How can mass produced products like Salsa taste the same every time when the vegetables they contain have so many variables?

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How can mass produced products like Salsa taste the same every time when the vegetables they contain have so many variables?

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Answer 1

There’s another factor besides batch size and quality control: this is more relevant to juice, but it applies to things like jarred salsa. Food companies extract flavor chemicals out of the fruit and vegetables, then recombine them according to a specific recipe. It’s still 100% oranges or whatever, but they also turned those oranges into flavor syrups and mixed them according to the desired flavor.