PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a taste improver added to food and drink to give them delicious taste, richness and voluminous feeling inherent in the food and drink, and also to give them excellent sharpness when taken.SOLUTION: The taste improver has a mixture of a single or at least two of diglyceride with one side of which a relatively short-chain fatty acid having a specific number of carbon atoms is combined, and with the other side of which a relatively long-chain fatty acid having a specific number of carbon atoms is combined, as an active ingredient. A flavor composition contains the taste improver. Food and drink contains the taste improver or the flavor composition.COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT【課題】本発明は、飲食品に配合することで、飲食品固有の旨味、こく味、ボリューム感を付与・向上し、しかも飲食したときに優れた切れ味を付与できる呈味改善剤を提供することを目的とするものである。【解決手段】一方に炭素数特定の比較的短鎖の脂肪酸、他の一方に炭素数特定の比較的長鎖の脂肪酸が結合したジグリセライドの単独または2以上の混合物を有効成分とする呈味改善剤、また該呈味改善剤を含有する香料組成物、更には該呈味改善剤または香料組成物を含有する飲食品。【選択図】なし
