Thaumatin

Product Introduction

Thaumatin is a kind of natural food sweetener with future development. Properties: white to cream color odorless powder. Sweet taste, no peculiar smell, lasting for a long time. Extremely sweet, the average sweetness is 1600 times of sucrose, but depends on the concentration of dilution: 0.00011 is 5500~8000 times, 0.001 is 3500 times, 0.01 is 1300 times, 0.02 is 850 times. Its aqueous solution is stable at pH 1.8-10, and its isoelectric point is about pH 11. It is a protein and can denaturate and lose its sweetness when heated, and it will also lose its sweetness when combined with tannin. The sweetness is reduced in a high concentration of salt solution. Very soluble in water. It has synergistic effect and improve flavor when used with sugar sweeteners.

Function

Thaumatin is a low-calorie (virtually caloriefree) protein sweetener and flavour modifier. The substance is often used primarily for its flavour modifying properties and not exclusively as a sweetener.

The thaumatins were first found as a mixture of proteins isolated from the katemfe fruit (Thaumatococcus daniellii Bennett) of west Africa. Some of the proteins in the thaumatin family are natural sweeteners roughly 2000 times more potent than sugar.  Although very sweet, thaumatin's taste is markedly different from sugar's.
The sweetness of thaumatin builds very slowly. Perception lasts a long time leaving a liquorice-like aftertaste at high usage levels.
Thaumatin is highly water-soluble, and stable to heating and stable under acidic conditions

Specification

Application
1. Baking 
2. Candies
3. drinking and beverages
4. Additives.