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"Nature-identical." It's on the regulatory line of a European spec sheet somewhere in your supplier folder. Most people move past it. A nature-identical flavor molecule is made by chemical synthesis and is the same molecule you would find in nature. ...

America's 2026 flavor of the year spent half a century as contraband. Growing black currants was federally banned from 1911 to 1966 to protect pine timber, and some state bans outlived the millennium. McCormick just crowned it Flavor of the ...

"Category I saffron, ISO 3632." That line on a certificate of analysis is doing less work than most buyers think. Here is what it certifies. A lab dissolved dried stigmas in water at 1%, ran the solution through a spectrophotometer, ...

Half the world tastes candy here. The other half tastes a muscle rub. Wintergreen gum, root beer, birch beer. In the US this reads sweet, cold and nostalgic. Put the same sample in front of a European panel and you ...

"Artificial Flavor." It appears in the ingredient statement right after the sugar, and most people read it as a warning. Here is the claim: the vanillin in an artificial vanilla flavor and the vanillin in a natural one are the ...

The same 15 parts per million that define one product will get another one written up as a defect. Yogurt's entire identity rides on one small molecule. The same molecule is beer's most infamous defect and bottled water's oldest complaint. ...