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US 6,998,144 · App. 10/206,059 · Granted Feb 14, 2006

Method of improving sweetness delivery of sucralose

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Patent No.
US 6,998,144
App. No.
10/206,059
Granted
Feb 14, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

This invention provides a method of improving the sweetness delivery profile of a sucralose-containing ingestible composition, which comprises incorporating therein DHB at a DHB:sucralose weight ratio of from about 0.01% to about 100%.

Claims (9)

1. A method of improving the sweetness delivery profile of a sucralose-comprising ingestible composition, the method comprising the step of incorporating into said sucralose-comprising ingestible composition a compound that reduces the length of the time period preceding the time period during which sucralose sweetness is perceived, wherein said compound is DHB and is present at a DHB:sucralose weight ratio of from about 0.01% to about 100%.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said DHB:sucralose weight ratio is from about 0.1% to about 50%.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said DHB:sucralose weight ratio is from about 2% to about 10%.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein said ingestible composition comprises a sweetener.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein said sweetener comprises sucralose.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein said sweetener comprises sucralose and a carrier.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein said ingestible composition comprises a composition selected from the group consisting of any solid food product and any semi-solid food product.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein said ingestible composition comprises a beverage.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein said ingestible composition comprises a pharmaceutical composition.

Assignments (7)
PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Sep 21, 2021
From: HEARTLAND CONSUMER PRODUCTS LLC
To: CITY NATIONAL BANK, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 057554/0697 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded May 3, 2021
From: COOPERATIEVE RABOBANK U.A.
To: HEARTLAND CONSUMER PRODUCTS LLC; TC HEARTLAND LLC
Reel/Frame 056113/0471 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded May 3, 2021
From: COOPERATIEVE RABOBANK U.A.
To: HEARTLAND CONSUMER PRODUCTS LLC; TC HEARTLAND LLC
Reel/Frame 056116/0001 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 7, 2018
From: HEARTLAND CONSUMER PRODUCTS LLC; TC HEARTLAND LLC
To: COOPERATIEVE RABOBANK U.A., NEW YORK BRANCH, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 047712/0601 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 2, 2015
From: TC HEARTLAND LLC; HEARTLAND CONSUMER PRODUCTS LLC
To: COOPERATIEVE CENTRALE RAIFFEISEN-BOERENLEENBANK B.A., "RABOBANK NEDERLAND", NEW YORK BRANCH, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 037020/0929 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 29, 2015
From: JOHNSON & JOHNSON CONSUMER INC.
To: HEARTLAND CONSUMER PRODUCTS LLC
Reel/Frame 036912/0452 →
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 27, 2015
From: MCNEIL-PPC, INC.; JOHNSON & JOHNSON CONSUMER INC.
To: JOHNSON & JOHNSON CONSUMER INC.
Reel/Frame 036181/0581 →