Eli5 how were artificial flavors originally made

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Was thinking about this earlier when eating some jello. How did we create the flavor of something like all the different fruity flavors without there being any of the real thing in them? Appreciate the responses!

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Flavors come from chemicals. Once you figure out that *this* flavor comes from *these* chemicals, then you can simply create those exact same chemicals in a lab: *poof*, “artificial flavors”.

“Natural flavor” just means you extracted the exact same chemicals from a plant or animal source instead of just synthesizing them.

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