DR. FRANKESTEIN´S LAB: ARTIFICIAL STRAWBERRY FLAVOUR

By Salvatore Scimino
August 1, 2013

Source: ifood.tv

It is said that after WWI, the United States came out as the number one power in the world. 

So powerful this nation became that one day its filthy rich entrepreneurial class, which had benefited a great deal from the conflagration, decided to take over the world.

"American" investors invaded the world. A bunch of these businessmen came to Germany a few years before 1939 with the idea of buying out every business there. 

The Germans said no to their proposition, so the "Americans" said:

- So, you don´t want to sell your factories to us, we will then declare you the war!

And they did.

WWII came and the "Americans" got richer and more powerful. The fuel of wars is economics.

Out of Germany, "Americans" came out with lots of brand new ideas that had not occurred to them before.

 

They transplanted Hitler´s highway system into the United States, for instance. They even took home with them the Gestapo establishment and turned it into the CIA. 

Without Germany´s rocket technology, "Americans" would have never gotten to the Moon, if such a thing ever happened.

Their junk food industry took off.

The list of high tech they "stole" is endless.

The United States´ technological and military-industrial complex became germanised from top to bottom.

The perfume industry, the basis for flavour additives, was uprooted from Europe and planted in New York City soil. It underwent a transformation until it became the American flavour industry which has prospered and grown out of proportion.

Today much of what people look for in food really boils down to artificial flavours carefully and secretly designed in the laboratory. Such secrets are not even disclosed to the FDA. 

The days of really natural flavours are long gone. We are already living in a Franken-world.

Thus, if your nose and taste buds are telling you that your drink smells and tastes like natural strawberries, you have been had.

According to Schlosser (2002), a typical artificial strawberry flavor, as found in the famous strawberry milk shakes, contains the following ingredients:

• amylacetate,
• amyl butyrate,
• amyl valerate,
• anethol,
• anisyl formate,
• benzyl acetate,
• benzyl isobutyrate,
• butyric acid,
• cinnamyl isobutyrate,
• cinnamyl valerate,
• cognac essential oil,
• diacetyl,
• dipropyl ketone,
• ethyl acetate,
• ethyl amyl ketone,
• ethyl butyrate,
• ethyl cinnamate,
• ethyl heptanoate,
• ethyl heptylate,
• ethyl lactate,
• ethyl methylphenyl-glycidate,
• ethyl nitrate,
• ethyl propionate,
• ethyl valerate,
• heliotropin,
• hydroxyphenyl-2-butanone (10 percent solution in alcohol), 
• α-ionone,
• isobutyl anthranilate,
• isobutyl butyrate,
• lemon essential oil,
• maltol, 
• 4-methylacetophenone,
• methyl anthranilate,
• methyl benzoate,
• methyl cinnamate,
• methyl heptine carbonate,
• methyl naphthyl ketone,
• methyl salicylate,
• mint essential oil,
• neroli essential oil,
• nerolin,
• neryl isobutyrate,
• orris butter,
• phenethyl alcohol,
• rose,
• rum ether,
• γ-undecalactone,
• vanillin,
• and solvent. 

So, are you still wondering why your head and bones ache, why you piss deep dark yellow, why you are so short tempered or why you are so sick?

If you want to stay healthier whilst you last under the Sun, you´d better watch out what kind of food you put into your mouth!

References

Schlosser E. (2002). Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World. Penguin Books Ltd., Lodon, UK. 164 p.