Aconitic acid, gluconic acid and/or succinic acid taken alone or further together with sclareolide in enhancing the organoleptic properties of foodstuffs

• US 5,366,747 A
• Filed: 12/17/1993
• Issued: 11/22/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Flavors & Fragrances Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Flavors & Fragrances Incorporated
• Inventors: Buckholz, Lawrence L. Jr., Scharpf, Lewis G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Golian, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US08/168,338
• Time in Patent Office: 340 Days
• Field of Search: 426/536, 426/650
• US Class Current: 426/536
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 23/00 Soups; Sauces soya sauce A23L27/50; salad dressings, mayonnaise or ketchup A23L27/60; Preparation or treatment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 27/2052 having oxygen or sulfur as the only hetero atoms
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 27/82 Acid flavourants
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 29/035 containing oxygen as heteroatom gums A23L29/25; sugar or sugar alcohols A23L29/30
• CPC Class Codes: C07C 55/10 Succinic acid
• CPC Class Codes: C07C 57/02 with only carbon-to-carbon double bonds as unsaturation
• CPC Class Codes: C07C 59/245 containing hydroxy or O-metal groups

Abstract

Described is the use of one or more of the acids: aconitic acid, gluconic acid and/or succinic acid taken alone or further together with sclareolide in augmenting or enhancing the organoleptic properites of foodstuffs particularly with respect to imparting a umami effect and/or imparting of mouthfeel and fullness to the flavor of foodstuffs in the absence of amino acids except sulfur-bearing amino acids, salts thereof, pyrrolidone carboxylic acid, salts thereof and nucleotides.

Claims

1. A process for imparting, augmenting or enhancing the umami taste and mouthfeel of a meaty-flavored foodstuff consisting of adding to said foodstuff from 0.001% up to 0.05% of an umami taste and mouthfeel-imparting, augmenting or enhancing quantity of a mixture of succinic acid having the structure:

##STR7## or a salt thereof and sclareolide having the structure;

##STR8## with the weight ratio of sclareolide;

succinic acid or salt thereof being from 0.5;

1.5 up to 1.5;

0.5, in the absence of;

(i) amino acids except sulfur-bearing amino acids;

(ii) salts of amino acids except sulfur-bearing amino acids;

(iii) pyrollidone carboxylic acid;

(iv) salts of pyrollidone carboxylic acid; and

(v) nucleotides.

2. The process of claim 1 wherein the succinic acid or salt thereof is crystalline succinic acid.