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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The basic process is that a company picks a target (let’s say mango), then they look at the chemicals in a bunch of mangoes, and try to figure out what chemicals taste and smell like mango. There are usually hundreds, but two or three of them do a lot of the work. Then they look at those primary chemicals and try and figure out how to make them in a lab. Maybe it’s by combining other chemicals to make new chemicals, or maybe it’s by finding microbes that do the work for us.