Best Artificial Fruit Flavor

depends on the candy, kinda want to say lemon because it's the one that *seems* the healthiest for reasons that are probably BS and also has less uncanny valley w/flavor since you don't actually eat real lemons

blue raspberry, cantaloupe and tamarind, but no blackcurrant?

peach

always amazed by how apple-y apple flavoured sweets are, even tho it's not my favourite fruit or my favourite sweet flavour. watermelon sort of does this trick too.

jolly ranchers kind of owns this. I love their apple flavor

grapefruit is the only one I prefer in its sweet artificial form to the masochism of eating an actual grapefruit

Write-in vote for pear. I loved pear drops as a child, mainly because of their artificial chemical taste. It was only as an adult that I realised they were called pear drops because were supposed to taste of pears.

WilliamC cites for me one of the top-tier artificial flavors. Japanese peach-flavored bubblegum tastes fucking awesome. other contenders for me are grape, banana, and sleeper candidate pineapple: Jarritos pineapple kicks ass

blue raspberry, cantaloupe and tamarind, but no blackcurrant?

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 8 January 2017 18:55 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah what

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/8f/23/48/8f234873c5141b930dc30a55bff20225.jpg

fake banana is the best

hb banana icecream is the best example of the genre

Fake banana halfpenny sweets tasted like real bananas that had been strained through a pair of pants.

i was overexposed to fake banana halfpenny chews as a kid and cannot go near any fake banana flavouring now

fake banana is the worst! I'd choke on a banana runt before allowing that fruit crime to touch my tongue

Oh Grape owns this. Think Welch's grape soda, grape jolly ranchers . . . It's like someone stumbled on a delicious artificial flavor and needed to connect it to a real fruit and chose grape arbitrarily

voted cherry. Feel like a basis for all of these can be formed with cherry and one other fundamental artificial fruit flavor. Maybe lemon.

grape probably gets my vote specifically because of grape soda & grape bubblegum but I will never understand you fake banana haters, that stuff rules

again I extend an apology to the blackcurrant lovers, afaik we don't really do blackcurrant stateside as a flavor

I might have voted grape if I'd remembered these, except I don't think their flavor is artificial --

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51D2sCcyFuL._SY355_.jpg

They are THE BEST.

Yeah, they're grape!

the only time i've had something that was like intentionally cantaloupe flavored it was bubble tea but it was so good i might vote for it

like i've had "melon" flavor but it's never tasted like anything in particular

watermelon is my go-to though

fake banana is the worst

I know this isn't true for people who grew up near tamarind trees, but tamarind, even when natural, kinda only exists as a flavor for me. Tamarind+sugar is undeniable, though.

Where's pear? Pear makes the best jelly beans.

blue raspberry is based off the actual fruit iirc

no lychee no credibility

pear jelly bellies are made with real fruit - i visited the jelly belly factory and can confirm

ultimately i voted guava on the strength of

https://i.imgur.com/E20AP6b.jpg

are the barf flavour made with real vomit

aren't blue raspberry and raspberry the same thing? i always assumed the blue was to distinguish it from strawberry and cherry

Grapermelon

Grape is underrated I think

https://i.imgur.com/ZGR3da1.jpg

blue raspberry is totally its own thing. have never had one but have long debated trying to grow some. whitebark raspberry is its other name.

this is fake banana (nerds) vs fake lemon (starburst etc)

Grape, easy.

blue raspberry is totally its own thing. have never had one but have long debated trying to grow some. whitebark raspberry is its other name.

― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, January 8, 2017 8:11 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mind literally blown

Fake banana is the best, I'm sorry if you disagree.

That said, I would add that I'd much rather eat watermelon-flavored candy than eat actual watermelon. That is an intensely good flavor.

Grape is interesting too, it's like nothing else in the natural world.

fake banana is so bad

Oh Grape owns this. Think Welch's grape soda, grape jolly ranchers . . . It's like someone stumbled on a delicious artificial flavor and needed to connect it to a real fruit and chose grape arbitrarily

― rip van wanko, Sunday, January 8, 2017 10:04 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the real fruit they taste like is concord grapes

As if

What fruit is Juicy Fruit?

rubber

I'd much rather eat watermelon-flavored candy than eat actual watermelon. That is an intensely good flavor.

Same here. I'm one of those weird people who doesn't really like watermelon, but I've always liked watermelon candy and watermelon gum. Dunno why. Think I'd have to vote pineapple though.

black currant

on the one hand, huge high five to you, Josefa, for your ranking of the artificial fruits

on the other hand, there is literally no food greater in this entire world than a ripe fresh cold watermelon on a hot day, all other foods are kind of a joke next to a great watermelon

on the third hand, I have so much love for the black currant people on this thread, they are a treat

on the other hand, there is literally no food greater in this entire world than a ripe fresh cold watermelon on a hot day, all other foods are kind of a joke next to a great watermelon

As someone allergic to watermelon, I say sit on it, Potsie. Also, fresh peaches are better. And slightly underripe cherry tomatoes eaten while u pick.

Do they still make peach/orange/lemon-flavored Jolly Ranchers? Because I look at this poll and it's basically "Jolly Ranchers: Classic or CLASSIC?"

btw I just went to the Jolly Rancher web site to see what flavors they still have and I think I've gone insane because that can't possibly say "a real hootenanny wing-dinger of a jubilee"

https://www.hersheys.com/jolly-rancher/en_us/products/fruity-bash.html

original draft "a real downer of a jubilee" apparently didn't pass muster.

You don't like cinnamon or black licorice? Those are pretty much my two favorite flavors in the whole world. Also, almond.

jackfruit is pretty good, i don't remember juicyfruit gum tasting like it though but i haven't had it since i was a kid

I have a Clockwork Orange type reaction to black licorice. Everyone I know likes it fine, for some reason it activates the puke center of my brain on first contact

Cinnamon is fine. But the thing with Jelly Bellies is, you want to combine the fruit flavors, cuz they're tiny. One cinnamon just ruins everything.

black licorice and olives are two things that ILX has convinced me to try that I really like now

Voted "lemon" on a "most tolerable" basis.

I voted for blueberry, which are almost always disappointing when I eat the real thing. I don't eat candy much anymore, so it's the baked goods I'm looking to. I did love Jolly Rancher grape and watermelon as a kid.

pineapple soda is god

fake lemon is the best of these

fake banana is the worst, can't stand basically anything banana flavored. Love real bananas though, eat one pretty much every day.

what about fake cheese, like they put in doritos and other stuff? That's another common junk food flavor I have a hard time with.

I guess cheese isn't a fruit, so off topic I suppose

blueberry, which are almost always disappointing when I eat the real thing.

lifetime ban

raspberries > blackberries > blueberries

I'd put blackberries ahead of raspberries.

I should point out that I'm in SoCal, so maybe I don't get good blueberries out here.

I have no idea where blueberries are more of a thing, but I grew up with them as mostly something you saw in muffins or whatever, whereas sitting around and eating raspberries is more normal? And strawberries are omnipresent for part of the year

I think the only blueberry plants I see for sale here are those that were bred to do well in warmer climates, so I don't doubt that any locally grown ones are sub par. The baskets I've bought in stores may be those local ones, or more likely imported from colder areas, but maybe the shipping, or picking early to ship easily, affects the flavor.

I had great blueberries in Vermont! My friends got married on a farm next door to a blueberry farm and the neighbors told them to take as many for the reception as they wanted. I probably ate more that weekend than ever before.

Late on this, but one of the few things I remember from Chemistry 101 ages ago is the professor talking about esters, and how certain ones are the characteristic thing that make some fruits taste the way they do.

Some lab isolated orange, for example, and realized they're some sort of polymer chain - so if you add another "link" with more carbon and hydrogen atoms, you get the flavor in banana, and add another one and you get lemon, etc. Somebody in the lab added some more links, following the same pattern, and ended up with a something that tasted like a fruit that had never existed, and that became Juicy Fruit gum.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/04/8c/13/048c137aff211f2e08d758266f7e8fe1.jpg

Two great British old skool sweet flavours missing from the list: pear and rhubarb.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i think i have maybe written somewhere else on ilx abt one of the things inflecting any decision about which is your favorite nut being 'how many do you want to eat', just as much as 'which tastes the nicest to you', by this metric cashews gathering real momentum over some more outre or expressive picks, cashews good throughout the whole process, consistent, where walnuts, hazelnuts, even pecans are losing steam despite their charm. & i think something similar is true of blueberries, where 'how nice is the blueberry compared to the raspberry' really mis-frames the question, the raspberry is sweeter, juicier, sociologists are watching infants reach for the raspberry, but so much of their satisfaction is in the restraint - it is so nice to sit & eat this kind of sixty-percent-intensity berry, subtly instead of brightly delicious, kind of ruminative, not all peak, & so to work through a chain of them, something less concretely confined to any sort of treat or sweet categories & so more open, & something small + (but for being expensive !) closer to maybe something like sunflower seeds in having less individual economic object value, One Blueberry much less commodifiable than a raspberry or especially a strawberry, somewhere between regular berries & grains of rice where the individual leans hard on society for meaning, is best understood as part of a group, a camera floating above a city of blueberries going about their business, too small to pick out. & that they are blue, too - this is definitely informing my image of sitting & eating blueberries & thinking - but that they are not just blue, & not even just-blue-but-secretly-green; i was just eating some & getting lost in that amazing red color, that they are secretly pomegranate-red, sometimes, this always apparent as a layer of paint visible through another, this burnished or rubbed deep rothko glowing red. definitely a time & a place to eat a lot of blueberries.

also those cute lil collars

i remember this great banana medicine, as a child, too. kind of a disarming context to encounter artificial fruit flavors tho so idk if i can rly extrapolate out.

iirc blueberries are red when they are green

they are mood berries

You guys are making me feel bad about liking artificial blueberry flavor.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

great poll. very revealing how poorly orange did; the candy magnates should take notice.

You don't like cinnamon or black licorice? Those are pretty much my two favorite flavors in the whole world. Also, almond.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB)

bitter almond is my favorite

the bitter taste is cumbersome imo

great poll. very revealing how poorly orange did; the candy magnates should take notice.

― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino)

orange is nobody's favorite, but does anybody hate orange? i don't. it's a solid fruit flavor. i'll take it over cherry or lemon or banana (unless it's laffy taffy in which case banana is the best).

love schlump

we get bad blueberries here that taste like greyberries tbh

can't believe banana beat lime, what a travesty

great poll in spite of banana's high showing. rushomancy otm re:orange, a flavor that may not be my favorite but is invariably good in just about every incarnation

thrilled for art-cher fans everywhere

Is it fair at this point to ask where coconut flavor figures in all of this?

Are you prepared for the answer to be "your mom"?

Where is lychee

And: peach was robbed

thank god no one voted cantaloupe

The Haribo fruit salad has an awesome artificial grapefruit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYBmVVuMIa0

best artificial flower flavour

schlump that long post was a stone classic, thank you

"sixty-percent-intensity berry" will stay with me whenever I eat blueberries. I want to poll the 4 permutations of liking brazil nuts and honeydew to make a case there.

The schlumpberries taste like schlumpberries!!

Suspect these people are idiots. maybe not.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/video/2016/jun/17/jelly-bean-flavour-is-it-all-in-the-eyes-video

Just had a grape Jolly Rancher for the first time, oh baby that's flavour.

Watermelon is also good.

Watermelon flavored vodka is far better than it has any business being.