Phyllodulcin is a
dihydroisocoumarin found in ''
Hydrangea macrophylla'' and ''
Hydrangea serrata''.
[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 be ...
400–800 times sweeter than sugar.
[Chemical and Functional Properties of Food Saccharides. P. Tomasik, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2003, .]
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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 tim ...
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Dihydroisocoumarins
Sugar substitutes
Vanilloids
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