Phyllodulcin is a
dihydroisocoumarin
Dihydroisocoumarins are phenolic compounds related to isocoumarin. Dihydroisocoumarin glucosides can be found in ''Caryocar glabrum
''Caryocar glabrum'' is a species of tree in the family Caryocaraceae. It is native to South America
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found in ''
Hydrangea macrophylla
''Hydrangea macrophylla'' is a species of flowering plant in the family
Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of ...
'' and ''
Hydrangea serrata
''Hydrangea serrata'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Hydrangeaceae, native to mountainous regions of Korea and Japan. Common names include mountain hydrangea and tea of heaven. Growing to tall and broad, it is a deciduous shrub w ...
''.
[Accumulation of phyllodulcin in sweet-leaf plants of Hydrangea serrata and its neutrality in the defence against a specialist leafmining herbivore. Mami Ujihara, Masateru Shinozaki and Makoto Kato, Researches on population ecology, Volume 37, Number 2, pp. 249–257, .] It is a
sweetener
{{Wiktionary, sweetener
A sweetener is a substance added to food or drink to impart the flavor of sweetness, either because it contains a type of sugar, or because it contains a sweet-tasting sugar substitute. Many artificial sweeteners have been ...
400–800 times sweeter than sugar.
[Chemical and Functional Properties of Food Saccharides. P. Tomasik, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2003, .]
See also
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Amacha
is a Japanese herbal tea made from fermented leaves of ''Hydrangea macrophylla'' var. ''thunbergii''. The name derives from the characters for and .
Amacha means ''sweet tea''. This tea contains tannin and phyllodulcin, a sweetener 400–800 ti ...
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Dihydroisocoumarins
Sugar substitutes
Vanilloids
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