Can you break down "natural flavors"?!
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its a way for the companies to keep their flavorings secret
it can be most herbs, spices, and fruit or flavoring from these sources.
Natural flavors can be made a number of different ways and it's not what most people think of when they hear the word "natural".
A flavor is a mixture of many different organic chemicals To be qualified as natural, all those chemicals must be derived naturally, such as in an extract, or synthesized chemically using natural chemicals to start with.
If that sounds complicated, it is sometimes. But here's an example:
Amyl Acetate is a chemical used in flavors that tastes like bananas. It can be made synthetically by a reaction between acetic acid and iso amyl alcohol. Or, it can be made naturally by a reaction of naturally fermented vinegar and fusel oil. Both have the same end product, amyl acetate.
Sometimes you can react two natural chemcials to form a third chemical which doesn't exist in nature. That third chemical can legally be called natural, even if there is no such thing in nature.
Similar rules apply to colors.
