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Flavor potentiated oral compositions containing thaumatin or monellin
Assignee: Nutriad Ltd
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Filing: 1981-09-10
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Granted: 1983-11-01
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Expires: 2001-09-10
Abstract
Abstract A flavored oral composition contains thaumatin or monellin at a flavor potentiating level, which level is below the sweetness threshold of thaumatin or monellin respectively in the composition; a flavoring composition comprises a solution or dispersion of a flavoring agent in a carrier therefor, and also contains thaumatin or monellin at a flavor potentiating level, which level is below the level required to provide sweetness in a substrate when the flavoring composition is added thereto in a flavoring amount; a method of potentiating and extending the flavor of an oral composition comprises adding thereto thaumatin or monellin at a flavor-potentiating level below the sweetness threshold of thaumatin or monellin respectively.
Inventors
- 👤 Henricus E. van der Loo
- 👤 Charles Wiener
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-25 22:48
CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61Q; A61Q11/00; A23; A23G; A23G3/00; A23G3/34; A23G3/36; A23G3/44; A23G4/00; A23G4/06; A23G4/14; A24; A24D; A24D3/00; A24D3/06; A24D3/14; A61K; A61K8/00; A61K8/18; A61K8/30; A61K8/64; A61K8/645
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
29 words
A flavoured oral composition containing thaumatin or monellin at a flavour potentiating level, which level is below the detectable sweetness threshold of thaumatin or monellin respectively in the composition.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
29 words
A flavoured oral composition containing thaumatin or monellin at a flavour potentiating level, which level is below the detectable sweetness threshold of thaumatin or monellin respectively in the composition.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
19 words
The composition of claim 1 containing thaumatin or monellin at a level of about 10-75% of the sweetness threshold.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
40 words
The composition of claim 1, containing a flavour selected from the group consisting of citrus fruit flavours, peppermint, spearmint, menthol, tea, coffee, chocolate, vanilla, ginger, strawberry, apple, cinnamon, wintergreen, licorice, aniseed, curry, onion, garlic, mustard, fish extracts and meat extracts.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
51 words
A flavouring composition comprising a solution or dispersion of a flavouring agent in a carrier therefor, and also containing thaumatin or monellin at a flavour potentiating level, which level is below the level required to provide sweetness in a substrate when the flavouring composition is added thereto in a flavouring amount.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
51 words
A flavouring composition comprising a solution or dispersion of a flavouring agent in a carrier therefor, and also containing thaumatin or monellin at a flavour potentiating level, which level is below the level required to provide sweetness in a substrate when the flavouring composition is added thereto in a flavouring amount.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
38 words
The composition of claim 4, comprising an aqueous alcoholic solution of a flavouring essence or flavouring oil selected from the group consisting of peppermint, spearmint, menthol, coffee, chocolate, vanilla, ginger, orange, strawberry, lemon, apple, cinnamon, wintergreen and aniseed.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
17 words
The composition of claim 5, containing thaumatin in an amount of 1-10% by weight of flavouring solution.
Claim 9
Independent Claim
35 words
A method of potentiating and extending the detectable flavour of an oral composition by adding thereto thaumatin or monellin at a flavour-potentiating level below the sweetness threshold of thaumatin or monellin respectively in the composition.
Claim 10
Independent Claim
35 words
A method of potentiating and extending the detectable flavour of an oral composition by adding thereto thaumatin or monellin at a flavour-potentiating level below the sweetness threshold of thaumatin or monellin respectively in the composition.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
16 words
The method of claim 7, wherein the said level is about 10-75% of the sweetness threshold.
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