Flavor-enhancing agents for high-intensity sweeteners, methods for producing flavor-enhancing agents for high-intensity sweeteners, methods for improving the taste of food products containing high-intensity sweeteners, methods for producing food products containing high-intensity sweeteners and high-intensity sweetener preparations.

Abstract

The invention relates to a flavor-enhancing agent for use in high-intensity sweeteners and a method for the manufacture of such agent, a method for the enhancement of the flavor of a food product, a method for the manufacture of a food product containing a high-intensity sweetener, and a high-intensity sweetener preparation. The flavor-enhancing agent for use in high-intensity sweeteners, the flavor-enhancing agent, has a carotenoid breakdown product as its active ingredient. The improving agent can be prepared by a production method involving the oxidative treatment of carotenoids in oils and fats to obtain carotenoid degradation products. Better carotenoid degradation products are obtained by the degradation of one or more selected substances from the group including carotenoids and xanthophylls. Flavor enhancers are appropriately used as components of food products, VV, to improve the taste of, in addition to other products, food products containing high-intensity sweeteners.