ELi5: How are “artificial” colors and flavors made?

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Don’t the chemicals that make the flavors/colors have to come through natural sources?

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Chemistry, but each one has a different synthesis process. For instance strawberry flavor is called 2-méthylpropanoate ethyl, it’s made with alcohol and carboxylic acid.

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