What does Natural Flavorings mean?

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While we are on the subject of preservatives, there are a number of products on the market that have added "natural Flavorings" "natural Flavor". Did you ever wonder what that is all about? Do they have a big vat of natural flavorings in their factory and put it in their so called Natural products, did you know that natural flavors are not so natural?For me this is a big problem. I see in most packaged food this is added, even in celestial teas. Even in health foods prepackaged foods, so they are adding MSG to our foods unknowingly to the public in which the people purposely go to the health food store to avoid such additives, NO? I know I do, but then they got to cut their products to cheapen it, and also make you want to eat more of it, so they use "Natural Flavors".http://www.sellingsalesmanship.com/natural.htmlood Additives Called -Natural Flavors;Definition of(Note: The following information about natural food additives is provided on this website as a public service.)Title 21, Section 101, part 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations defines natural flavorings & flavors as follows:The term natural flavor or natural flavoring means the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is

flavoring rather than nutritional.Under current regulations, food manufacturers can obscure a variety of products – including derivatives of meat, poultry, seafood, dairy products, and nuts – under the guise of "natural flavoring.""Natural" does not mean it is not a harmful food additive. "Natural" only means that the natural flavor ingredient originated from a natural source. For example, "natural" can mean a type of food additive such as MSG which has been found to be a dangerous food additive ingredient for many of the people who consume this so-called natural additive.For more information about MSG, a common food additive and one of many on the food additive list, please see Hidden Sources of MSG.To learn how food flavor additives are developed please see the excellent

article on food additive processing, Flavor Development, by Ann Przybyla Wilkes athttp://www.foodproductdesign.com/archive/1992/0992CS.html.If you wish to E-mail this page to someone, here is the web address:http://www.sellingsalesmanship.com/natural.html