PureCircle Achieves Global Patent Milestone on Natural Flavor NSF-02

CHICAGOPureCircle announced it had reached a milestone in securing a comprehensive intellectual property portfolio for its new natural flavor NSF-02. The patent portfolio, which includes granted and patent-pending applications with international reach, is aimed to ensure its partners exclusive access to the ingredient.

PureCircles comprehensive patent portfolio covers all aspects of the company's proprietary manufacturing process, as well as various modes of NSF-02 uses in key food and beverage categories. PureCircle scientists discovered that NSF-02 can be used at particular concentrations to provide significantly enhanced flavor and sweetness profiles that deliver a more rounded, sugar-like taste. Synergistic effects with a number of commercial sweeteners were obtained with NSF-02, making applicable across broad categories of food and beverage products.

PureCircle announced the launch of NSF-02 last year, for use within North America, Latin America and Europe. NSF-02 has been developed specifically to work in combination with PureCircles high purity stevia sweeteners, including Reb A, SG-95 and PureCircle Alpha, as well as sugar or high fructose corn syrup, enhancing the flavor, sweetness and taste of food and beverages.