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Natural Flavours
essential oils | herbal extracts | natural flavours | natural fragrance | natural pesticides oil |
perfume compounds
Life without natural flavor is no more natural.
Flavor is of two types: natural and artificial. Human beings
are animals with five senses.
They are sight, smell, taste, hearing, and
touch. Human beings are believed to see with the mind in some
way. This ability is known as sixth sense. Flavor is generally
perceived by both nose and tongue in the form of smell and
taste.
Food can be naturally or artificially flavored.
Food's flavor is initially determined by the smell, as smell
comes before taste.
Flavor perceived through nose is abstract,
and limitless, while the flavor perceived through tongue can
be described as sweet, salty, sour, spicy, hot and so on.
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Smell flavor can be altered without altering the
taste or the flavor of taste.
Right from our childhood, we are taught that natural
substances and foods are highly good for health. This belief is
induced to us both at school and home. This belief makes us check
for either the natural flavors labels or no artificial flavors ones
on all the readily available food substances that we purchase from
outside.
The natural flavoring does not have or have
very less nutritional value in the food substances we eat,
and need not be healthier than the artificial ones. Not many
of us know what natural flavor is.
Essential oils, oleoresin, protein hydrolysate,
distillate are natural flavors.
Even any product of heating, roasting, or
enzymolysis containing flavor agents that are taken from spices,
fruits or fruit juices, dairy products, leaf or similar plant
material like pulp of the stem, bud, root, or fermentation
products that can add flavor to your food than nutrition falls
under the category of natural flavors.
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We should understand that sometimes, even the natural
foods are poisonous in nature. For example, when you extract benzaldehyde
from apricot pits and peach, it contains the deadly poison, hydrogen
cyanide.
However, when the same benzaldehyde is prepared
from clove and amyl acetate mixing, there is no cyanide trace in
it. There is no big difference between artificial or natural flavor.
Few manufacturing units manufacture both flavors together.
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