The artificial flavors used in sodas, medicine, … tend to have this unique flavor profile and most people can tell it is not natural. Why is this?
In: Chemistry
A big part of it is that most artificial flavors only duplicate one or two of the flavor ingredients of the original. For example, vanillin is used for fake vanilla. It is one chemical compound. Real vanilla contains over 200. Vanillin is the dominant flavor, but far from the only one. The artificial flavor is extremely simple and one-note compared to the real thing.
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