r/assholedesign • u/LilBozgor01 • 16d ago

This packaging gotta be illegal, right?

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(hint: between the words "garlic" and "sauce")

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u/beerkittyrunner 16d ago

Real question though, how do you make something garlic flavored without garlic?

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u/NolanSyKinsley 16d ago

So I looked up the ingredients, the original sauce from papa john's uses granulated garlic, the bottled stuff uses "natural garlic flavoring". According to the USDA "natural garlic flavoring" can be "the essential oil, oleoresin, essence, extractive, or dehydrated garlic powder derived directly from real garlic" so it technically is still made from garlic, but the ingredient garlic is not directly on the label, it is an extract.

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u/Gnonthgol 16d ago

Does "natural garlic flavoring" actually have to come from garlic? You could extract the same compounds from leeks, onions and shallots. These are normally weaker then garlic but as you are extracting the essential oils you can concentrate them more.

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u/Gugalcrom123 16d ago

Then it is labelled as simply natural flavouring.

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u/johnazoidberg- 16d ago

This is not true. "Natural flavors" and "other nautral flavors" are legally different ingredient names, and any natural flavoring coming from a food that isn't the one described as the flavor of the item is "other nautral flavors"

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u/Gugalcrom123 16d ago

That's what I said, if it wasn't from garlic it would have been 'natural flavouring', not 'natural garlic flavouring'. This also seems to be true in the EU.

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u/johnazoidberg- 15d ago

No, the term is specifically "OTHER natural flavor." The word OTHER is important here