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‘Natural Flavor’ Comes From A Beaver’s Butt

32 点作者 alt_超过 11 年前

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jjp9999超过 11 年前
I used to work in a flavor company. &quot;Natural&quot; strawberry flavor also uses an ingredient extracted from rotten eggs. It has to have at least some of what it says it is (like strawberry extract) to be called what it is, but this can be like one drop in a barrel. Also, if you add even the smallest amount of natural flavor to an artificial flavor, you can call it &quot;Natural and Artificial.&quot;<p>Basically, the artificial flavors are really cheap, so people try to avoid the natural stuff when customers don&#x27;t care.<p>But on that note, there are some good ingredients, since some flavors are too hard to create unless you use the real stuff (like black tea -- you just overbrew it to make a concentrate).
eli超过 11 年前
I don&#x27;t think this is that big a deal.<p>What I think is funny is when an ingredient can both be found in nature (e.g. in the shell of a beetle) or made in a lab, but the generally more expensive and lower quality natural version is chosen so the product can be &quot;all natural.&quot;
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revelation超过 11 年前
So why are companies allowed to just use the non-descript term &quot;Natural Flavor&quot; in a list of ingredients, instead of <i>Castoreum</i>? That seems to be the actual problem here.
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Renaud超过 11 年前
There are whole varieties of fungi being used as natural flavouring, for instance in yogurts to give them the natural flavour of apple, vanilla, strawberry, pineapple, etc<p>A couple of PDFs on the subject:<p>* <a href="http://wsmbmp.org/proceedings/2nd%20international%20conference/Mushroom%20Biology%20and%20Mushroom%20Products%20(Green%20book)/37%20Mushrooms%20as%20a%20Source%20of%20Natural%20Flavor%20and%20Aroma%20Compounds.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wsmbmp.org&#x2F;proceedings&#x2F;2nd%20international%20conferen...</a><p>* <a href="http://www.fungaldiversity.org/fdp/sfdp/FD13-153-166.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fungaldiversity.org&#x2F;fdp&#x2F;sfdp&#x2F;FD13-153-166.pdf</a><p>Perfectly natural, but certainly not what you would expect these flavours to come from.
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chrisgd超过 11 年前
From &quot;Jamie Oliver&#x27;s Food Revolution&quot; about the ingredients in ice cream sundaes. Pretty interesting show when it was on.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrSdPWV5Tjo" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vrSdPWV5Tjo</a>
huhtenberg超过 11 年前
From what I&#x27;ve read, Castoreum is (a) prohibitively expensive and (b) banned all over the world, so the chances of finding it in your ice cream or any other food are zero. Not that said food will be lacking other equally tasty ingredients.
rotten超过 11 年前
What they fail to mention is how they figured out stuff tastes like that... I can imagine there is some guy out there who tastes stuff just to see what it tastes like. &quot;Hmmm, that is a strange looking bug, I wonder what it tastes like?&quot; &quot;What is that stuff on that beaver&#x27;s butt? I wonder what it tastes like?&quot;