Ziziphin structure

In the late 1980s, ziziphin (145) was isolated from the Chinese jujube tree, Ziziphus jujuba P. Miller as the first recognized antsweet principle of this plant [146]. Ziziphin (145) has the same dammarane-type aglycone structure as in hodulosides III-V (115-117). Yoshikawa et al. isolated... 

A recent review by Kurlhara deals with structures and physiological action of sweetness-masking substances such as gymnemic acids, ziziphin, heat-stable sweet protein, mabinlins and taste converting protein from sourness to sweetness such as miraculins and curculins. 

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