Best Artificial Fruit Flavor

It is likely that the chemical used for flavoring is isoamyl acetate (sometimes known as banana oil), a carboxylic ester.[5]

whoa

the artificiality of it was a selling point in its heyday fwiw

http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/juicy-fruit.png

i reluctantly retract my banana bashing

That said, with a little digging, you’ll find that, in the past, Wrigley has explicitly said that Juicy Fruit contains notes of “lemon, orange, pineapple and banana” in response to emails from curious customers asking for more specific information about Juicy Fruit’s flavour

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/03/fruit-juicy-fruit/

is Jackfruit good? It sounds good

it's tacos

I am outing myself as somebody who liked the way the fluoride treatments tasted

disgusting savages itt

best to quietly withdraw one's vote and exit the thread after such an admission

maybe issue an apology through ilx publicist Hungry4Ass an hour before poll close

What?! No Sharkleberry?!

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I see the challopsy fav. Durian isn't on the list either!
what a joke! (Voted Blue Raspberry)

"sharkleberry fin" sounds like the worst hanna-barbera character ever

I can already imagine the Snorks crossover episode.

is Jackfruit good? It sounds good

― Number None, Monday, January 9, 2017 4:12 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's tacos

― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, January 9, 2017 4:13 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol that was exactly what i immediately thought

Many years ago in college organic chemistry lab we had to synthesize isopentyl acetate (fake banana oil) and it ruined me on banana flavor, including that of actual bananas, for years. I still hate artificial banana flavored stuff and will only grudgingly eat an actual banana.

sharkleberry fin is no ecto cooler

the floor of the Well of Souls is teeming with banana runts

I wonder what my banana-allergic friend thinks of fake banana flavor

now that i've mentioning him I remembered the last time he accidentally had a smoothie with banana in it. vomited so hard he blew up a vein in his eye and it had a big red blotch.

blewberry

pretty sure 'actual banana' taste has changed over the 40 years of my awareness

I see the challopsy fav. Durian isn't on the list either!
what a joke!

― Frobisher

^^ (artificial durian flavour gets around the "no durian allowed on board this train/in this mall" hassles actual durian engenders)

artifical feijoa is the best but probably not found outside of nz.

had no idea blackcurrant was prohibited in the US for a century or so due to fear of spreading blight. huh.

Is that like feijoada

artificial feydrautha

https://needleandi.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/feijoa_2.jpg
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0225/5397/products/sour_feijoa_3591947239150236501_large.jpg?v=1456350510

the fact you can no longer get Jolly Ranchers in every shop in the UK like you could ten years ago is a fucking disgrace.

I could vote for any of these depending on the type of food being flavoured. Lemon and watermelon ice-cream is the food of gods. I've spent my whole life trying to find a sweet that I don't like and it's still to happen.

voted apple but really like faux pear

can I take this thread to complain that I cannot tell the difference between Grape and Black Licorice Jelly Bellies, and that Black Licorice to me tastes fucking awful, while the Graphs are delicious. ditto for Cherry and Cinnamon but I can stand the Cinnamon ones. someone ought to do something about this.

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