Why Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?

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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateORIG Subscribe to Origin of Everything! http://bit.ly/originsub Where do artificial flavors come from? Well whether it’s your average store bought yogurt, granola bar, or even butter, a lot of food we eat today is full of artificial flavoring. Why did this happen? Well it actually has to do with the strange history of vanilla (yes! boring old vanilla) and the human perception of taste. How does it all work? Watch the episode to find out! Do you enjoy the show? The check us out on: Like our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pbsoriginofe... Instagram: @pbsoriginofeverything Written and Hosted By: Danielle Bainbridge Graphics By: Noelle Smith Directed By: Andrew Kornhaber Produced By: Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) History of fake flavors: Vanilla http://theplate.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/23/plain-vanilla/ http://www.businessinsider.com/how-is-artificial-vanilla-made-2016-5 https://voices.nationalgeographic.org/2013/10/01/beaver-butts-emit-goo-used-for-vanilla-flavoring/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17365147 https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i36/problem-vanilla.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bittersweet-story-vanilla-180962757/ http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/23/291525991/when-vanilla-was-brown-and-how-we-came-to-see-it-as-white https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/25/vanilla-comes-from_n_5021060.

Published 2017-12-05 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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