REDUCED CALORIE SWEETENERS AND CONSUMABLE ITEMS

摘要

Reduced calorie consumable items and sweeteners that may be used in producing those items are described. Those reduced calorie consumable items have taste characteristics similar to those of full calorie items. Such reduced calorie consumables include a combination of sweeteners that provides a taste similar to natural sugars and alleviates many of the negative attributes commonly associated with other reduced calorie consumables. The sweetener combination includes the high potency sweeteners aspartame and acesulfame potassium used with one or more natural sweeteners. Natural sweeteners include fructose and an extract derived from plants of the species Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni, substantially purified in the component rebaudioside A.