African arrowroot extract will become edible flavor sweet protein is expected to play a role in the field of sugar reduction

Recently, the National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment has publicly solicited opinions on a new variety of food flavors, the African arrowroot extract.

The main component of African arrowroot extract is Thaumatin, a naturally sweetened protein that can be used as a sweetener in most beverages and solid beverages, processed nuts and seeds, baked goods and tabletops.

Improve flavor and taste

Although aspartame, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, steviol glycosides and other sweeteners can replace sucrose and provide sufficient sweetness, they all exhibit metallic taste and taste to varying degrees due to the great difference in sweetness from sucrose.

In 1968, scientists isolated a protein from the peel of the African arrowroot, which was later named Soma sweet, which led to the research on natural sweet protein

The significance of somma sweet is not only to sweeten food, but its most valuable feature is that it can improve the flavor of food and beverages, enhance the taste, reduce the perception threshold of various flavors, and achieve the effect of enhancing and prolonging the flavor

Somma sweet can balance the sour-sweet ratio of the product and mask the bad aftertaste when used in fruit-flavored beverages

In vegetable protein beverages, soma sweet can improve the flavor and create a delicate and smooth taste

Somma sweet is used in milk-containing beverages to enhance the creamy aroma and make the taste more full

The taste is a three-dimensional feeling.

Somatame has been approved for use in most countries as a synergistic sweetener or flavor

Unique properties and high security

At present, domestic regulations only approve the use of thomastin, a sweet protein, as a sweetener.

Unlike other sweet proteins, miracle protein itself has no sweetness, but it can make people taste sweet when tasting acidic foods that are not sweet.

It is reported that Joywell Foods, an American food technology company, received a $6.

Amai Proteins, another Israeli biotech company dedicated to the research and development of miracle protein, uses cloud computing-based protein design (AI-CPD) to recode the amino acid sequence of miracle protein to make it suitable for taste, yield, stability, etc.

Ocean Spray, an American agricultural cooperative, and Amai Proteins, an Israeli biotechnology company, recently developed a low-sugar cranberry juice that uses the miracle protein produced by Amai Proteins to replace sugar, which can reduce sugar by at least 40%

In addition to thomastin and miraculin, the industry has a strong reputation for sweeteners such as Monellin, Curculin, Mabinlin, Brazzein and Pentadin.

Compared with other sweeteners, sweet protein, which belongs to protein and can be completely absorbed and metabolized, is guaranteed in terms of safety.
It improves the flavor of sugar-reduced foods while naturally sweetening, and is an ideal sugar-reducing formula
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With the further improvement of yield and stability, sweet proteins represented by thomastin are expected to show their talents in the field of sugar reduction
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(Kalia)

     "China Food News" (May 3, 2021 06 edition)

(Editor-in-charge: Yang Xiaojing)