Alternative Sweet and Supersweet Principles
Natural Sweeteners and Plants
Page
%P
-
Chapter
Osladin, Polypodoside A, B and C (Steroidal Saponins)
Initially, the super sweet characteristics of the rhizome of a widely distributed fern (Polypodium vulgare L.) was reported to be due to presence of glycyrrhizin in 1885 by Guignet [1]. However, after lapse of mo...
-
Chapter
Eco-Physiological Differences Between Sacchariferous Sweet (SS) and Non Sacchariferous Super Sweet (NSSS) Plants and Principles
It is imperative to mention here that SS and NSSS plants neither differ in the basic biochemical routes leading to carbohydrate, protein and fat metabolism nor in the first product of photosynthesis e.g. PGA (C3)...
-
Chapter
Monatin: (Super Sweet Amino Acid)
Intensive search on sweetness of natural amino acids started after attaining success in synthesising artificial health friendly super sweet aspartame [1]. Consequently, the sweet natural amino acids identified...
-
Chapter
Hernandulcin (Sesquiterpene)
Hernandulcin is a bisabolane type of sesquiterpene which is 1000 times sweeter than sucrose and found in Lippia dulcis Trevir (Verbanaceae). This is a perennial woody herb and native of southern and central Ameri...
-
Chapter
Dihydrochalcones Flavonoid Super Sweet Principles
For the first time the attempts made in 1963 accompanied with that of 1969 by Horowitz and Gentili [1, 2] succeeded in isolating sweet dihydrochalcones such as naringin, neohesperidin and hesperidin from bitte...
-
Chapter
Saccharide Sweet (SS) Principles, Classification and Structural and Functional Details of SS Sweeteners and Plants
Saccharides, the simplest forms of carbohydrates, consist of single sugar units with five or six carbon atoms in a ring form. They are commonly called “sugars”or “sweeteners” because they taste sweet. Monosacchar...
-
Chapter
Perillartine (Mono-terpenoid)
Perillartine is a monoterpene volatile oil obtained from leaves, seeds and flowering tops of plant Perilla frutescens (L.) Britton Perillartine, the a-syn-oxime of perillaldehyde, has been known to be highly swee...
-
Chapter
Super Sweet and Taste Modifier Proteins
It has been found that super sweet (SS) proteins are thousands times sweeter than sucrose, required in a very small amount to sweeten the food materials and provide little or zero calories to body. These prote...
-
Chapter
Triterpenoids
Triterpenoids are potential antibiotic substances present in plants Kingdome. Some of them have very sweet taste ranging between 30 and 400 times sweeter than sucrose. Four such natural important non saccharid...
-
Chapter
Commercial Production of Natural NSSS Sweeteners: A Concise Sketch
More than 100 vegetal non saccharide super Sweet (NSSS) principles are known but not much attention has been paid on their commercial production due to many social and political reasons besides lack of GRAS ce...
-
Chapter
Introduction
Man is known for his sweet tooth and Craves for sweeteners in his diet from time immemorial. The neurotransmitters in the brain are pivotal organelle which decides our attitude and mood or how we feel. Food af...
-
Chapter
Molecular Basis of Sweetness, Recent Concepts, an Ideal Sweetener and Saccharide and Non-saccharide Sweet Principles Qualifying It
Understanding of the sweetness of an organic or inorganic substance is complex process and it is ingrained with the intricacies of psychological perception, molecular structure, chemical nature and environment...
-
Chapter
Phyllodulcin (Dihydroisocoumarin)
Phyllodulcin is a dihydroiso coumarin NSSS Sweetener, firstly, isolated in 1916 by Asahina and Ueno [1] from Hydrangea macrophylla seringe var. thumbaerg. It is also found in Hydrangea serrata [2] and its sweetne...
-
Chapter
Non Saccharide Super Sweet Principles, Their General Characteristics, Outline of Synthesis, Classification, Ecological Significance and Eco-Friendly Adherence
Plants produce a diverse group of large number of organic compounds that appear to have no direct role in their growth and development. These compounds are called as secondary metabolites, secondary products, ...
-
Chapter
Steviosides (Diterpenoids)
Diterpenoids are 20 carbon terpenes (four C5 units) belong to secondary metabolites, associated with defense activities in plants. Some of the diterpenoids are super sweet in taste with negligible or zero calo...
-
Chapter
Vegetal Taste Modifiers
There are some vegetal principles which modify the taste to sour, cause reduction in sweetness, induction of sweetness and flavor in the non sweet food. Few among those, induce sweetness in drinking water i.e....
-
Chapter
Molecular Approaches for the Improvement of Non Sacchariferous Super Sweet (NSSS) Plants
Only during last century, the use of zero/very low calorie natural non saccharide super sweet (NSSS) principles cropped up in the mind of human being after visualizing serious health disorders cause by most po...
-
Book
-
Chapter
Search of Sweeteners, Their General Classification, Synthesis, and Saccharide Sweeteners Plant–Animal Interphases
The discovery of first known sweetener called honey, was done by man while roaming forest in search of food. Honey was found to be made by bees from the collection of flowers nectar. The main constituents of h...
