Guest guest Posted January 8, 2003 Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 In a message dated 01/08/2003 7:23:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, writes: > In Fast Food Nation, he explains what natural flavorings means, but it's > been > so long since I read that book I can't remember!! LOL. If I think about > it > today I'll see if I can find it and look it up. > > >Ach! Me too. I mean dog poop is natural, but I sure wouldn't want > >that in my > >food. *lol* Now why can't they just tell us what " natural " flavor it > >is exactly? > OK, I looked up in Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (I quote this source because it's the only place I've ever read about flavorings. There's probably tons of stuff on the web, though) about the natural and artificial flavoring and their difference. There's like 8 pages on this subject (122 - 128) but basically it boils down to this. Artificial flavors are made entirely by chemical compounds, like ethyl-2-methyl butyrate, which smells like an apple. Natural flavorings are required by the FDA " to be derived entirely from natural sources -- from herbs, spices, fruits, vegetables, beef, chicken, yeast, bark, roots, etc. " He goes on to say that " Natural and artificial flavors sometimes contain exactly the same chemicals, produced through different methods. Amyl acetate, for example, provides the dominant note of banana flavor. When you distill it from bananas with a solvent, amyl acetate is a natural flavor. When you produce it by mixing vinegar with amyl alcohol, adding sulfuric acid as a catalyst, amyl acetate is an artificial flavor. Either way it smells and tastes the same. The phrase 'natural flavor' is now listed among the ingredients of everything from Stonyfield Farm Organic Strawberry Yogurt to Taco Bell Hot Taco Sauce. " Peace and Harmony, Sherri What you do may seem insignificant, but it's important that you do it. - Mahatma Gandhi Look at my family webpage: http://hometown.aol.com/sherri5762/index.html Like to chat? Check out Cyber Chat Cafe! Cyber_Chat_Cafe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 8, 2003 Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 Thanks for that info. Much better to know than to imagine it being derived from poop. *lol* ~ P_T ~ Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law. -Ferdinand de Saussure, linguist, (1857-1913 ~~~~~*~~~~~*~~~~~*~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> , Sherri5762@a... wrote: > Artificial flavors are made entirely by chemical compounds, like > ethyl-2-methyl butyrate, which smells like an apple. Natural flavorings are > required by the FDA " to be derived entirely from natural sources -- from > herbs, spices, fruits, vegetables, beef, chicken, yeast, bark, roots, etc. " > He goes on to say that " Natural and artificial flavors sometimes contain > exactly the same chemicals, produced through different methods. Amyl > acetate, for example, provides the dominant note of banana flavor. When you > distill it from bananas with a solvent, amyl acetate is a natural flavor. > When you produce it by mixing vinegar with amyl alcohol, adding sulfuric acid > as a catalyst, amyl acetate is an artificial flavor. Either way it smells > and tastes the same. The phrase 'natural flavor' is now listed among the > ingredients of everything from Stonyfield Farm Organic Strawberry Yogurt to > Taco Bell Hot Taco Sauce. " > > Peace and Harmony, > Sherri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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