Natural flavors come from a substance found in nature, but that's just the start. ... Things like beaver castor sacs and a long list of chemicals, or natural flavor?

While it’s possible to use beaver gland secretions to make vanilla flavoring, it's an expensive process and not what you'll find in the grocery store.

Next time you pick up a vanilla candy, think twice. A chemical compound used in vanilla flavored foods and scents comes from the butt of a beaver.

But castoreum (the vanilla flavor from beaver butts) and Natural Red 4 (red dye from squashed scale insects) are good checks on our visceral reactions to words like “natural” and “artificial.” ...

Natural flavoring in vanilla ice cream can be made with castoreum, a substance derived from beaver anal glands, for example, said Boyd, but consumers would have no way of knowing this from the label.

Beaver castoreum has a sort of sweet, vanilla-y flavor with a fruity finish, which makes it a perfect addition to lots of different foods, perfumes, and, of course, spirits — like the Swedish ...

Leave it to Beaver Beans, jelly beans that start with a base flavor of vanilla or raspberry and then build from there. Variations might include Buttnilla Wafer, available by the sac, of course.

The problem Lefferts says, is that flavors are not real food. “The main reason to be concerned about flavors, whether they are natural or artificial, is that when they are in there, you can be ...

While it’s possible to use beaver gland secretions to make vanilla flavoring, it's an expensive process and not what you'll find in the grocery store.