Firmenich Sa

Interquim, S.a.

Maxime Delattre

Jean-Luc Gelin

Ronald Harry Skiff

Long In Lou

Angela Di Pietro

Isabelle Cayeux

Ronald H Skiff

Eric Frerot

Tom Nelly D'hoore

Tom Nelly Aimé D'HOORE

Use of 7-[4,5-dihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)-3-(3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-methyloxan-2-yl)oxyoxan-2-yl]oxy-5-hydroxy-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)chromen-4-one (rhoifolin) as a taste modifying ingredient in order to reduce bitterness and/or increase sweetness of a foodstuff or beverage.

Taste-modifying ingredient

Provided herein is a method of reducing the off-taste of a food or beverage wherein the off-taste is selected from the group consisting of licorice, astringency, bitterness and sweet lingering comprising adding about 10 to about 40 ppm, phloretin to the food or beverage wherein the phloretin is provided in the substantial absence of a bitterness-masking aroma substance selected from the groups consisting of homoeriodictylol, homoeriodictyol sodium salt, homoeriodictylol potassium salt or mixtures thereof and wherein the phloretin does not significantly enhance the sweetness of the article or composition.

Phloretin

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Geneva, Switzerland

Maxime Delattre