How is peach flavoring so easily captured in gummies, water, etc, when so many other flavors taste obviously fake?
In: Chemistry
Not an expert, I just feel very strongly about fruit; here’s what I know. Fruit flavors are caused by alcohols called esters. The overall flavor is a combination of those alcohols, sugars, and acids. Strawberry is a pretty complex flavor, so synthesizing all the molecules to replicate it is very difficult and/or costly, so most strawberry candy, while reminiscent of the fruit, is far too simple and artificial to pass. I couldn’t tell you about peach, it likely is composed of fewer alcohols would be my guess. So, likely fewer molecules would need to be synthesized to taste more like actual peach.
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