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[feiziseed]

Anyone know what are the guidelines to label a natural type flavor on the principle display panel in the US. I understand that in the ingredient list, you can simply put it as "Natural Flavors", but I could not find any information regarding how to label it in the principle display panel. FDA only mentioned how to label WONF flavors and all articles from flavor companies just explain what a type flavor is, but did not explain how to label them, with the exception of the following article.

 

From this article

https://foodsafetyte...atural-flavors/

"For example, what if your product is a lemon pie, but you flavor it only with natural flavors derived from limes? In that case, you must either include by the product name the identity of the actual flavor (for example, “with natural lime flavor”), or you must identify it as being artificially flavored."

 

For example, if you have a natural banana type flavor you want to use it in a milkshake. Do you label it as

 

Banana Flavor Milkshake

Artificially flavored

 

or can you label it as

 

Banana Flavor Milkshake

Artificially flavored with other natural flavors

 

What if you are using two flavors, for example a natural strawberry WONF flavor and a natural banana type flavor for your milkshake

 

Do you label it as

 

Strawberry Banana Flavor Milkshake

Naturally and Artificially Flavored

 

or do you label it as 

 

Strawberry Banana Flavor Milkshake

Artificially Flavored

 

because there are no natural banana in your product?

[kingstudruler1]

"Type" flavors typically usually dont contain any of the characteristic flavor, but are natural.  They would only be labed as artificial on PDP.   

 

If the food contains any artificial flavor which simulates, resembles or reinforces the characterizing flavor, the name of the food on the principal display panel or panels of the label shall be accompanied by the common or usual name(s) of the characterizing flavor, in letters not less than one-half the height of the letters used in the name of the food and the name of the characterizing flavor shall be accompanied by the word(s) “artificial” or “artificially flavored”, in letters not less than one-half the height of the letters in the name of the characterizing flavor, e.g., “artificial vanilla”, “artificially flavored strawberry”, or “grape artificially flavored”.