Abstract: The present disclosure also provides a sweetening composition including a) 0.1 to 50 g/l of a natural sweet-tasting carbohydrate, b) 40 to 120 g/l of a natural sweet-tasting carbohydrate different from a), and c) 30 to 300 mg/I of rubusoside or a rubusoside derivative. Moreover, the present disclosure is about the use of said sweetening compositions for sweetening and preparing beverages as well as for preparing syrups as precursors and for the preparation of such beverages. The disclosure is also about a beverage including said sweetening compositions as well as about a process for preparing such beverage.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sweetening composition including a) acesulfam or aspartame, b) sucralose, a stevia compound, saccharin or cyclamate, c) neohesperidin, thaumatine, rubusoside, a rubusoside derivative, phloretin, trilobatin, monatin and/or hesperetin, and d) tannin in an amount in the range from 1 mg/l to 400 mg/l or wherein, based on the total weight of components a), b), c) and d), the component a) is present in an amount in the range from 10 to 50 wt-%, component b) in an amount in the range from 15 to 65 wt-%, component c) in an amount in the range from 0.1 to 4 wt-%, and component d) in an amount in the range from 5 to 50 wt-%. Moreover, the present disclosure is about the use of said sweetening compositions for sweetening and preparing beverages as well as for preparing syrups as precursors and for the preparation of such beverages. The disclosure is also about a beverage including said sweetening compositions as well as about a process for preparing such beverage.

Abstract: A sweetening or sweetened composition includes sucrose, rubusoside or a rubusoside derivative, and a tannin which may be used in a process for preparing a beverage. Further disclosed is the use of the composition for sweetening beverages as well as for preparing a syrup as a precursor in the preparation of beverages and also as flavoring substance with modifying properties and for reducing the sucrose content in beverages without essentially exhibiting a reduced sweetness sensation. Also disclosed is the use of a combination comprising rubusoside or a rubusoside derivative and a tannin for shortening the lingering sweetness of artificial sweeteners and for shifting the onset of the temporal sweetness sensation of said artificial sweetener towards that of natural sugars.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a first sweetening composition comprising a) a natural sweet-tasting carbohydrate, b) a Stevia compound, c) rubusoside, a rubusoside derivative, neohesperidin, thaumatine, phloretin, trilobatin, monatin, hesperetin, an enzyme-treated steviol glycoside or any combination thereof, and d) tannin, wherein component d) is present in an amount in the range from 1 mg/l to 400 mg/l, or wherein, based on the total weight of components b), c) and d), component b) is present in an amount in the range from 45 to 75 wt-%, component c) in an amount in the range from 2 to 40 wt-%, and component d) in an amount in the range from 2 to 40 wt-%. Furthermore, the present disclosure provides a second sweetening composition comprising a) a natural sweet-tasting carbohydrate, b) a Stevia compound, c) rubusoside or a rubusoside derivative, d) tannin and e) oak extract or pomegranate extract.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a first sweetening composition comprising a) a natural sweet-tasting carbohydrate, b) a stevia compound, c) rubusoside, a rubusoside derivative, neohesperidin, thaumatine, phloretin, trilobatin, monatin, hesperetin, an enzyme-treated steviol glycoside or any combination thereof, and d) tannin, wherein component d) is present in an amount in the range from 1 mg/l to 400 mg/l, or wherein, based on the total weight of components b), c) and d), component b) is present in an amount in the range from 45 to 75 wt-%, component c) in an amount in the range from 2 to 40 wt-%, and component d) in an amount in the range from 2 to 40 wt-%. Furthermore, the present disclosure provides a second sweetening composition comprising a) a natural sweet-tasting carbohydrate, b) a stevia compound, c) rubusoside or a rubusoside derivative, d) tannin and e) oak extract or pomegranate extract.

Abstract: Sweetened beverages are produced with and/or substantially comprise mineral-rich water and one or more natural sweeteners. Further disclosed is the use of mineral-rich water in the production of sweetened beverages for enhancing sweet sensory impression or for enhancing sweetening power of natural sweeteners and/or for enhancing palatefulness in beverages sweetened with these natural sweeteners.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a first sweetening composition comprising a) a natural sweet-tasting carbohydrate, b) a stevia compound, c) rubusoside, a rubusoside derivative, neohesperidin, thaumatine, phloretin, trilobatin, monatin, hesperetin, an enzyme-treated steviol glycoside or any combination thereof, and d) tannin, wherein component d) is present in an amount in the range from 1 mg/l to 400 mg/l, or wherein, based on the total weight of components b), c) and d), component b) is present in an amount in the range from 45 to 75 wt-%, component c) in an amount in the range from 2 to 40 wt-%, and component d) in an amount in the range from 2 to 40 wt-%. Furthermore, the present disclosure provides a second sweetening composition comprising a) a natural sweet-tasting carbohydrate, b) a stevia compound, c) rubusoside or a rubusoside derivative, d) tannin and e) oak extract or pomegranate extract.

Abstract: A sweetening or sweetened composition includes sucrose, rubusoside or a rubusoside derivative, and a tannin which may be used in a process for preparing a beverage. Further disclosed is the use of the composition for sweetening beverages as well as for preparing a syrup as a precursor in the preparation of beverages and also as flavoring substance with modifying properties and for reducing the sucrose content in beverages without essentially exhibiting a reduced sweetness sensation. Also disclosed is the use of a combination comprising rubusoside or a rubusoside derivative and a tannin for shortening the lingering sweetness of artificial sweeteners and for shifting the onset of the temporal sweetness sensation of said artificial sweetener towards that of natural sugars.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a first sweetening composition comprising a) a natural sweet-tasting carbohydrate, b) a stevia compound, c) rubusoside, a rubusoside derivative, neohesperidin, thaumatine, phloretin, trilobatin, monatin, hesperetin, an enzyme-treated steviol glycoside or any combination thereof, and d) tannin, wherein component d) is present in an amount in the range from 1 mg/l to 400 mg/l, or wherein, based on the total weight of components b), c) and d), component b) is present in an amount in the range from 45 to 75 wt-%, component c) in an amount in the range from 2 to 40 wt-%, and component d) in an amount in the range from 2 to 40 wt-%. Furthermore, the present disclosure provides a second sweetening composition comprising a) a natural sweet-tasting carbohydrate, b) a stevia compound, c) rubusoside or a rubusoside derivative, d) tannin and e) oak extract or pomegranate extract.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing vattable organic pigments. The invention is characterized in that an agueous or an aqueous-organic suspension of a coarse crystalline raw mineral is vatted and re-oxidised, and the pigment suspension is ground to a diameter equal to or less than 0.9 mm during vatting and/or during oxidation by means of an agitator ball mill, which is operated at a power density of more than 1.0 KW per litre per grinding chamber and at an agitator peripheral speed of more than 12 m/s, using grinding bodies.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing vattable organic pigments. The invention is characterised in that an aqueous or an aqueous-organic suspension of a coarse crystalline raw mineral is vatted and re-oxidised, and the pigment suspension is ground to a diameter equal to or less than 0.9 mm during vatting and/or during oxidation by means of an agitator ball mill, which is operated at a power density of more than 1.0 KW per litre per grinding chamber and at an agitator peripheral speed of more than 12 m/s, using grinding bodies.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing transparent perylimide pigments of the formula (I): in which u is a number from 0 to 8 and, if u>0, E is a chlorine or bromine atom and, where u>1, may be a combination thereof, which comprises wet-grinding a crude perylimide pigment in a liquid medium in a stirred ballmill operated at a power density of from 1.0 kW per liter of milling space and at a stirrer tip speed of more than 12 m/s under the action of grinding media having a diameter of less than or equal to 0.9 mm, and isolating the resulting pigment.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing transparent perylimide pigments of the formula (I) 1

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing transparent perylimide pigments of the formula (I) in which u is a number from 0 to 8 and, if u>0, E is a chlorine or bromine atom and, where u>1, may be a combination thereof, which comprises wet-grinding a crude perylimide pigment in a liquid medium in a stirred ballmill operated at a power density of from 1.0 kW per liter of milling space and at a stirrer tip speed of more than 12 m/s under the action of grinding media having a diameter of less than or equal to 0.9 mm, and isolating the resulting pigment.

Abstract: Pigment preparations comprising a) at least one organic base pigment, b1) at least one perylene pigment dispersant of the formula (I)  and b2) at least one acidic, carboxyl- or sulfo-containing perylene pigment dispersant have advantageous rheological and coloristic properties.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel quinacridone mixed crystal pigments consisting of a) from 82.5 to 99% by weight of unsubstituted &ggr;-phase quinacridone of the formula (I) in which R1 and R2 are hydrogen atoms and b) from 1 to 17.5% by weight of one or more 2,9- and/or 3,10-substituted quinacridones of the formula (I) in which the substituents R1 and R2 are identical or different and are chlorine, bromine or fluorine atoms or C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy or carboxamido groups which can be substituted by C1-C6-alkyl groups, and R1 can additionally be a hydrogen atom, and to pigment preparations comprising said quinacridone mixed crystal pigments.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing transparent perylimide pigments of the formula (I) 1

Abstract: The use of mixed-crystal pigments of the quinacridone series consisting of a) from 85 to 99% by weight of unsubstituted &bgr;-phase quinacridone of the formula (I) in which R1 and R2 are hydrogen atoms, and b) from 1 to 15% by weight of one or more substituted quinacridones of the formula (I) in which the substituents R1 and R2 are identical or different and are chlorine, bromine or fluorine atoms or C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy or carboxamido groups, which can be substituted by C1-C6-alkyl groups, and R1 can additionally be hydrogen, as colorants in electrophotographic toners and developers, powder coating materials, inkjet inks, electret fibers, and color filters.

Abstract: Linear unsubstituted and substituted quinacridone pigments and quinacridone mixed-crystal pigments are obtained by cyclizing dianilinoterephthalic acid with polyphosphoric acid and then hydrolyzing the ring closure mixture, said mixture being metered into an amount of water or orthophosphoric acid which is such that the final orthophosphoric acid concentration is greater than or equal to 50% by weight in the hedrolysis mixture.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pigment dispersants of the formula (I) in which Z1 is a radical of the formula (Ia) —[X—Y]q—[X1—Y1]r—[X2—NH]sH  (Ia) in which X, X1 and X2 are identical or different and are a branched or unbranched C2-C6-alkylene radical or a C5-C7-cycloalkylene radical which can be substituted by from 1 to 4 C1-C4-alkyl radicals, hydroxyl radicals, and/or by from 1 to 2 further C5-C7-cycloalkyl radicals; Y and Y1 are identical or different and are an NH—, —O— or N(C1-C6-alkyl) group, q is a number from 1 to 6, r and s independently of one another are a number from 0 to 6, but are not simultaneously zero; and Z is defined as Z1, Z2 or Z3, where Z2 is a radical of the formula (Ib) —[X—O]q1—[X1—O]qH  (Ib) in which q1 is a number from 0 to 6, and Z3 is hydrogen, hydroxyl, amino or C1-C6-alkyl where the alkyl group can