Sweetener mixture

• US 4,158,068 A
• Filed: 06/22/1977
• Issued: 06/12/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nutrinova Nutrition Specialties & Food Ingredients GmbH (Celanese Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft (Sanofi )
• Inventors: Von Rymon Lipinski, Gert-Wolfhard, Luck, Erich
• Primary Examiner(s): Jones, Raymond N.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kepplinger, Esther M.
• Application Number:
  US05/808,987
• Time in Patent Office: 720 Days
• Field of Search: 426/548, 426/804
• US Class Current: 426/548
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 27/30 Artificial sweetening agents
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 27/32 containing dipeptides or derivatives
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 426/804 Low calorie, low sodium or hypoallergic

Abstract

A sweetener mixture having an improved saccharose-like taste consisting of acetosulfame and at least one sweetener selected from the group of the aspartyl peptide esters, the sulfamate sweeteners, the sulfimide sweeteners and the dihydrochalcone sweeteners.

Claims

1. A sweetener mixture having an improved saccharose-like taste and consisting of

(a) the potassium salt of 3,4-dihydro-6-methyl-1,2,3-oxathiazine-4-one-2,2-dioxide and

(b) a further sweetener selected from the group consisting of

(i) aspartyl phenyl-alanine methyl ester,

(ii) the sodium salt of cyclohexyl sulfamic acid,

(iii) the sodium salt of saccharin, and

(iv) neohesperidin-dihydrochalcone,

wherein the ratio by weight of (a) to (b) in such a mixture is from 1:

10 to 10;

1 for sweetener (b) (i), 3;

1 to 1;

12 for sweetener (b) (ii), 1;

2 to 10;

1 for sweetener (b) (iii), and 5;

1 to 20;

1 for sweetener (b) (iv).

2. A sweetener mixture as in claim 1 wherein said further sweetener is (b) (i) and wherein the ratio by weight of (a) to (b) (i) in such a mixture is from 2:

5 to 5;

2.

3. A sweetener mixture as in claim 1 wherein said further sweetener is (b) (ii) and wherein the ratio by weight of (a) to (b) (ii) in such a mixture is from 1:

2 to 1;

12.

4. A sweetener mixture as in claim 1 wherein said further sweetener is (b) (iii) and wherein the ratio by weight of (a) to (b) (iii) in such a mixture is from 1:

1 to 8;

1.

5. A sweetener mixture as in claim 1 wherein said further sweetener is (b) (iv) and wherein the ratio by weight of (a) to (b) (iv) in such a mixture is from 8:

1 to 15;

1.