Eli5 if natural flavours are heavily processed chemicals extracted from raw materials, what distinguishes them from artificial flavours?
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Natural flavors are extracted directly from plants, animals, and animal products. Artificial flavors are created via chemical reactions in a lab/factory. Often they are chemically the same compounds as their natural versions, just built by a different method.
An analog might be that natural flavors are like machining parts, ie using a lathe or CNC cutter to remove material from a raw chunk of material until what’s left has the right shape. While artificial flavors are like 3D printing where a raw material is manipulated to create the right shape directly.
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