FIELD: food industry.
SUBSTANCE: low-caloric beverage contains water, at least one natural non-caloric sweetener having a residual sweet aftertaste and a bitter-tasting component for attenuation of the residual aftertaste in an amount sufficient to attenuate the non-caloric sweetener residual aftertaste. The bitter-tasting component concentration in the beverage is 125 ppb - 31 ppm of the beverage total weight. The bitter-tasting component contains limonin. The beverage may additionally contain erythrite and D-Tagatose or at least one caloric sweetener while the bitter-tasting component may contain naringin. The non-caloric sweetener is selected from the group containing stevioglycoside, Lo-Han-Go powder, thaumatin, monatin, monellin, brazzein and their combinations. In accordance with the method proposed the non-caloric sweetener having a residual sweet aftertaste is mixed with the bitter-tasting component to produce a mixture; in case of the latter usage in a beverage the bitter-tasting compound is contained in an amount sufficient to attenuate the non-caloric sweetener residual sweet aftertaste. The concentrate for the low-caloric beverage production contains at least one natural non-caloric sweetener having a residual sweet aftertaste and a limonin-containing bitter-tasting component in an amount sufficient to attenuate the non-caloric sweetener residual aftertaste when the concentrate is mixed with the solvent for the beverage preparation. The concentrate may be represented by a syrup and may additionally contain at least one caloric sweetener while the bitter-tasting component may contain naringin.
EFFECT: invention enables attenuation of the low-caloric sweetener residual sweet aftertaste and production of a beverage containing bitterness at an unperceivable level.
20 cl, 1 ex
