How do they create artificial flavors to taste like real foods?

Question

How do they create artificial flavors to taste like real foods?

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Answer 1

Real foods get their tastes from chemicals that occur naturally in the plant/animal/herb/whatever. Chemists can harvest or ‘forge’ those chemicals and add them to different things.

It doesn’t always work well, since most vessels for such chemicals have a taste of their own, but sometimes it works really well.