Taste improving agent, perfume composition and beer-like beverage containing vanillyl ethyl ether

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a taste-improving agent for beer-like beverage and a flavor composition for beer-like beverage capable of giving beer-like beverages enhanced in both favorable bitter feeling and aftertaste briskness peculiar to beer or hop and improved in natural feeling and liking by including the agent, and to provide such beer-like beverages. PSOLUTION: The taste-improving agent comprises vanillyl ethyl ether. The flavor composition contains vanillyl ethyl ether. The beer-like beverages contain vanillyl ethyl ether. The beer-like beverages enhanced in both favorable bitter feeling and aftertaste briskness peculiar to beer or hop and improved in natural feeling and liking can be obtained by including the above agent or composition. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI