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Why do fruit flavoured candies and drinks and such so rarely taste like the fruit they're trying to emulate? The only ones that come close are green apple, orange and lemon. The rest just taste like some arbitrary sweet shit they decided to call whichever fruit.
-Grape flavoured anything tastes nothing like actual grapes.
-Watermelon flavoured anything tastes nothing like actual watermelon.
-Mango flavoured things usually taste like cleaning solution.
And while I've heard they're supposedly real, I've never been able to get my hands on a 'Blue raspberry'.

Whats the thinking behind coming up with some arbitrary chemical flavour, and deciding to market it as 'Grape'.

>> No.10235172

>>10235148

Fake banana flavor tastes nothing like banana, but is goat. Praise 'murrica.

>> No.10235175

>>10235172
this and also artificial strawberry desu

>> No.10235188

>>10235175
I hate fake strawberry. Real strawberries are great, but strawberry flavoured things are just generically sweet. Its just one note, for lack of a better term. At least raspberry or cherry or whatever flavour typically has some tang to it.

>> No.10235194

>>10235188
kys moran

>> No.10235195

>>10235148
look up Zuko drink mix.

>> No.10235198

>>10235188
artificial strawberry flavouring is crushed dungbeetle shell. Enjoy your yoghurt, lads.

>> No.10235206

>>10235194
rude

>> No.10235218

>>10235148
flavor chemistry is a meme science