"Pure handmade, healthy yogurt", now the yogurt shop under this brand has been erected in various cities, and can even be competed with milk tea shops. At the same time, you must have a good taste; so when you see a yogurt with other taste, you will hear the word "natural flavor" when you ask the clerk. Such ingredients sound good, especially compared with another common and mysterious ingredient "artificial fragrance". But what exactly is natural fragrance? Xiaobian went to know it in depth. "Basically, if a thing is a natural fragrance, then it is a derivative of some kind of natural resources." Charles Platkin, director of the New York Food Policy Center of Hunter College, explained.
The US Food and Drug Administration defines "natural fragrance" as an extract of natural sources such as oil, resin or other natural sources from plants, meat or seafood. During the extraction of flavors, processing processes such as heating or fermentation will be used. The product function obtained is only seasoning, not adding any nutritional ingredients. "We often do this in cooking." Brucemattel, a senior vice dean of the American Culinary Institute of cooking art, said, "For example, I use water to boil shrimp. The next teaspoon of shrimp juice. "This essence can be added to different dishes. The food industry has completed a large -scale process -scientists find chemicals that can produce specific flavors in nature, extract it, and then add it to sugar, drinks, or other products. When consumers see the "natural fragrance" logo on the beverage label, they should not automatically think that someone puts the orange skin into the bottle, Mattel said. Even though natural flavors must be derived from natural, it does not need to come completely from plants or meat imitated by flavors.
For example, orange flavor may not only contain orange extracts, but also contains bark and grass extracts.
Experts believe that basically, natural flavors and artificial flavors are not very different. Chemists extract chemicals from natural ingredients to make natural flavors, and artificial flavors are the same chemicals, but they are just synthesized. Consumers may believe that products containing natural flavors are healthier, even if they are not different from artificial flavors in nutrition.
