Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus <=-

The line between natural flavor and artificial
flavor can be kind of blurry as well.

A "natural flavor" merely means that it originated from a natural
organic (in the chemical sense of the word) source. It can go
through a number of processes to become isolated and purified from
the other ingredients in the source material. So that covers
essential oils, oleoresins, essences, extracts and distillates etc.
derived from a spice, herb, fruit, vegetable, bark, flower, root, leaf
or other plant material as well as meat, seafood, eggs, dairy
foods and fermentation products. Vinegar made from bacterial
action on vodka diluted with water, after the vodka was distilled
from fermented potato mash qualifies despite the number of
intermediate chemical reactions and physical processes applied.

But vinegar made from diluting glacial ascetic acid manufactured
from methanol and carbon monoxide in the presence of a catalyst (the
usual for reagent grade lab acid) would not.

A better example might be vanilla extract is natural but vanillin
made from petrochemical precursors is not (even though petroleum
comes from the natural decomposition of organic dinosaurs with heat
and pressure subsequently applied).

An artificial flavour is manufactured completely or partially from
chemicals that weren't derived from a natural source.

Having said that a so-called natural flavour can sound very
artificial to a layman (just like you said at the outset.)

Another pink rum drink ....

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Title: Bahama Breeze
Categories: Alcohol, Beverages, Fruit
Yield: 1 serving

1 oz Rum, dark
1/2 oz Liqueur, banana
1/2 oz Liqueur, apricot
1/2 oz Rum, coconut
1/4 oz Grenadine
1/4 oz Honey
1/2 oz Juice, lemon
1 oz Juice, orange
1 oz Juice, pineapple

Blend well with a couple ice cubes. Pour over ice in tall glass.
Garnish with orange, cherry, etc.

From the bartender at a hotel on Elbow Cay in the Bahamas years ago.

Posted on GEnie by Fred ST.JOHN, Nov 27, 1991

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Cheers

Jim


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