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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 1991
Filed:
May. 14, 1986
Michael G Lindley, Crowthorne, GB;
Elner B Rathbone, Wokingham, GB;
Amstar Sugar Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
The sweetness of an ingestible product or oral composition containing a sweetening sugar or sugar alcohol in relatively large quantities can be reduced and thereby the flavor enhanced by incorporation of at least one compound of the general formula (I) ##STR1## in which m represents 0.1; A represents a homocyclic or heterocyclic aromatic group with one or more rings; and B represents a hydrogen atom, a lower aliphatic group with 1-3 carbon atoms or a phenyl group; or, when m represents O, A and B together represent a bivalent homocyclic or heterocyclic aromatic group with two or more rings, or a methylidene group carrying as a substituent a homocyclic or heterocyclic aromatic group with one or more rings; an aromatic ring of A, or of A and B together, optionally carrying one to three substituents selected from lower alkoxy groups, lower alkyl or alkenyl groups, formyl or acetyl groups, hydroxy groups or acyloxy groups, and halogen atoms;