Patent ID: 8932661
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: A23L

Abstract:
1. A salty taste enhancer that comprises an enzymatic decomposition product of an animal protein and an enzymatic decomposition product of a plant protein, wherein: (i) a combination of the enzymatic decomposition product of the animal protein and the enzymatic decomposition product of the plant protein in the salty taste enhancer is: (ii) the enzymatic decomposition product of the animal protein and the enzymatic decomposition product of the plant protein have an average peptide chain length from 2 to 3 amino acids when determined by a TNBS method, (iii) an amino nitrogen content of the enzymatic decomposition product of the animal protein is 1.76% or more, and an amino nitrogen content of the enzymatic decomposition product of the plant protein is 2.07% or more, (iv) the salty taste enhancer comprises the enzymatic decomposition product of the animal protein and the enzymatic decomposition product of the plant protein at a ratio of between 1:10 and 10:1, and (v) the salty taste enhancer, which comprises the combination of the enzymatic decomposition product of the animal protein and the enzymatic decomposition product of the plant protein in (i) above, has a higher salty taste enhancing effect than a salty taste enhancing effect of a single component of either the enzymatic decomposition product of the animal protein alone as the enzymatic decomposition product or the enzymatic decomposition product of the plant protein alone as the enzymatic decomposition product, when the single component contains a same amount of the enzymatic decomposition product as a total amount of the enzymatic decomposition products in the salty taste enhancer.