Ingredient Information

Function

Natural lemon flavor is a very acidic citric flavoring; this food additive can create, enhance and intensify the zesty flavor of lemon in food and beverages, especially in juices, liquors and other beverages. Foods like sweets and fruity baked goods can contain natural lemon flavoring. Some seasonings may also contain natural lemon flavor. It is a flavoring agent that produces the citric acid aromatic flavor characteristic of lemon in beverages and foods that have lost their flavor due to processing and it also adds the flavor to foods in which this very acid and zesty flavor is desired.

Other Use and Industries

NONE KNOWN

Health Effects

A Natural flavor is considered safe for human consumption, since it’s not intended for nutritional purpose it doesn’t have beneficial health effects, its function is to add flavor and since it comes from an organic matter or natural material it is regarded as safe.

Origins

Natural lemon flavor can be made from the extraction of the fruits essential oils (when extracted from real lemons it’s also called “lemon essence”), it can also be made from the castoreum, a yellow substance produced by the beaver's castor sac. Natural lemon flavor can be also made by mixing chemicals that come from a natural source in order chemically produce the flavor.

A flavor ingredient is considered natural when it is a natural oil, essence, extractive, oleoresin or protein hydrolysate that has been obtained by roasting, heating or enzymolysis of an organic material such as a vegetable, vegetable juice, fruit, fruit juice, spice, edible yeast, herb, bark, root, bulk, leaf or similar plant material, meat, pork, poultry, eggs, dairy products, fermentation products or any other which intention in food is flavoring rather than nutritional. A Natural flavoring can go from a dozen to several hundreds components depending on the source or laboratory manufacturing method.