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They never say what the “natural flavor” is.

A reminder that “natural flavor” doesn’t mean healthier or even something you might want over the artificially created flavors. It just means it comes from a natural source and is not lab created.

Castoreum, sometimes used for vanilla and raspberry flavoring, comes from beaver anal secretions. That would be labelled under a “natural flavor” and you’d never be told more than that.

I’ll take the artificial stuff any day just on principle there.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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Hobo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I think it’s worth pointing out that vanilla extract is from vanilla beans and artificial vanilla is whatever the fuck they feel like that tastes like vanilla. Also, modern artificial vanilla extremelt rarely, if ever, is derived from Castoreum cause it’s hard as hell to farm beavers and expensive as all fuck. The “artificial vanilla comes from beaver anal glands” is basically a prevalent internet myth that gets passed around like the, “You eat 7 spiders a year in your sleep.” myth.

Source: smithsonianmag.com/…/does-vanilla-flavoring-actua…

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- iopq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Incorrect, vanillin is the primary component of real vanilla beans and responsible for like 90% of the flavor.
  
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  - Hobo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I don’t understand what this would be correcting in what I said above. Can you show me what part this is correcting? Cause I’m legitimately confused.
    
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    iopq@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You said artificial vanilla is whatever the fuck. It’s not, artificial vanilla is the main ingredient of natural vanilla, but without the other flavors
    
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tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It would have cost you nothing to not write this.

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- tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Maybe he wouldn’t have lost anything, but I wouldn’t have been able to enjoy his comment.
  
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MBech@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Also, poop has natural flavour. Natural flavour also doesn’t mean it tastes good.

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- SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Spoken like someone who’s never ate shit.
  
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  - NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You’re not going to catch me out with this one again!
    
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    dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Billions of flies can’t be wrong!!
    
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- blargle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Get your Synthetic poop flavour here!
  
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qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Myth. Vanilla extracts either come from low grade vanilla pods or cloves. It may have been but not today.

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MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Mmmm, I like licking beaver butt. 😉

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elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
My ex wife’s uncle was the director of the south American division of the arm that made coloring and flavorings of one of the big Food/Chem groups, Procter & Gamble, or unilever, or one of those. Can’t remember.

No one in his household ate any processed/ultra processed foods.

Do the math.

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nurple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Fuck man I had no idea, I’ve missed out on my prime years of eating beaver anal secretions 😭

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- ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  They can still be your prime years in terms of quantity of beaver ass eaten, if not in quality. But I think you sell yourself short. They’re gonna love you!
  
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