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.
In: Chemistry
There’s four potential areas
1. Sugar. Artificial strawberry can contain non sucrose sugar different from natural strawberries
2. Addition of acids / preservatives: citric acids can be added to artificial strawberry to enhance flavor
3. Food coloring: certain food dyes have a specific flavor or aroma to them
4. Artificial flavoring: kind of self explanatory but lab made flavor and aromatic chemicals may be added
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