Well while I was taking a sip of tropicana juice, my eyes were stuck at the juice can which said "Contains permitted natural colur and added flavor(Natural orange flavoring substances)". So I just searched for the term "Nature Identical flavoring substances" and here is what all I found:
There are three types of flavorings used in foods:
- Natural flavoring substances: Flavoring substances obtained from plant or animal raw materials, by physical, microbiological or enzymatic processes. They can be either used in their natural state or processed for human consumption, but cannot contain any nature-identical or artificial flavoring substances.
- Nature-identical flavoring substances: Flavoring substances that are obtained by synthesis or isolated through chemical processes, which are chemically identical to flavoring substances naturally present in products intended for human consumption. They cannot contain any artificial flavoring substances.
- Artificial flavoring substances: Flavoring substances not identified in a natural product intended for human consumption, whether or not the product is processed
(Thanks to Wikipedia I could find this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor)
Hope next time if you happen to read this on an eatable, you will perfectly understand what these terms are all about.
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