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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Tons of testing and chemical engineering. Every taste/smell compound is a complex mix of many chemicals. The goal is to isolate each one, replicate them, and then mix the fake ingredients to make a copy. Sometimes it only takes a couple of chemicals to make a close enough match. In high school chemistry we made artificial grape and banana flavors. The lab smelled so good that day.