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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
May. 07, 1999
Alida G. M. Admiraal, Roosendaal, NL;
Maria M. A. Rooyakkers, Roosendaal, NL;
Annette C. Hoek, Kerkrade, NL;
Holland Sweetener Company V.O.F., Geleen, NL;
Abstract
The invention relates to soft drinks, concentrates and syrups sweetened with a dipeptide sweetener and containing a fructosyl saccharide. The sweetening power of these products is maintained for longer during storage if the fructosyl saccharide therein is a fructan with fructosyl units linked mainly via a &bgr;-2,1 bond, and a chain length of 3 to 100 units, with the modal and the mean chain length each being at least 4.75, and with the pH of the products being 2.5 to 4. The invention also relates to a method of maintaining the sweetening power of soft drinks, concentrates or syrups sweetened with a dipeptide sweetener, during storage, by adding a fructosyl saccharide with the abovementioned characteristics, before the products are put into storage, and adjusting the pH to between 2.5 and 4.