PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a beverage having improved taste with defects such as residual sweetness in mouth, bitterness, and harshness caused by high-sweetness sweetener being remedied, almost without change in designed quality.SOLUTION: The beverage has improved taste such as improved residual sweetness in mouth caused by high-sweetness sweetener, including 0.1 to 1,000 ppm of alginates such as propylene glycol alginate, sodium alginate, and potassium alginate blended therein.COPYRIGHT: (C)2015,JPO&INPIT【課題】飲料の設計品質をほとんど変えることなく、高甘味度甘味料に起因する甘味の後引き、苦味やエグミなどの呈味の欠点を改善する。【解決手段】アルギン酸プロピレングリコール、アルギン酸ナトリウム、アルギン酸カリウム等のアルギン酸類を0.1~1000ppm配合することによって、高甘味度甘味料に起因する甘味の後引き等の、呈味が改善飲料された飲料。【選択図】なし