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I actually trust the 'natural flavors' label now after a weird week
Last Tuesday I grabbed a cheap lemonade bottle that said 'natural flavors' and expected junk. But the taste was just clean lemon, no weird aftertaste. I checked the ingredients and it was literally just water, sugar, and lemon oil. I think sometimes that label gets a bad rap when it's just a simple extract. Has anyone else found a product where 'natural flavors' actually meant something good?
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robertcarr21h agoMost Upvoted
Your lemonade find is lucky. Most times "natural flavors" hides stuff like castoreum from beaver glands or seaweed extract. They can legally call that natural. My orange soda said natural flavors but the ingredient list had five different chemical extracts. The label is a catch-all for cheap flavor science, not simple stuff.
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the_olivia19h ago
Actually castoreum is SUPER rare in food now, it's mostly in perfumes. But yeah "natural flavors" can still be a sneaky term for sure.
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