Why do artificial strawberry flavors taste so much different than actual strawberries?

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Usually artificial flavors do a good job at tasting like things that they aren’t, except for artificial strawberry flavors. I like them, but they taste nothing like strawberries, even for an artificial flavor.

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Because it isn’t strawberry. It is an ester (chemical) that happens to taste similar to stawberries.

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