How can they make something taste like a thing without using that thing? I know that they’re synthesised but.. How?
In: Chemistry
Flavours are made of molecules. How many and how complex depends on the flavour, but they’re just molecules nevertheless.
If you can analyse the composition of a flavour, and you can recreate the molecules, you’ve recreated the flavour.
Flavour houses (the manufacturers of flavours) spend A LOT of time and money on analysing flavours, and trying to recreate them for cheap with chemistry.
But sometimes they’re just too complex, either in amount of molecules or thrir structures. Then they might straight up go for extracting the real thing. But depending on what they do with it after, they might not be allowed to advertise “natural flavouring”.
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