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Natural flavors are flavor juice derived from natural things, it may not come from where you expect
The only real requirement here is that it is sourced from something that grows. It could be juice from a fruit, oil from a leaf, or an odd chemical in the bark. As long as the starting components grew its “natural”
They don’t always derive from the thing you expect. “Natural” coconut flavor actually comes from the bark of a completely unrelated tree, it just happens to have a compound that tastes coconutty. A sour thing with “Natural flavor” may just have its citric acid sourced from Lemons and Oranges regardless of what sour type of fruit its listed as being.
You can also have “artificial flavors” that are absolutely identical except for how they were derived. Apparently most coconut flavor these days is artificial because harvesting the bark kills the tree so we just make the *exact same molecule* from precursors that didn’t grow before they were harvested
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