How do flavors work?

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I was sharing a can of bacon flavored pringles at work with some coworkers and we got into discussing the different types of “weird” flavored chips we’ve eaten. Cheeseburger flavor, taco flavor, and oven roasted chicken flavor, pizza flavor, etc. How the heck do they manage to get the chip to taste like a cheeseburger? Bread, cheese, meat, and all? How?

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The seasoning powder is made with combinations of dried ingredients like spices, dehydrated vegetables, or dried and powdered vinegar or sour cream. Some of these come from natural sources and others are artificially made.

Something like a bacon cheeseburger flavour would be made by mixing salt with some powdered beef stock, pork stock, smoke flavouring, and powdered cheese. A taco flavoured chip might have the same beef stock with some Mexican spices, tomato powder, and powdered cheese.

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