A method of reducing oral cavity and tongue coating adherence and tongue numbing effects of a sweetener composition and imparting a more sugar-like temporal and flavor profile to a high potency sweetener, that includes providing to a person a sweetener composition that includes an encapsulated high potency sweetener or a high potency sweetener included in an emulsified mixture. The high potency sweetener is selected from the group consisting of: mogroside IV, mogroside V, Luo Han Guo sweetener, siamenoside, monatin and its salts (monatin SS, RA RS, SR). curculin, glycyrrhizic acid and its salts, thaumatin, monellin, mabinlin, brazzein, hemandulcin, phyllodulcin, glycyphyllin, phloridzin, trilobatin, baiyunoside, osladin, polypodoside A, pterocaryoside A, pterocaryoside B, mukurozioside, phlomisoside I, periandrin I, abrusoside A, cyclocarioside I, and modification or derivatives thereof.
