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.” ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...