Have you ever wondered where artificial raspberry, vanilla or strawberry flavor comes from? These are the dried perineal (anal) glands of the beaver. They contain castoreum — a food additive usually listed as natural flavoring in the ingredient list. Castoreum is the exudate from the castor sacs of the mature North American Beaver, it is a yellowish secretion in combination with the beavers urine, used during scent marking of territory. In the USA, castoreum as a food additive is considered by the FDA to be generally recognized as safe, often referenced simply as a natural flavoring in products lists of ingredients.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 05:14:09 +0000
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