Where did "watermelon" flavor come from? (Because it sure as hell doesn't taste like watermelon.)
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October 31st, 2008
If someone were to give you a watermelon flavored Jolly Rancher, but didn’t tell you what flavor it was, you would probably be able to identify the “flavor” as soon as you put it in your mouth. “Watermelon flavor” is fairly standard, but does it taste anything like a watermelon? No, it doesn’t.
And it’s the same thing with cherry, or banana, or grape, or most anything else.
How did candy companies originally decide that certain flavors would represent certain fruits, even though they taste nothing like each other?
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Banana is the same way. That being said i LOVE banana flavored stuff.
Yeah! And blueberry too!!
It is weird, isn’t it? I hope someone knows the answer to this! It’s the same way with some fragrances, too.
I just tried a watermelon jelly belly and it tasted like dubble bubble to me, I hope the magic isn’t gone forever.
I suspect study groups determine most flavors.
There are companies, like International Flavours and Fragrances, that produce near identical flavours, but costs are high and only used in high end products and manufactured in custom orders.
The mass market manufacturers use a “close enough for the price point” concept.
Most of the mass market flavours have some passing, if fleeting, resemblance to the intended flavour, but watermelon? I can’t even figure out how they got that one.
that is very true. and funny, because earlier I was at my towns halloween parade and they were throwing candy. my friend got some watermelon now & laters and decided somehow that those are his life calling.. haha
Nothing really tastes like it’s original fruit flavor. But, all of the fake fruit flavors taste alike. So watermelon Now and Laters don’t taste like watermelon but they sure do taste like very other watermelon candy on the market.
Flavor companies use the chemicals that characterize the original fruit, and they create a flavor that exaggerates it in order to make it more appealing. If people had a candy that tasted just like a watermelon, it would be bland, and not that flavorful. Plus, if you wanted watermelon taste, you could judt choose to eat a watermelon.
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