• moody@lemmings.world
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    2 days ago

    No artificial flavors

    “Natural” and “artificial” flavors are determined by how they’re made/obtained, not by what the ingredient itself is. You can have the same ingredient labeled as either artificial or natural.

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      Like “Natural strawberry flavor”. Made by cooking wood shavings in alcohol. No strawberry was harmed in the process.

      Or like Sebastian Lege did it in one of his shows: He mixed a number of acids to make “Banana Flavor”. Or when he talked about “natural smoke flavor”, which is a byproduct of producing charcoal, and the company he visited claimed they produce several thousand tons a year…