 279/04 (2013.01); C07C 279/08 (2013.01); C07C 279/14 (2013.01); C07C 319/14 (2013.01); C07C 323/44 (2013.01); C07C 323/45 (2013.01); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
 
1. A food or beverage, comprising a sodium chloride content of about 0.2 to 2.0 wt % and 15 ppm or more of a compound represented by the following general formula (7) or a salt thereof:

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where p represents an integer of from 3 to 5, said food or beverage having an enhanced salt taste of greater than 5% due to said compound, over the same food or beverage without the compound.