Flavouring agents include flavour substances, flavour extracts or flavour preparations, which are capable of imparting flavouring properties, namely taste or odour or both to food. Flavouring agents may be of following three types:-
(A) Natural Flavours and Natural Flavouring Substances:-
"Natural Flavours" and "Natural Flavouring Substances" are flavour preparations and single substance. Respectively, acceptable for human consumption, obtained exclusively by physical processes from vegetable, sometimes animal raw materials, either in their natural state or processed, for human consumption.
(B) Nature -Identical Flavouring Substances :-
Nature-identical flavouring substances are substances chemically isolated from aromatic raw materials or obtained synthetically; they are chemically identical to substances present in natural products intended for human consumption, either processed or not.
(C) Artificial Flavouring Substances :-
Artificial Flavouring substances are those substances which have not been identified in natural products intended for human consumption either processed or not.
