05/08/2024
Have you ever wondered where artificial raspberry, vanilla or strawberry flavor comes from? These are the dried perineal glands of the beaver. They contain castoreum, a food additive usually listed as ‘natural flavoring’ in the ingredient list. Castoreum is the exudate from the castor sacs of the mature North American Beaver. It is a yellowish secretion in combination with the beaver’s urine, used during scent marking of territory. They also use pig secretion near the re**um for this same flavoring. In the USA, castoreum as a food additive is considered by the FDA to be generally recognized as safe, often referenced simply as a “natural flavoring” in products’ lists of ingredients. It can be used in both foods and beverages as a vanilla, raspberry and strawberry flavoring.
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