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The same vanilla flavor can clear one grocer's ingredient review and get turned away by the next, without a single change to the formula. "Clean label natural vanilla flavor." That line on a supplier spec has no legal definition behind ...

Coffee kept on the warmer stops smelling fresh long before anyone pours the last cup. Most of that roasty aroma is still in the pot, bound to the coffee itself. The smell of fresh brew comes largely from 2-furfurylthiol, a ...

On Monday, October 26, the Aromatech US team gathered in our Orlando break room, decorated in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Everyone received a pink ribbon pin and a flower, and we took a moment to talk about screenings. ...

Since July 1, a bag of BBQ chips placed on the EU market can no longer get its smoke from the smoke flavourings Europe used to authorize. In the US, the same bag still can. The EU did not renew ...

Add MSG to a soup, file it under "natural flavor," and the label is misbranded. "Flavor enhancer," "flavor modifier," "flavor booster." On a supplier sheet the three read as synonyms, yet each one leads to a different ingredient statement. A ...

Two people can taste the same raspberry juice and describe two different drinks. One gets violets. The other gets something sour, soapy, a little chemical. Both had the same sample at the same dose, and the difference sits in one ...