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What Flavor Is Sunkist Soda?
What Sunkist soda tastes like, who owns the name, how much caffeine it has, how it compares with Fanta, and what goes into building a caffeinated orange soda.
November 6, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is the Purple Skittle?
What the purple Skittle tastes like in the US and the UK, why American grape candy tastes of Concord grape, and the story of the lime and green apple swap.
November 6, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Vernors?
What Vernors tastes like, why its vanilla and ginger differ from a dry ginger ale, what the oak-barrel story would mean, and how to build a golden ginger ale.
November 6, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Pibb Xtra?
What Pibb Xtra (sold as Mr. Pibb again) tastes like, how its spicy cherry differs from Dr Pepper, and how to build a spiced cherry soda with the heat in check.
November 4, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Sprite?
What Sprite tastes like, which compounds make lemon-lime, why a clear soda needs a different citrus build, and what goes wrong with citrus in acid and light.
November 4, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is the Mystery Dum Dum?
What the Mystery Dum Dum tastes like, what Spangler has said about how it is made, why changeover candy exists, and what it means if you run a hard candy line.
November 4, 2026 · 4 min
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Birthday Cake Flavor
What birthday cake flavor is made of, how it differs from yellow cake and vanilla, where it came from, and how to build it into ice cream, protein and candy.
November 3, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is the Pink Starburst?
What the pink Starburst tastes like, what the official flavor is, why strawberry ends up pink, and how to build a strawberry fruit chew that reads the same way.
November 3, 2026 · 4 min
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Anise vs Licorice: What Is the Difference?
The difference between anise and licorice, with fennel and star anise, from anethole and glycyrrhizin to why black licorice candy tastes of anise and the rules on glycyrrhizin.
November 2, 2026 · 4 min
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Fruit Punch Flavor
What fruit punch flavor tastes like, which fruits usually lead it, how brands and suppliers build it differently, and the emulsion, color and juice-labeling rules that matter.
November 2, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Juicy Fruit?
What Juicy Fruit gum tastes like, what Wrigley has and has not said about the fruits, why people compare it to jackfruit, and how to build a fruit gum-type flavor.
October 30, 2026 · 3 min
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Cream Soda Flavor
What cream soda flavor is, why it tastes creamy without dairy, the role of foam, red versus clear cream soda, Australian and New Zealand creaming soda, and how to build it.
October 29, 2026 · 3 min
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What Does Jägermeister Taste Like?
What Jägermeister tastes like, what is and is not known about its 56 herbs, roots and spices, and how herbal-liqueur-type flavors are built for RTDs and non-alcoholic drinks.
October 29, 2026 · 3 min
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Butterscotch vs Caramel: What Is the Difference?
The difference between butterscotch, caramel and toffee, from the sugar and cook temperature to the compounds behind each taste, and how flavor houses build them.
October 28, 2026 · 4 min
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What Is Malt Flavor?
What malt flavor is, which compounds make barley malt taste malty, diastatic versus non-diastatic malt powder, and how malt works in shakes, candy, bakery and malt drinks.
October 28, 2026 · 3 min
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What Does Campari Taste Like?
What Campari tastes like, what is and is not known about its secret recipe, and how to build a bitter orange aperitivo flavor for non-alcoholic spritzes and RTDs.
October 27, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Cotton Candy?
What cotton candy tastes like, why ethyl maltol is the core of cotton candy flavor, how floss is flavored and colored, and what goes wrong in products.
October 27, 2026 · 3 min
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What Is Sarsaparilla?
What sarsaparilla is, how the Smilax root itself tastes, why sarsaparilla soda tastes of wintergreen, licorice and vanilla, and how it relates to root beer.
October 27, 2026 · 3 min
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Bubblegum Flavor
What bubblegum flavor is made of, the fruit, spice and compounds behind it, where it came from, and how to use it outside chewing gum.
October 26, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Yellow Cake?
What yellow cake tastes like, where the butter, vanilla, egg and baked notes come from, how box mixes differ, and how to use the flavor in unbaked products.
October 26, 2026 · 3 min
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Root Beer Flavor
What root beer tastes like and why, from sassafras and the 1960 safrole ban to wintergreen, vanilla and licorice, and how to build a root beer flavor today.
October 23, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Amaretto?
What amaretto tastes like, why benzaldehyde makes apricot kernels taste of almond, and how to build amaretto flavor for creamers and bakery without liqueur.
October 23, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Coke?
What Coca-Cola tastes like, how it differs from Pepsi, what the company has and has not disclosed, and what that means if you are building a cola-type flavor.
October 23, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Big Red?
What Big Red tastes like, why it is a vanilla cream soda despite the red color, and how to build a red cream soda for drinks, floats and frozen treats.
October 22, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Red Bull?
What original Red Bull tastes like, why people call it tutti-frutti, what each ingredient adds, and how flavor houses build an energy drink-type flavor.
October 22, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is the Mystery Airhead?
What the White Mystery Airhead tastes like, how it started, the production-line explanation, and what it shows about color and flavor in candy.
October 21, 2026 · 3 min
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Pink Lemonade Flavor
What pink lemonade tastes like, how it differs from yellow lemonade, the disputed circus origin stories, and how to flavor and color a pink lemonade.
October 20, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Are Swedish Fish?
What red Swedish Fish taste like, why lingonberry is the usual answer, what the ingredients do, and how to build a Swedish Fish-type red berry chew.
October 16, 2026 · 4 min
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What Flavor Is Grenadine?
What grenadine tastes like, why most commercial grenadine has no pomegranate in it, and how to flavor, color and label a grenadine-type syrup or drink.
October 16, 2026 · 3 min
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Cola Flavor
What cola flavor is made of (citrus oils, vanilla, spice, phosphoric acid and caramel color), where the kola nut fits, and how to build a cola that holds up.
October 15, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Red Velvet?
What red velvet tastes like, where the cocoa, tang and cream cheese notes come from, the competing origin claims, and why the red is the hard part in production.
October 15, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Candy Corn?
What candy corn tastes like, which ingredients create the honey-vanilla profile, and what to plan for before building a candy corn flavored product for fall.
October 14, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Dr Pepper?
What Dr Pepper tastes like, which aroma compounds carry its cherry, almond and vanilla notes, and how to build a Dr Pepper-type flavor that holds up.
October 14, 2026 · 3 min
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Vanilla Flavor
Vanilla flavor profile, the difference between extract, vanillin and natural vanilla, price volatility, and why vanilla is the hardest brief in masking work.
September 24, 2026 · 2 min