date:Apr 21, 2016
ificial flavor trends
Formulators increasingly are trending toward natural flavors whenever possible, as this supports the clean label trend. Interestingly, flavor is the only ingredient category to allow use of the descriptor natural on finished product labels.
The Food and Drug Administration disqualifies a number of ingredients from being perceived as natural by labeling them as artificial or synthetic in the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.). Only flavor may be called natural as long as