AGENT FOR IMPROVING TASTE OF HIGH-DEGREE SWEETENER AND ITS USAGE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an agent for improving taste of high-degree sweetener, a method for improving taste of high-degree sweetener and a high-degree sweetener component with which taste can be improved by reducing foreign taste or bitterness provided for a high-degree sweetener. SOLUTION: The foreign taste or bitterness provided for the high-degree sweetener is effectively reduced by adding nigerooligosaccharide as a taste improving agent to drink or food containing the high-degree sweetener. Preferably, >=0.5 pts.wt. of the nigerooligosaccharide is added to various kinds of high-degree sweeteners corresponding to 100 pts.wt. of sugar and in the case of single nigerose, >=0.1 pts.wt. of nigerose is added to the various kinds of high-degree sweeteners corresponding to 100 pts.wt. of sugar. This high-degree sweetener component contains the taste improving agent, in which the nigerooligosaccharide is contained as an effective component, and the high- degree sweetener.