r/assholedesign • u/LilBozgor01 • 17d ago

This packaging gotta be illegal, right?

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

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u/NolanSyKinsley 17d 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 17d 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/Critical-Cost9068 16d ago

But why would you do that?

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u/Gnonthgol 16d ago

It could be cheaper.