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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Sweeteners 956<br />

NAME: Monellin<br />

CATEGORY: Sweetener/ Nutritive additive<br />

FORMULA: Polypeptide chain of approximately 91 amino acids<br />

MOLECULAR MASS: 11,500 daltons<br />

PROPERTIES AND APPEARANCE: Sweet taste (3000 times that of sucrose by weight). Slow onset time; lingering sweet aftertaste (for up<br />

to 1 hour)<br />

FUNCTION IN FOODS: Sweetening agent: up to 3000 times sweeter than sucrose<br />

TECHNOLOGY OF USE IN FOODS: Stable at pH 2 to 10. Sweetness irreversibly lost above 60°C. Unstable to heat. Complete loss of<br />

sweetness below pH 2 when held in solution at room temperature<br />

REFERENCES: Smoley, C. K. (1993) Everything Added to <strong>Food</strong> in the United States. US <strong>Food</strong> and Drug<br />

Administration, CRC Press, Inc.<br />

New and Novel <strong>Food</strong>s; p. 486.<br />

<strong>Food</strong> Chemistry. 2nd edition. (1985) Marcel Dekker, Inc.<br />

Budavari, S. (1996) The Merck Index. 12th edition. Merck & Co.<br />

ANY OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION: Derived from the fruit of the Dioscoreophyllum cumminisii (also known as serendipity berries).<br />

Characteristics similar to thaumatin. Expensive

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