Use of sclareolide in augmenting or enhancing the organoleptic properties of foodstuffs

• US 4,917,913 A
• Filed: 09/29/1989
• Issued: 04/17/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: International Flavors & Fragrances Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Flavors & Fragrances Incorporated
• Inventors: Kossiakoff, Nicolas, Farbood, Mohamad I., Scharpf, Lewis G., Buckholz, Lawrence Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Golian, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US07/418,171
• Time in Patent Office: 200 Days
• Field of Search: 426/536, 426/548, 426/594, 426/649, 426/565, 426/583, 426/582
• US Class Current: 426/536
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 27/2052 having oxygen or sulfur as the only hetero atoms
• CPC Class Codes: C11B 9/0076 the hetero rings containing less than six atoms

Abstract

Described is the use of sclareolide in augmenting or enhancing the organoleptic properties of foodstuffs whereby:

(i) richness and creaminess is added to low fat ice cream by admixing therewith the sclareolide;

(ii) the sweetness of foodstuffs and beverages sweetened with non-neutrative sweeteners, e.g., aspartame is enhanced by admixing with the non-neutrative sweetener, prior to addition to the beverage or foodstuff, sclareolide; and

(iii) bitter nuances imparted by the use of potassium chloride in salt substitutes are substantially covered by means of admixing such salt substitutes with sclareolide.

Claims

1. A process for enhancing the taste of a cheddar cheese flavored foodstuff consisting essentially of the step of adding to said foodstuff a taste enhancing quantity, from about 0.5% up to to about 25% by weight of said foodstuff on a dry basis, of a mixed seasoning composition of matter consisting essentially of:

(a) from about 0.25 up to about 0.80 mole percent on a dry basis of a lactic acid/lactate species mixture having the structure;

##STR29## (b) from 0 up to about 0.09 mole percent on a dry basis of glycollic acid/glycollate ion species mixture having the structure;

##STR30## (c) from about 0 up to about 10.0 mole percent on a dry basis of magnesium ion;

(d) from about 6 mole percent up to about 50 mole percent on a dry basis of a phosphate/monoacid phosphate/diacid phosphate/phosphoric acid species mixture having the formula;

space="preserve" listing-type="equation">[PO.sub.4.sup.= ]+[HPO.sub.4.sup.= ]+[H.sub.2 PO.sub.4.sup.- ]+H.sub.3 PO.sub.4

taken alone or taken further together with at least one of the species tripolyphosphate, pyrophosphate and/or polymetaphosphate;

(e) from 0 mole percent up to about 40 mole percent on a dry basis of sodium ion;

(f) from about 8 mole percent up to about 50 mole percent on a dry basis of potassium ion;

(g) from about 0.3 mole percent up to about 16 mole percent on a dry basis of chloride ion;

(h) from 0 mole percent up to 30 mole percent on a dry basis of carbonate/bicarbonate/carbonic acid species mixture having the formula;

space="preserve" listing-type="equation">[CO.sub.3.sup.= ]+[HCO.sub.3.sup.- ]+H.sub.2 CO.sub.3

(i) from 0 mole percent up to about 2.0 mole percent on a dry basis of monobasic glutamate/dibasic glutamate/gluamic acid species mixture having the formulae;

##STR31## (j) from 0 up to about 0.6 mole percent on a dry basis of calcium ion; and

(k) from 0.1 up to about 0.6 moles percent on a dry basis of sclareolide having the structure;

##STR32## with the proviso that the sum total of mole percent on a dry basis of sodium ion, potassium ion, magnesium ion and calcium ion is from about 48 mole percent up to about 60 mole percent; and

with the proviso that the sum total of carbonate/bicarbonate/carbonic acid ion species mixture having the formula;

space="preserve" listing-type="equation">[CO.sub.3.sup.= ]+[HCO.sub.3.sup.- ]+H.sub.2 CO.sub.3

taken together with the sum total mole percent on a basis of the phosphate/monobasic phosphate/dry basis of the phosphate/monobasic phosphate/dibasic phosphate species mixture having the formula;

space="preserve" listing-type="equation">[PO.sub.4.sup.= ]+[HPO.sub.4.sup.= ]+[H.sub.2 PO.sub.4.sup.- ]+H.sub.3 PO.sub.4

taken alone or taken further together with at least one of the species tripolyphosphate, pyrophosphate and/or polymetaphosphate is from about 34 mole percent up to about 50 mole percent;

the term "mole percent" being based upon the total moles of cations, anions and free organic acid which is substantially non-ionized in the composition.