PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flavor composition that can impart good deliciousness, flavor and salty taste recalling a salty scent of the sea to food and drink, to provide a taste enhancer, to provide a method for enhancing a taste using the taste enhancer, to provide a method for enhancing a feeling of seafood taste and to provide food and drink including the flavor composition and the taste enhancer.SOLUTION: A composition for food and drink includes a flavor composition or a taste enhancer each containing one kind or two or more kinds of compounds selected from a methylthioic acid, a methylthioalkyl acid and a methylthioalkenyl acid each represented by formula (1) and an unsaturated fatty acid. [R1 is a 1-4C alkyl chain or a 2-4C alkenyl chain which may have a direct bond or an alkyl group in the side chain]. The flavor composition includes 3-(methylthio)propionic acid as the acid compound represented by formula (1) and an octanoic acid as the unsaturated fatty acid.SELECTED DRAWING: NoneCOPYRIGHT: (C)2016,JPO&INPIT【課題】飲食品に潮の香りを想起させる良好な旨味や香味、塩味を付与できるフレーバー組成物、呈味増強剤及びこれを用いる呈味増強方法、シーフード感の増強方法及び前記フレーバー、呈味増強剤を含む飲食品の提供。【解決手段】式(1)で表されるメチルチオ酸、メチルチオアルキル酸、メチルチオアルケニル酸及び不飽和脂肪酸から選ばれる1種又は2種以上の化合物を含有するフレーバー組成物或いは呈味増強剤を含む飲食品用の組成物。[R1は直接結合又は側鎖にアルキル基を有してもよいC1~4のアルキル鎖又はC2~4のアルケニル鎖]式(1)で表される酸化合物が3-(メチルチオ)プロピオン酸であり、前記不飽和脂肪酸がオクテン酸であるフレーバー組成物。【選択図】なし
