Compositions comprising brazzein (or analogs thereof), including sweetener compositions, flavor modifying compositions, sweetened compositions, flavor modified compositions are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of improving the temporal profile, flavor profile and/or taste profile of sweetenable compositions, such as beverages.

There is demand for a novel method for manufacturing a RebD crystallized product. The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a RebD-containing crystallized product, characterized in including: a step for mixing a stevia plant-derived crude product having a total steviol glycoside content of 50-95 mass %, and containing at least RebA and RebD, in a solvent containing ethanol and having a methanol concentration of 1 mg/L or less, and adjusting a crystallization solution; and a step for cooling the crystallization solution under stirring and causing RebD to precipitate.

Novel diterpene glycosides and methods for purifying the same are provided herein. In addition, compositions comprising the novel diterpene glycosides, as well as methods of using the diterpene glycosides are provided.

The present invention pertains to an alcoholic beverage that contains one or more types of steviol glycosides selected from rebaudioside D and rebaudioside M, and has a steviol glycoside content of 0.001-0.5 g/1,000 ml and an alcohol content of 0.5-40.0 v/v %.

A sugar-free soluble tea extract tablet and a method for preparing it that includes the steps of providing a sweetener blend, a natural binder, and a tea extract, in a proportion of five grams of sweater blend and one gram of natural binder for every one gram of tea extract. Then, heating the sweetener blend to melt into a liquid at a temperature ranged between 100 to 300 degrees Celsius, adding the tea extract and the natural binder to the melted sweetener blend to form a mixture, stirring the mixture thoroughly and pouring it into molds for cooling. The sweetener blend includes Erythritol and Monkfruit or stevia sweetener, and the natural binder is an organic gum fiber blend such as organic guar gum, organic gum arabic, organic agave fiber, organic rice hulls, or organic agave syrup.

Various ingredients and compositions are prepared from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni plant. The compositions can be used as bulking agents, and sweeteners in foods, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

Novel steviol glycoside compounds characterized by a first group of four glucopyranose residues attached via the number 13 carbon (C13) of the steviol moiety and a second group of two or three glucopyranose residues attached via the number 19 carbon (C19) of the steviol moiety are described, and exemplified by compounds 1-4. These compounds can be present in a composition with other steviol glycosides (e.g., Reb D and Reb M) to enhance their solubilities. Accordingly, the novel compounds can facilitate the preparation of aqueous compositions having a higher concentration of steviol glycosides. A steviol glycoside composition including one or more of compounds 1-4 can be used as a sweetener composition to sweeten other compositions (sweetenable compositions) such as foods, beverages, medicines, oral hygiene compositions, nutraceuticals, and the like.

The invention describes a sweetener of glycosylated steviol glycosides and a rebaudioside in an aqueous solution for convenience of use in the food and beverage industry.

Provided herein are high potency sweeteners containing at least 95% rebaudioside M generated from Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains engineered to produce high purity rebaudioside M when fermented with sugar cane syrup. In addition, provided are methods of purifying the high potency sweeteners from cleared fermentation broths. Also provided are sugar substitutes containing the high potency sweeteners and methods of making same.

The present invention relates, at least in part to, formulations that have improved caloric profile as well as flavor, taste and/or mouthfeel.