| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a sweetening composition capable of giving a good sweet taste to an orally taken product, such as a food product, a pharmaceutical, or a quasi-drug, by improving such a defect of a sweetening agent causing high sweetness and a sugar alcohol that their sweet aftertaste and full-bodied feelings (full-flavored feelings) are insufficient, and to provide a food product containing the sweetening composition as a sweetening agent and improved in quality of the sweet taste. <P>SOLUTION: The sweetening composition contains L-arabinose and the sweetening agent with the high sweetness and/or the sugar alcohol. A carbonated drink, fruit drink, coffee, refreshing drink, milk drink, tea-based drink, desert, and cake are exemplified as the food products which contain the sweetening composition. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO |
