How do companies create flavours like fruits,coffee etc without using actual fruit or coffee?

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How do companies create flavours like fruits,coffee etc without using actual fruit or coffee?

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Let’s say you’ve got a brand new Lego set, but dang it they left a piece out! Well luckily you have that same piece already, but it’s a different color. It’ll still work for the build itself, even though it’s slightly different.

Basically, artificial flavor molecules are shaped the same way as natural flavor molecules, or as close enough as they can currently get. Your taste buds recognize the shape and tell your brain that it’s the corresponding flavor.