I read an interview with you, you were asked, do you have any quirky pleasures?

And you said, I love the smell of kitten pee because it reminds me of black current. of then it's not so nice. There are certain notes that you might smell but yes you know it's I like

very strong solfry notes so there are certain kind of animalic notes that are really interesting.

It occurs to me that you probably smell and taste foods in a way that's different from most people.

Yeah, probably.

Because most people, if they go to change their cat's litter box are not like, mmm, black current.

No, they don't.

But I tend to keep those thoughts to myself. I don't want to be locked up for being

quirky. lucky. Foodies, it's for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman. Each week on our show we obsess about food to learn more about people.

Now a while back we did an episode on Seltzer and the science of carbonation.

And one thing that came up that we couldn't get too deep into in that one is a mystery ingredient that a lot of

seltzers contain.

In fact, a ton of foods and drinks have this ingredient listed on our

labels.

What is it?

Natural Flavors. When Natural Flavors came up in the

Selzer episode, we had questions. One of our guests in that episode was

Travis Larchuck, co-host of the podcast Celzer Death Match.

I asked him if we could track down a flavorist, a person who makes natural flavors, what

would you want to know?

She's got to tell us what the natural flavors are, because nobody is talking about it why is it such a secret what are you afraid of and that my friends is what we're here to find out today

It's true the work of flavorists often takes place behind closed doors.

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