Patent ID: 7588793

Claim:
A chewing gum containing a flavoring effective amount of an enhanced fruit flavoring composition, said enhanced fruit flavoring composition comprising: (a) one or more fruit flavoring agents selected from the group consisting of lemon, orange, lime, apricot, grapefruit, banana, cherry, apple, pineapple, grape, strawberry, tutti fruitti, and fruit punch, wherein said fruit flavoring agent is present at about 97.8 to about 99.96% by weight of said enhanced fruit flavoring composition, and, (b) an amount of N-ethyl-p-menthane-3-carboxamide effective to enhance said fruit flavoring agent wherein said N-ethyl-p-menthane-3-carboxamide is present at about 0.04 to about 2.2% by weight of said enhanced fruit flavoring composition, and; wherein said enhanced fruit flavoring composition is present at about 0.8% to about 3.5% by weight of said chewing gum.