eli5: Why do products that are essentially just “Corn, Oil, and Salt” (like Frito’s, Doritos, popcorn, Bugles, CornNuts, etc) taste SO different from each other?

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I get that they are “similar”, and use different corn types and manufacturing processes, but since the labels do not list any other added flavors or ingredients, shouldn’t they just all taste about the same? After all isn’t it just corn, oil and salt? Yet they are very different in flavor.

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Apparently, Doritos are made from a specific “breed” of corn that the Frito-Lays company either bred & created themselves, or else somehow managed to buy all/any farms with this type of corn…so that Doritos can never truly be reproduced with the same flavor/crunch by any knock off/cheater brands

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