Our good friend the Food Babe has published an interesting piece of pseudoscience writing entitled โAre Natural Flavors Really That Bad? (MUST WATCH)โ. If youโre looking for the quick answer to this superfluous, click-bait title, let me tell you that itโs no: natural flavours are perfectly safe and healthy. But if youโre looking for an explanation of how taste actually works (and why her claims about natural flavours are utter nonsense), then please read on!
Vani Hari bases her distaste for natural flavours off the idea that โflavor in nature doesnโt come without nutrition.โ Regrettably Iโm here to tell her that this is unequivocally false.
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[F]lavours are just the result of chemistry, things that are good for us do taste good, sort of, but not because of their nutrient content, and no one thinks that gummy bears are healthy just because they taste kind of like fruit.Share this article
So instead of asking yourself,ย โDid someone engineer this to be delicious or did nature engineer this to be deliciousโ, as Hari advises, I think Iโd rather contemplate why it is Iโd be taking diet advice from a blogger without a science degree.
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