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• the invention pertains to low or non-caloric sweetener compositions based on glycosides derived from natural sources such as Stevia rebaudiana (n Stevia”) and monk fruit (also known as Luo Han Guo), as well as foods and beverages sweetened with such compositions.
• Natural caloric sweeteners such as sucrose, glucose, and fructose, possess desirable taste characteristics, but they add to the caloric content of products. Therefore, there is great consumer interest in low or non-caloric sweeteners that are considered as healthier alternatives.
• Non-caloric natural and synthetic hig h-potency sweeteners are known, but they most often possess flavor profiles that are not as desirable to consumers as natural caloric sweeteners. Thus, it is desirable to develop improved non-caloric sweeteners that can be substituted for sugar and that have a more desirable taste profile.
• Stevia rebaudiana The species Stevia rebaudiana (“Stevia") is the source of certain naturally occurring sweet steviol glycosides.
• sweet steviol glycosides that may be extracted from Stevia include the six rebaudiosides (i.e. , rebaudiosides A to F), stevioside (the predominant glycoside in extracts from wild type Stevia), steviolbioside, rubusoside, and dulcosides.
• monk fruit extract may not have a temporal profile which makes it completely acceptable as a non-caloric replacement for caloric sweeteners (sugars) in food and beverage compositions.
• One aspect of the invention provides a sweetener composition comprised of: a) monk fruit extract comprising mogroside V;
• the monk fruit extract, rebaudioside A and rebaudioside B are present in a weight ratio of monk fruit extract: (rebaudioside A + rebaudioside B) of 51 :49 to 99 : 1;
• the mogroside V and rebaudioside A are present in a weight ratio of from 41 : 59 to
• the rebaudioside B is present in an amount effective to improve the taste of the sweetener composition.
• Another aspect of the invention provides a sweetener composition comprised of: a) monk fruit extract comprising 45 to 55 weight % mogroside V; b) rebaudioside A; and
• the monk fruit extract, rebaudioside A and rebaudioside B are present in a weight ratio of monk fruit extract: (rebaudioside A + rebaudioside B) of 55 :45 to 80: 20;
• the mogroside V and rebaudioside A are present in a weight ratio of from 45 : 55 to 65 : 35 mogroside V: rebaudioside A;
• the rebaudioside B is present in an amount of at least 5 (e.g ., 5 to 12) weight %, based on the total weight of a), b), c) and any additional steviol glycosides present (in addition to rebaudioside A and rebaudioside B) .
• Yet another aspect of the invention provides a sweetener composition comprised of:
• the invention in another aspect provides a food or beverage composition comprising at least one food or beverage ingredient and one of the above-mentioned sweetener compositions.
• Such food and beverage compositions may be prepared by combining one or more food or beverage ingredients with an amount of one of the above- mentioned sweetener compositions effective to impart a sweeter taste to the one or more food or beverage ingredients.
• a method of making a sweetener composition is also provided in another aspect of the invention, wherein the method comprises combining a monk fruit extract with an amount of rebaudioside A and an amount of rebaudioside B effective to improve the sweetness taste quality of the monk fruit extract.
• a monk fruit extract containing mogroside V constitutes one component of the sweetener compositions of the present invention.
• Methods of obtaining such monk fruit extracts are well known in the art and any of such methods may be utilized in order to prepare the monk fruit extract to be employed in the present sweetener compositions. Suitable preparation methods are described, for example, in US Patent Publication 2011/0021456.
• the monk fruit extract Prior to use in the sweetener compositions of the present invention, the monk fruit extract may be subjected to various purification procedures in order to reduce or eliminate off-flavors, off-colors and/or off-tastes that might otherwise be present.
• the monk fruit extract is in dry, powdered form, but in alternative embodiments the monk fruit extract may be in solution form (e.g., as a concentrated aqueous solution or syrup). It will generally be desirable to employ a monk fruit extract having a relatively high mogroside V content, e.g., at least 20, at least 25, at least 30, at least 35, at least 40 or at least 45 weight % mogroside V (on a dry solids basis) .
• the monk fruit extract may be essentially pure (i.e., at least 95 weight % pure) mogroside V, but because the cost of producing high purity mogroside V may be excessive from a commercial point of view typically it will be economically advantageous to use a monk fruit extract containing not more than 95, not more than 90, not more than 85, not more than 80, not more than 75, not more than 70 or not more than 65 weight % mogroside V (on a dry solids basis).
• the monk fruit extract may have a mogroside V content of 45 to 55 weight %.
• the monk fruit extract may contain other constituents, in particular other terpene glycosides such as mogroside II-IV and VI, 11-oxo-mogroside V, grosmomoside I, and siamenoside I as well as protein fragments, melanoidins and flavonoids.
• the sweetener composition may be comprised of at least 45, at least 51, at least 53, or at least 55 weight percent (on a dry solids basis) monk fruit extract.
• Monk fruit extracts available from commercial sources may be used in the present invention.
• the monk fruit extracts sold under the brand names PUREFRUIT (by Tate & Lyle) and FRUIT-SWEETNESS (by BioVittoria) are generally suitable for use.
• Rebaudioside A is one of the constituents of Stevia and may be isolated from Stevia extracts using known techniques. Rebaudioside A is also available in purified form from various commercial sources.
• the rebaudioside A component of the sweetener composition of the present invention may be introduced into the composition in pure or essentially pure (i.e., at least 95 weight % pure) form or in admixture with other constituents, provided such other constituents do not detract from the taste quality and other attributes of the sweetener composition to an unacceptable degree.
• rebaudioside B component of the present sweetener compositions can be obtained in various ways.
• rebaudioside B can be isolated from plant extracts by chromatography, precipitation, and/or crystallization.
• Rebaudioside B may also be prepared by treating rebaudioside A with various hydroxides of mono, di, and trivalent cations under appropriate temperature and pH conditions.
• the conversion to rebaudioside B may be carried out to completion or near completion and essentially pure rebaudioside B isolated by chromatography, precipitation, selective crystallization or other such purification technique.
• Rebaudioside B can also be obtained in a similar manner by treating rebaudioside D with the same hydroxide-containing compounds mentioned above in connection with the conversion of rebaudioside A to rebaudioside B.
• Rebaudioside B can also be produced enzymatically from rebaudioside A or D. Such methods for producing rebaudioside B are all known in the art.
• Rebaudioside B is also available from various commercial sources.
• the rebaudioside B to be combined with the other components of the sweetener composition may be essentially pure (e.g., at least 95 weight % pure) or be supplied as an admixture with other constituents (e.g., rebaudioside A) provided such other constituents do not detrimentally affect the taste quality of the sweetener composition to an unacceptable extent.
• the sweetener composition may be comprised of at least 5, at least 10, at least 15, at least 20, or at least 25 weight percent (on a dry solids basis) rebaudioside A. In other embodiments, the sweetener composition does not contain more than 45, not more than 40, or not more than 35 weight percent (on a dry solids basis) rebaudioside A. The aforementioned weight percentages are based on the total weight of monk fruit extract, rebaudioside A and rebaudioside B.
• mogroside V and rebaudioside A may be present in a weight ratio of from 41 : 59 to 99 : 1 mogroside V: rebaudioside A. In other embodiments of the invention, such weight ratio may be within any of the following ranges: 41 : 59 to 85 : 15; 41 : 59 to 75 : 25; or 45 : 55 to 65 : 35.
• the monk fruit extract, rebaudioside A and rebaudioside B components of the sweetener composition may be present in amounts such that the weight ratio of monk fruit extract: (rebaudioside A + rebaudioside B) is in the range of 51 :49 to 99: 1. In other embodiments of the invention, such weight ratio may be within any of the following ranges: 51 :49 to 90: 10; 55 :45 to 80 : 20; or 60 :40 to 75 : 25.
• rebaudioside B helps to improve the taste of the sweetener composition as compared to the taste of an analogous composition that does not contain any rebaudioside B. That is, for reasons not fully understood, the presence of rebaudioside B in such a composition serves to enhance the acceptability of the composition as a sweetener and in particular tends to reduce the perceived bitterness of the composition.
• an amount of rebaudioside B is present in combination with a composition comprised of monk fruit extract and rebaudioside A which is effective to improve the taste of the composition.
• the threshold amount of rebaudioside B needed to achieve a perceived improvement in taste will vary somewhat depending upon the form in which the composition is consumed (e.g., whether the sweetener composition is consumed as a food or beverage, with the threshold amount also being dependent upon the identity and nature of other ingredients of the food or beverage) and is also somewhat subjective (since individuals may have different perceptions or preferences with respect to sweetened compositions).
• the composition contains stevioside, in addition to the monk fruit extract and rebaudioside A, somewhat more rebaudioside B may be needed to achieve the desired level of taste improvement as compared to the amount of rebaudioside B needed to impart a comparable taste acceptability to an analogous composition which does not contain stevioside.
• rebaudioside B typically at least 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 weight % rebaudioside B (expressed on a dry solids basis and calculated as a percentage of the total weight of monk fruit extract, rebaudioside A, rebaudioside B and any steviol glycosides other than rebaudioside A and rebaudioside B, such as stevioside) is present in the sweetener composition of the present invention.
• the amount of rebaudioside B does not exceed 20, 18, 16, 14 or 12 weight % (on a dry solids basis and calculated as a percentage of the total weight of monk fruit extract, rebaudioside A, rebaudioside B and any steviol glycosides other than rebaudioside A and rebaudioside B).
• the rebaudioside B content of the sweetener composition is 5 to 15 weight % or 6 to 12 weight % (on a dry solids basis and calculated as a percentage of the total weight of monk fruit extract, rebaudioside A, rebaudioside B and any steviol glycosides other than rebaudioside A and rebaudioside B).
• the sweetener composition contains little or no stevioside (e.g., less than 20, less than 15, less than 10, or less than 5 weight % stevioside, on a dry solids basis and calculated as a percentage of the total weight of monk fruit extract, rebaudioside A, rebaudioside B and any steviol glycosides other than rebaudioside A and rebaudioside B).
• little or no stevioside e.g., less than 20, less than 15, less than 10, or less than 5 weight % stevioside, on a dry solids basis and calculated as a percentage of the total weight of monk fruit extract, rebaudioside A, rebaudioside B and any steviol glycosides other than rebaudioside A and rebaudioside B).
• Sweetener compositions in accordance with the invention may be processed using known methods to modify particle size and physical form. Methods such as
• the sweetener composition may be in solid form, such as a powder, granules, beads, tablets, or the like.
• the sweetener composition may also be provided in liquid forms, such as aqueous solutions, syrups or emulsions, optionally containing one or more preservatives and/or processing aids, for ease of use in specific applications.
• the sweetener compositions of the present invention may be co-processed with bulking agents such as a bulk sweetener, a lower glycemic carbohydrate, a fiber, a hydrocolloid and the like or combinations thereof to deliver products with controlled sweetness, dosing, potency and handling properties.
• bulking agents such as a bulk sweetener, a lower glycemic carbohydrate, a fiber, a hydrocolloid and the like or combinations thereof to deliver products with controlled sweetness, dosing, potency and handling properties.
• the sweetener composition of the present invention may be incorporated into any type of food or beverage composition.
• Non-limiting examples of such food and beverage compositions include baked goods, soups, sauces, processed meats, canned fruits, canned vegetables, dairy products, frozen confections, carbonated soft drinks, sports drinks, ready to drink teas, dairy drinks, alcoholic beverages, energy drinks, flavored waters, vitamin drinks, fruit drinks, fruit juices, powdered soft drinks, candy, confections, chewing gum, nutraceutical products and the like.
• the sweetener composition may also be used in products such as medicines, pharmaceutical products and tobacco products.
• the sweetener composition of the present invention may, for example, be utilized as an ingredient or component of a product, wherein the product is a food product, a beverage product, a pharmaceutical product, a nutraceutical product, a sports product, a tobacco product or a cosmetic product.
• Illustrative, non-limiting examples of food products comprising a sweetener composition in accordance with the present invention may be selected from the group consisting of confectionary products, dessert products, cereal products, baked goods, frozen dairy products, meats, dairy products, condiments, snack bars, soups, dressings, mixes, prepared foods, baby foods, diet preparations, syrups, food coatings, dried fruits, sauces, gravies, jams/jellies, spreads, batters, breadings, spice mixes, frostings, and coatings.
• beverage products comprising a sweetener composition in accordance with the present invention may be selected from the group consisting of concentrated beverage mixes, carbonated beverages, non-carbonated beverages, fruit-flavored beverages, fruit-juices, teas, milk, coffees, nectars, powdered soft drinks, liquid concentrates, milk drinks, smoothies, alcoholic beverages, flavored waters and combinations thereof.
• the sweetener composition is included in an amount effective to impart the desired amount of sweetness to the sweetened product.
• the product may contain one or more additional sweeteners, e.g., a caloric sweetener such as sugar or another high intensity sweetener (either natural or synthetic) or may be free of any sweetening component other than the sweetener composition of the present invention.
• additional sweeteners e.g., a caloric sweetener such as sugar or another high intensity sweetener (either natural or synthetic) or may be free of any sweetening component other than the sweetener composition of the present invention.
• the sweetener compositions described herein may also find utility as taste enhancers, wherein they are included in a food or beverage at a concentration below the threshold where they impart a sweet taste to the product but in sufficient amount that they improve, modify or enhance the taste of the product.
• the sweetener composition of the invention is present in the foodstuff or beverage at a concentration of at least 50, at least 200, at least 500, at least 1000, at least 1500 or at least 2000 ppm (based on weight).
• Sweetener Blends 1-3 were prepared by incorporating different levels of
• rebaudioside B (80% purity, containing a minor amount of rebaudioside A) into mixtures of a monk fruit extract and a Stevia product, where the monk fruit extract and Stevia product are blended in various proportions.
• the monk fruit extract was PUREFRUITTM Select, available from Tate & Lyle, which contained 50 weight % mogroside V.
• the Stevia product was a commercially available product containing approximately 71 weight % rebaudioside A and 25 weight % stevioside.
• the mogroside V, rebaudioside A, stevioside and rebaudioside B content (in weight %) of each of Sweetener Blends 1-3 is shown in the following Table 1. Table 1.
• Sweetener Blends 1-3 were compared to PUREFRUIT Plus, sold by Tate & Lyle, by expert tasters for sweetness intensity, bitterness, and overall acceptability.
• PUREFRUITTM Plus is a blend of high potency sweeteners derived from extracts of monk fruit and Stevia, containing monk fruit extract, rebaudioside A, stevioside and other steviol glycosides, but no rebaudioside B.
• Sweetener Blend 4 was prepared by combining 75 parts by weight of PUREFRUITTM Select [a Luo Han Guo (monk fruit) extract commercially available from Tate & Lyle containing 50 weight % mogroside V, the balance being predominantly other mogrosides], 19.5 parts by weight rebaudioside A, and 5.5 parts by weight rebaudioside B. Sweetener Blend 4 contained 37.5 weight % mogroside V, 19.5 weight % rebaudioside A, and 5.5 weight % rebaudioside B.
• the weight ratio of rebaudioside A to rebaudioside B was 78: 22, the weight ratio of mogroside V to rebaudioside A was 65.8 : 34.2, the weight ratio of monk fruit extract: (rebaudioside A + rebaudioside B) was 75: 25, and the weight ratio of mogroside V to rebaudioside B was 87.2: 12.8.
• Sweetener Blend 5 was prepared by combining 60 parts by weight PUREFRUITTM
• Sweetener Blend 5 contained 30 weight % mogroside V, 31.2 weight %
• rebaudioside A rebaudioside A
• 8.8 weight % rebaudioside B weight ratio of rebaudioside A to rebaudioside B was 78: 22
• the weight ratio of mogroside V to rebaudioside A was 49 : 51
• the weight ratio of monk fruit extract: (rebaudioside A + rebaudioside B) was 60 :40
• the weight ratio of mogroside V to rebaudioside B was 77.3 : 22.7.
• Sweetener Blend 5 was significantly preferred over that of PUREFRUITTM Plus, with the taste of Sweetener Blend 4 being somewhat preferred over that of PUREFRUITTM Plus.
• This result was unexpected as previous evaluations of sweeteners based on blends of monk fruit extracts and Stevia extracts had indicated that sweetener compositions comprising mogroside V and a rebaudioside component with weight ratios of between 1 : 1 and 6: 1 mogroside
• V rebaudioside provided the best sweetness quality. Additional testing showed that
• Sweetener Blend 5 was significantly preferred as a sweetener over PUREFRUITTM Plus in various beverage compositions.
• Sweetener Blend 5 was further evaluated in a lemon lime carbonated soft drink and tested for preference against a corresponding product sweetened only with

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