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Let's talk about natural flavors.

Sometimes people think that natural flavors mean vegan.

No, they don't.

Let's differentiate natural flavors versus artificial flavoring.

So the question is, how do they make flavoring taste like something and keep it natural?

Well, they use the essence of something.

They might use a spice, some extract, fruit, fruit juice, veggie juice, edible yeast, herbs, bark, buds of plants, roots of plants, leaves of plants. But they also use meat, seafood, poultry,

and egg. That's right. So when you have a plant-based veggie burger, how do you think they get it

to taste like a burger? Well, this is how they do it. They use animal products.

I just wanted to bring this to your attention if you think that it's completely vegan. Well,

usually it's not. Now personally, I don't have a problem with that because I'm not a vegan,

but what I want to do is to raise awareness on the difference between natural

flavors versus artificial flavoring. Artificial flavoring has to do with synthetic chemicals

that could be coming from petroleum or other chemicals. The molecules are similar, but they're

definitely not the same. Now, here's another point that I want to bring up that

because I produce certain supplements that require flavoring, there's one thing that a lot of people don't realize.

When you have dry flavors compared to liquid, you have to use various carriers to make them dry. Okay. And the most common carrier

is multodextrin, which is the highest thing on the glycemic index. It is way higher than pure

glucose. Okay. Glucose is like 100. Multidextrin, I think is like 120. It can be even more. So it's,

it's not keto-friendly, but they use that in the flavors. So I just wanted to bring that to your

attention. All my products do not use multidextrin. We use a different carrier. I think it's

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