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Chemistry's apology for food that lost its personality in processing.
means A substance added to food to give it, restore it, or boost its taste.
from From 'flavor,' which came into English through French 'flaveur,' likely rooted in Latin 'flare' (to blow) or 'foetor' (smell) — the trail is genuinely tangled, with scholars disputing which won out. The '-ing' is just English doing what it does, turning an action into a thing: the stuff that does the flavoring.
- natural vs artificial
- legally just means source, not safety, differs
- vanilla flavoring
- often comes from beaver secretions, castoreum
- strawberry flavor
- can contain over 50 separate chemical compounds
- same molecule
- natural and artificial versions are often chemically identical