What are natural flavorings?
Ingredients such as ginger, black pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, celery powder, and garlic oil may be listed as Natural Flavorings. They may be designated as “natural flavors” because they are substances used chiefly for flavor. They do not make a nutritional contribution, are not derived from an animal species, and there are no health concerns linked to them. Freirich uses the term Natural Flavorings on its ingredient labels to protect the trade secrets that make Freirich meats so tasty.
Natural Flavors or Flavorings is an umbrella term for many different things and can be quite misleading. Natural Flavorings can be an essential oil, an extract, aroma/ aromatic oil, flavor oil, essence or any product that has been made in a laboratory using natural chemicals from a plant. The exact definition of natural flavorings & flavors from Title 21, Section 101, part 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations is as follows: “The term natural flavor or natural flavoring means the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional.
