PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a soy sauce like seasoning material made as containing a low salt content, capable of giving a sufficient salty taste and thickness with punching effect although it has the low salt content, also sufficiently suppressing a different taste and having balanced tastes.SOLUTION: This liquid seasoning material effectively suppressed with the different taste of an ammonium ion having a salty taste-alternative action, also imparted with a salt taste-reinforced feeling and the thick feeling of palatable taste, and markedly improved with the preferable taste is obtained by incorporating 0.2 to 4.0% (w/v) ammonium ion to the soy sauce like seasoning material made as containing the low salt content and further optimizing the composition and content of a stevia sweetener.COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】減塩でありながら、十分な塩味とパンチの効いた濃厚さが感じられ、かつ異味が十分に抑制されて味のバランスもとれた、低塩化した醤油様調味料を提供すること。【解決手段】低塩化した醤油様調味料に、アンモニウムイオンを0.2~4.0%(w/v)含有させ、さらにステビア甘味料の組成と含有量を最適化することによって、塩味代替作用を有するアンモニウムイオンの異味を効果的に抑制し、かつ塩味増強感と呈味の濃厚感が付与されて、嗜好性が顕著に向上した液体調味料を得る。【選択図】なし