Patents Assigned to Suntory Holdings Limited
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Publication number: 20220201955Abstract: The present invention provides a stevia plant having a low ability to form flower buds as compared with the wild type stevia species. The present invention also provides a method of producing such a stevia plant having a low ability to form flower buds, and an extract or a steviol glycoside purified product obtainable from such a plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Tadayoshi HIRAI, Kazunari IWAKI, Kentaro OCHIAI
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Publication number: 20220202047Abstract: A method for producing a beverage including adding a herb spice treated product to a beverage, or in at least any one of the steps for producing a beverage, wherein the herb spice treated product is obtained by treating a liquid containing a herbal spice in a tightly closed container under the conditions of a temperature of 100° C. or higher and 140° C. or lower, and a pressure of 0.01 MPa or more and 0.46 MPa or less. According to the present invention, flavor ingredients can be more conveniently extracted from herbal spices, so that a new taste can be provided as a luxurious product.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: Suntory Holdings LimitedInventor: Takako Inui
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Publication number: 20220192233Abstract: A nonalcoholic beer-taste beverage wherein the content of succinic acid is from 5 to 24 ppm. According to the present invention, a beer-taste beverage with a new taste having an excellent stimulating taste can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: Suntory Holdings LimitedInventors: Yohei Fujita, Yuichi Kato
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Publication number: 20220183313Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a catechin-containing beverage having reduced bitterness, a production method thereof, and a method of reducing the bitterness of a catechin-containing beverage. The present invention relates to, for example, a catechin-containing beverage containing one or more catechins; and ethyl glycoside, wherein a weight ratio of the ethyl glycoside to the catechins (ethyl glycoside/catechins) is 0.5 to 35.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Koichi Nakahara, Masahide Uemura, Takaaki Yoshii
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Publication number: 20220183338Abstract: The present, invention aims to provide a protein-containing oral composition in which the unpleasant flavor of proteins is reduced, and a method of improving the flavor of a protein-containing oral composition which can reduce the unpleasant flavor of proteins. The present invention relates to a protein-containing oral composition containing a protein and hydroxypropyl cellulose at a ratio by weight of the hydroxypropyl cellulose to the protein (hydroxypropyl cellulose/protein) of 0.020 to 0.50, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Kyoko Hasebe, Noriko Matsui
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Publication number: 20220183314Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an aromatizing material having excellent floral aroma. The tea aroma composition comprises linalool, geraniol, and 2-methylbutanal, and has a weight ratio of 2-methylbutanal content to total linalool and geraniol content which is adjusted to be in the range of from 0.010 to 0.215.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Daisaku Yonezawa, Makoto Otsuka, Takashi Mukai, Takeshi Nakajima, Keita Kikuchi, Yuji Hirayama, Taisuke Osanai, Taishu Hamaba
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Publication number: 20220186240Abstract: Provided is: a transgenic plant that has a modified flower color; a self- or cross-fertilized descendant of the transgenic plant; or a propagule, a portion of a plant body, tissue, or cells from the transgenic plant or the self- or cross-fertilized descendant of the transgenic plant. The present invention causes both anthocyanin delphinidin and a flavone C-glycoside that is methylated at the hydroxyl group at the 7 position to be present in the cells of a plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: Suntory Holdings LimitedInventors: Noriko Nakamura, Naoko Okitsu, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Yukihisa Katsumoto
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Publication number: 20220186279Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a novel method that can quantify diaminopimelic acid-containing bacteria in a test sample. The present invention relates to a method of quantifying diaminopimelic acid-containing bacteria in a test sample, including a step of quantifying the diaminopimelic acid-containing bacteria, using, as an index, the amount of diaminopimelic acid derived from the diaminopimelic acid-containing bacteria in the test sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Yosuke Sato, Naoki Kasajima, Toshihiko Fukuda, Masayuki Ida
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Publication number: 20220174974Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a tea aroma composition wherein the excellent aroma of tea leaves is enhanced. In the method for producing a tea aroma composition, tea leaves are treated by steam distillation to collect a distillate and then the obtained distillate is subjected to distillative concentration.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Daisaku Yonezawa, Makoto Otsuka, Takashi Mukai, Takeshi Nakajima, Keita Kikuchi, Yuji Hirayama, Taisuke Osanai, Taishu Hamaba
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Publication number: 20220177901Abstract: The present invention provides a stevia plant having a low ability to form pollens as compared with the wild type stevia species. The present invention also provides a method of producing such a stevia plant having a low ability to form pollens, and an extract or a steviol glycoside purified product obtainable from such a plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Tadayoshi HIRAI, Kazunari IWAKI, Kentaro OCHIAI
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Publication number: 20220159997Abstract: The present invention address the problem of providing a beverage having a citrus flavor while having off-flavors suppressed. The present invention provides a beverage containing 5 ppm or less of linalool and 0.25 to 30 ppm of chitosan.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Yuki Tomiyasu, Daigo Ibusuki
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Publication number: 20220159988Abstract: The present invention pertains to a tea beverage that contains: (a) a natural sugar in an amount corresponding to sweetness intensity X1; (b) a high-sweetness-degree sweetener in an amount corresponding to sweetness intensity X2; and (c) less than 50 mg/100 ml of sodium. The high-sweetness-degree sweetener includes at least one high-sweetness-degree sweetener b1 selected from the group consisting of rebaudioside M, rebaudioside D, rebaudioside N, rebaudioside O, rebaudioside E, Momordica grosvenori extract, mogroside V, and thaumatin, and the tea beverage satisfies 0.1<(X1+X2)?20.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Yoji ASAMI, Tadahiro OHKURI, Akiko FUJIE, Koji NAGAO, Yoshiaki YOKOO
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Publication number: 20220157411Abstract: The present disclosure includes a question creating section 21 configured to create a question for a drinking user to answer; an output section 11 configured to present the user with the question; an input section 11 configured to receive an operation by the user of inputting an answer to the question; and a computation section 22 configured to determine an intoxication degree of the user's on the basis of the answer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Yuichi Suzuki, Mitsuhiro Zeida, Toshinobu Hasegawa, Koichi Endo, Sonoko Kaneda, Motoshige Takagi, Aiko Nakagawa
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Patent number: 11330831Abstract: A beer-taste beverage containing (A) ?-octanolactone, (B) 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF), (C) trans-oaklactone, and (D) 4-ethylguaiacol, wherein the components satisfy the following (1) and (2): (1) a concentration ratio of the component A to the component B, A/B (ppb/ppb), is 0.009 or more; and (2) a concentration ratio of the component C to the component D, C/D (ppb/ppb), is 0.1 or more. In the beer-taste beverage of the present invention, rich sweetness and a smoky feel are given in an excellent balance, and off-flavors distinctively owned by the beer-taste beverages or a degradation odor generated with the change over time is masked (reduced), so that a new taste can be provided as a luxury product.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Takako Inui, Anna Shimmura
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Publication number: 20220132763Abstract: A novel Mandevilla genus plant is provided that has a novel color tone unable to be previously produced. A candidate Mandevilla genus plant is selected as a parent Mandevilla genus plant in the case carotenoid pigment is extracted from the petals thereof, and neoxanthin or a derivative thereof is present in the carotenoid pigment extract.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicants: SUNTORY FLOWERS LIMITED, SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: MASAHIRO YAMADA, Tomoya Misato, Takehiro Watanabe, Toshiaki Azuma, Manabu Horikawa
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Publication number: 20220125076Abstract: The present invention pertains to a fruit juice beverage that contains: (a) a natural sugar in an amount corresponding to sweetness intensity X1; (b) a high-sweetness-degree sweetener in an amount corresponding to sweetness intensity X2; and (c) less than 70 mg/100 ml of sodium. The high-sweetness-degree sweetener includes at least one high-sweetness-degree sweetener b1 selected from the group consisting of rebaudioside M, rebaudioside D, rebaudioside N, rebaudioside O, rebaudioside E, Momordica grosvenori extract, mogroside V, and thaumatin, and the fruit juice beverage satisfies 0.1<(X1+X2)?20.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Yoji ASAMI, Tadahiro OHKURI, Akiko FUJIE, Koji NAGAO, Yoshiaki YOKOO
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Patent number: 11299742Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a breeding method for a plant having a blue flower color with a simpler blue color development controlling technique, without requiring complex mechanisms for blue color development that have been previously presented and techniques reproducing such mechanisms. Delphinidin-based anthocyanins, in which the both 3? and 5?-positions of the anthocyanin B-ring have been glycosylated, and flavone glycosides or flavonol glycosides as copigment are made to coexist in the cells of flower organ such as petals.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Naonobu Noda, Masayoshi Nakayama, Mitsuru Douzono, Satoshi Hongo, Ryutaro Aida, Yukihisa Katsumoto
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Patent number: 11284576Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a Stevia plant having a high content of rebaudioside C. The present invention provides a high rebaudioside C-content type, non genetically modified Stevia plant that has a higher content of rebaudioside C than wild-type Stevia varieties, more specifically at least 20% higher content. The present invention further provides: a method for producing such a high rebaudioside C-content type, non genetically modified Stevia plant; and dried leaves obtained from such a plant.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Kazunari Iwaki, Eiichiro Ono, Tadayoshi Hirai, Katsuro Miyagawa
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Patent number: 11284638Abstract: Catechin compound(s)-containing beverages having reduced bitterness and astringency of catechin compound(s) while maintaining tea-like preferable flavors, methods of production thereof, and the like are provided. The content of catechin compound(s) in a beverage is adjusted to within a certain range, the total content of RebM and RebD in the beverage is adjusted to within a certain range, and the weight ratio of the total content of RebD and RebM to the content of the catechin compound(s) is adjusted to within a certain range.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Makoto Nakajima, Yasuyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11284630Abstract: Tea polymerized polyphenol-containing beverages having reduced bitterness and astringency of tea polymerized polyphenols while maintaining tea-like preferable flavors, methods of production thereof, and the like are provided. The content of tea polymerized polyphenols in a beverage is adjusted to within a certain range, the total content of RebM and RebD in the beverage is adjusted to within a certain range, and the weight ratio of the total content of RebD and RebM to the content of the tea polymerized polyphenols is adjusted to within a certain range.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Makoto Nakajima, Yasuyuki Kobayashi