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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2015
The Coca-cola Company, Atlanta, GA (US);
Indra Prakash, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Grant E. DuBois, Roswell, GA (US);
Josef Klucik, Marietta, GA (US);
Rafael I. San Miguel, Smyrna, GA (US);
Rudolf Johann Fritsch, Atlanta, GA (US);
Venkata Sai Prakash Chaturvedula, Gilbert, AZ (US);
The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are sweetener compositions comprising at least one sweetener and at least one sweetness enhancer chosen from terpenes (such as sesquiterpenes, diterpenes, and triterpenes), flavonoids, amino acids, proteins, polyols, other known natural sweeteners (such as cinnamaldehydes, selligueians, hematoxylins), secodammarane glycosides, and analogues thereof, wherein the at least one sweetness enhancer is present in the composition in an amount at or below the sweetness detection threshold level of the sweetness ehancer, and the at least one sweetener and the at least one sweetness enhancer are different. Also disclosed herein are methods for enhancing sweetness of a composition, comprising combining at least one sweetener and at least one sweetness enhancer chosen from terpenes (such as sesquiterpenes, diterpenes, and triterpenes), flavonoids, amino acids, proteins, polyols, other known natural sweeteners (such as cinnamaldehydes, selligueians, hematoxylins), secodammarane glycosides, and analogues thereof, wherein the at least one sweetness enhancer is present in the composition in an amount at or below the sweetness detection threshold level of the at least one sweetness enhancer, and the at least one sweetener and the at least one sweetness enhancer are different.