PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a taste improver enabling the inexpensive production of a milk-added tasty beverage having not only bitterness and astringency originally possessed by a tasty beverage but also rich flavor of the milk, providing good aftertaste of the milk and hardly causing precipitation without causing reduction of the bitterness and the astringency likely to the tasty beverage, sometimes occurring when the milk is added to the tasty beverage.SOLUTION: The taste improver for the milk-added tasty beverage comprises an ester of gallic acid represented by the formula (wherein, R is 1-12C alkyl).COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】 嗜好飲料に乳を添加した際におこる、嗜好飲料らしい苦味や渋味の低減を引き起こすことなく、嗜好飲料本来の苦味や渋味とミルクのふくよかな風味を併せ持ち、ミルクの後切れ感がよく、しかも沈殿の発生しない乳添加嗜好飲料を安価に製造可能とする呈味改善剤を提供することである。【解決手段】 没食子酸エステルからなることを特徴とする乳添加嗜好飲料の呈味改善剤である。【選択図】 なし
