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The Preposterous History of Artificial Flavors, Part One: The Vanilla Problem
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:36:50
Publish Date: 2024-07-11 16:25:03
Description:

For most of human history, people were locked in a continual struggle to find food and avoid starvation. Eating for pleasure wasn't really a thing the common person could do. However, as time went on and technology improved, eating became as much a recreation as a hobby -- and this led civilization to the fascinating, ridiculous world of artificial flavors. In the first part of this week's special two-part episode, Ben, Noel and Max explore the science of flavor, and use the story of vanilla as a way to understand the problems that led to synthetic flavoring in the first place.

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