Eli5 if natural flavours are heavily processed chemicals extracted from raw materials, what distinguishes them from artificial flavours?
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“Natural flavors” means that the chemical compound making the flavor naturally exists in the source. So all you’re doing is pulling that chemical out.
“Artificial flavors” means that you don’t have the chemical at all, and are reproducing it in a laboratory by synthesizing it, putting other molecules and atoms together like building blocks in a chemical reaction to get the chemical you want.
So hypothetically, you could have two bottles of the exact same chemical, but one could be “natural flavors” if they made that bottle by pulling it out of a plant, and one could be “artificial flavors” if they made that bottle by producing it in a lab. The chemical is the exact same, it just depends where it comes from.
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