Children like artificial flavors more than the real one. When flavourists make additives for adult foods, they try to copy the nature as it is. If they create additives for kids’ foods, they generally increase the sweetness.



There is much difference in terms of the number of ingredients in home made strawberry milkshake, Fast food strawberry milk shake and an artificial strawberry milkshake. Home made strawberry milkshake contains the ingredients like ice, cream, strawberries, sugar and a touch of vanilla.



The ingredients in a fast-food strawberry milkshake are milk fat and nonfat milk, sugar, sweet whey, high-fructose corn syrup, guar gum, monoglycerides and diglycerides, cellulose gum, sodium phosphate, carrageenan, citric acid, E129 and artificial strawberry flavour.



And an artificial strawberry flavour contains 59 ingredients. Just have a look.



amyl acetate, amyl butyrate, amyl valerate, anethol, anisyl formate, benzyl acetate, benzyl isobutyrate, butyric acid, cinnamyl isobutyrate, cinnamyl valerate, cognac essential oil, diacetyl, dipropyl ketone, ethyl butyrate, ethyl cinnamate, ethyl heptanoate, ethyl heptylate, ethyl lactate, ethyl methylphenylglycidate, ethyl nitrate, ethyl propionate, ethyl valerate, heliotropin, hydroxyphrenyl- 2-butanone, ionone, isobutyl anthranilate, isobutyl butyrate, lemon essential oil, maltol, 4-methylacetophenone, methyl anthranilate, methyl benzoate, methyl cinnamate, methyl heptine carbonate, methyl naphthyl ketone, methyl salicylate, mint essential oil, neroli essential oil, nerolin, neryl isobutyrate, orris butter, phenethyl alcohol, rose, rum ether, undecalactone, vanillin and solvent.



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