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The Sweet Taste of Success

Questions and Answers:

1. How does artificial honey flavor helps in food products?
 * Artificial honey flavor carries the honey flavor but it only used up a small amount of pure honey. However, a mixture of real honey and honey flavor can taste more like honey than pure honey does.

2. Where does the 'vanillin' flavor come from?
 * 'Vanillin' flavor is a naturally occurring constituent of the vanilla pod.

3. What is caramel?
 * Caramel is the result of applying heat to sucrose above its melting point that catalyzes the reaction of caramelization. Sugar breakdown products create a mixture of aldehydes, ketones and furanones. These can be characterized as caramel-like, sweet, fruity, butterscotch, nutty or burnt, and are the backbone of the caramel flavor.