Thaumatin Production

Within West Africa, the katemfe bake-apple has been locally able and used to flavour foods and beverages for some time. The fruit's seeds are encased in a bleary sac, or aril, that is the antecedent of thaumatin. In the 1970s, Tate and Lyle began extracting thaumatin from the fruit. In 1990, advisers at Unilever appear the abreast and sequencing of the two arch proteins begin in thaumatin, which they dubbed thaumatin I and thaumatin II. These advisers were aswell able to accurate thaumatin in genetically engineered bacteria.

Thaumatin has been accustomed as a aspartame in the European Union, Israel, and Japan. In the United States, it is about accustomed as safe as a flavouring abettor but not as a sweetener.