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There are around 4,000 'flavours' and they are used for colour, to restore, reinforce,
and add what is not there and to ensure batch uniformity. They are not presently subject
to the 'Number' system nor are they required to be separately shown on food labels. Regarding labels and flavour, note that 'caramel flavour' means just what it says - it will taste like caramel; however the product does not need to contain any caramel to taste as though it does. But if it says 'caramel flavoured' on the label means that the product must contain caramel. The 'ed' in flavoured makes all the difference! The artificial strawberry flavour used by one of the fast food chains milk drink has never seen a strawberry! Chemists did a spectrograph of the ingredients of the flavour of a real strawberry and calculated the percentage of each. Then they took the spectrographs of chemicals and matched them to those in the strawberry. Now they can make an artificial flavouring that tastes better than the real strawberry! Here is the list of ingredients for artificial strawberry flavour: amyl acetate, amyl butyrate, amyl valerate, anethol, anisyl formate, benzyl acetate, benzyl isobutyrate, butyric acid, cinnamyl isobutyrate, cinnamyl valerate, cognac essential oil, diacetyl, dipropyl ketone, ethyl acetate, ethyl amyl ketone, ethyl butyrate, ethyl cinnamate, ethyl heptanoate, ethyl heptylate, ethyl lactate, ethyl methylphenylglycidate, ethyl nitrate, ethyl propionate, ethyl valerate, heliotropin, hydroxyphenyl-2-butanone (10 percent solution in alcohol), a-ionone, isobutyl anthranilate, isobutyl butyrate, lemon essential oil, maltol, 4-methylacetophenone, methyl anthranilate, methyl benzoate, methyl cinnamate, methyl heptine carbonate, methyl naphthyl ketone, methyl salicylate, mint essential oil, neroli essential oil, nerolin, neryl isobutyrate, orris butter, phenethyl alcohol, rose, rum ether, g-undecalactone, vanillin, and solvent. Yummmmy! |