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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
May. 01, 2024
Primient Covation Llc, Loudon, TN (US);
Sean L. Gahan, Knoxville, TN (US);
Stephen J. Hurff, Newark, DE (US);
Rafael I. San Miguel, Atlanta, GA (US);
James A. Zahn, Knoxville, TN (US);
Primient Covation LLC, Loudon, TN (US);
Abstract
A method of improving taste and/or off-taste of a food, beverage, confection, or concentrate composition includes a step of providing a food, beverage, confection, or concentrate composition that includes two or more of: a sour additive; a bitter additive; and a sweetener. The method also includes a step of adding 1,3-propanediol to the food, beverage, confection, or concentrate composition to form a tasteful composition, whereby said tasteful composition has improved taste and/or off-taste as compared to a food, beverage, confection, or concentrate composition that does not include 1,3-propanediol.