Sweetener comprising a stevia-derived sweet substance

• US 20070003679A1
• Filed: 03/01/2006
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SATO Pharmaceutical Company Limited
• Original Assignee: SATO Pharmaceutical Company Limited
• Inventors: Shimizu, Takehiro, Shimizu, Toshihito, Tatara, Mitsutoshi
• Application Number:
  US11/364,995
• Publication Number:
  US 20070003679A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 426/548
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 27/36 Terpene glycosides
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2002/00 Food compositions, function of food ingredients or processes for food or foodstuffs
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/262 Stevioside
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/5114 Dextrins, maltodextrins

Abstract

A sweetener containing a Stevia-derived sweet substance is provided that, while containing cyclodextrin only in small amounts, can mask the bitter taste inherent in the Stevia-derived sweet substance.

Cyclodextrin with a particle size of less than or equal to 30 μm is blended into the Stevia-derived sweet substance at 0.5 to 20 mass % with respect to the mass of the Stevia-derived sweet substance.

Claims

1. A sweetener containing a Stevia-derived sweet substance, comprising:

a Stevia-derived sweet substance; and

from 0.5 to 20 mass %, with respect to the mass of the Stevia-derived sweet substance, cyclodextrin with an average particle size of less than or equal to 30 μ

m.

2. The sweetener according to claim 1, wherein the particle size of the cyclodextrin is less than or equal to 10 μ

m.

3. The sweetener according to claim 1, wherein the particle size of the cyclodextrin is less than or equal to 5 μ

m.

4. The sweetener according to claim 1, comprising 0.5 to 10 mass % cyclodextrin with respect to the mass of the Stevia-derived sweet substance.

5. The sweetener according to claim 1, comprising 0.5 to 5 mass % cyclodextrin with respect to the mass of the Stevia-derived sweet substance.

6. The sweetener according to claim 1, comprising 0.5 to 10 mass %, with respect to the mass of the Stevia-derived sweet substance, cyclodextrin with an average particle size of less than or equal to 10 μ

m.

7. The sweetener according to claim 1, comprising 0.5 to 5 mass %, with respect to the mass of the Stevia-derived sweet substance, cyclodextrin with an average particle size of less than or equal to 5 μ

m.

8. The sweetener according to claim 1, wherein the Stevia-derived sweet substance is a Stevia-derived sweet substance that has been subjected to an enzymatic treatment.

9. The sweetener according to claim 1, wherein the Stevia-derived sweet substance is rebaudioside A.

10. The sweetener according to claim 1, further comprising a sweet substance other than the Stevia-derived sweet substance.

11. A method of producing a sweetener that contains a Stevia-derived sweet substance, comprising the step of:

mixing a Stevia-derived sweet substance with from 0.5 to 20 mass %, with respect to the mass of the Stevia-derived sweet substance, cyclodextrin with an average particle size of less than or equal to 30 μ

m.

12. A method of producing a sweetener that contains a Stevia-derived sweet substance, comprising the steps of:

kneading a Stevia-derived sweet substance with from 0.5 to 20 mass %, with respect to the mass of the Stevia-derived sweet substance, of cyclodextrin with an average particle size of less than or equal to 30 μ

m, in the presence of wetting agent; and

drying the resulting mixture.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the wetting agent is water and/or ethanol.