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Flavoring agent includes flavorings and flavor enhancers. Flavorings added in the food produce flavor in the food, while flavor enhancer intensifies the existing flavor. Food flavoring may be of three types.

 a. Natural flavoring: These are single or mixed substances obtained from vegetable and animal source. This type of flavoring includes spice oleoresin and essential oils from citrus oils.

 b. Nature identical flavoring: These are the chemical substances but the identical substances are present in nature.

 c. Artificial flavoring: These types of compounds are completely synthetic and they are not identified in natural products.

Natural flavor includes spices, herbs, essence, and essential oil. The synthetic flavor includes esters, aldehydes, ketones, alcohols, and ethers. Monosodium glutamate is an example of widely used flavor enhancer [12, 13].