Nestle to drop artificial flavor and color from chocolate bars

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http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2015/02/19/nestle-to-drop-artificial-flavor-and-color-from-chocolate-bars/?intcmp=features

America’s favorite chocolate like Butterfingers, Crunch and Baby Ruth bars, are getting a makeover.

Nestle USA announced this week that it will remove artificial flavors and FDA-certified colors from all of its chocolate candy.

The company aims to become the first U.S. candymaker to remove such ingredients from its chocolate products and says by the end of the year, more than 250 products and 10 brands will be reformulated with ingredients from natural sources.

For example, in Crunch bars, a natural vanilla flavor will replace artificial vanilla used now. The center of the Butterfinger bars will now have annatto, which comes from the seeds found in fruit from the achiote tree, to replace FDA-certified colors like Red 40 and Yellow 5. In Crunch bars, natural vanilla flavor will replace artificial vanillin.

Doreen Ida, president of Nestle USA Confections & Snacks said in a statement

[alicewonders]

"For example, in Crunch bars, a natural vanilla flavor will replace artificial vanilla used now."

That sounds all well and good.  But I found out recently that the "natural vanilla flavor" that I look for when buying - is NOT vanilla from vanilla beans!  That is called "vanilla".  When you see "natural vanilla flavor" - it is actually something they squeeze from a beaver's anal glands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Yes, let that settle in.  Anal glands!

But hey, it is natural.

[musiclady]

"For example, in Crunch bars, a natural vanilla flavor will replace artificial vanilla used now."

That sounds all well and good.  But I found out recently that the "natural vanilla flavor" that I look for when buying - is NOT vanilla from vanilla beans!  That is called "vanilla".  When you see "natural vanilla flavor" - it is actually something they squeeze from a beaver's anal glands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Yes, let that settle in.  Anal glands!

But hey, it is natural.

Welp.  That's the end of Nestlé's Crunches for me!