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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2008
Junko Tanizawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiya Fushimi, Yokohama, JP;
Junko Tanizawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiya Fushimi, Yokohama, JP;
Japan Tobacco Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for enhancing salty taste-like taste of food and drink, as well as providing a seasoning composition and a salty taste-like taste enhancer to be provided to the method. The present invention provides a seasoning composition including a 5'-ribonucleotide and a branched-chain amino acid; the seasoning composition and the salty taste-like taste enhancer containing 0.45 to 81 parts by weight of the branched-chain amino acid relative to 100 parts by weight of the 5′-ribonucleotide; and a method for enhancing salty taste-like taste of food and drink containing 2 to 90 parts by weight of the 5′-ribonucleotide and 0.05 to 9 parts by weight of the branched-chain amino acid.