Patent ID: 7842324

Claim:
A method for increasing the sweet taste of a comestible or medicinal product comprising: (a) providing at least one comestible or medicinal product, or at least one precursor thereof, and (b) combining the at least one comestible or medicinal product or at least one precursor thereof with at least a sweet flavor modulating amount of at least one bi-aromatic amide compound, or one or more comestibly acceptable salts thereof, so as to form a modified comestible or medicinal product; wherein the bis-aromatic amide compound has the structure: wherein Ar 1 and Ar 2 are independently selected from monocyclic aryl, fused bicyclic aryl, monocyclic heteroaryl, or fused bicyclic heteroaryl rings; (ii) m is selected from the integers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5; (iii) m′ is selected from the integers 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4; (iv) each R 1 and R 2 is independently selected from the group consisting of an OH, NH 2 , NO 2 , SH, SO 3 H, PO 3 H, halogen, and a C 1 -C 6 organic radical; (v) L is a carbon atom; (vi) R 3 is hydrogen, oxygen, hydroxy, halogen, or a C 1 -C 6 organic radical; (vii) R 4 is hydrogen, oxygen, hydroxy, halogen, or a C 1 -C 6 organic radical; (viii) R 5 is a C 1 -C 14 organic radical comprising a normal or branched alkyl or cycloalkyl, wherein the normal or branched alkyl or cycloalkyl optionally comprises one to four substituents independently selected from OH, NH 2 , NO 2 , SH, SO 3 H, PO 3 H, halogen, and a C 1 -C 6 organic radical; or a comestibly acceptable salt thereof.