Castoreum has been used as a flavoring ingredient for the past 80 years. However, food labels don’t need to list the ingredient by name. It can simply be listed asnatural flavoring. It is (or has been) used as a flavoring ingredient in many foods and beverages, and, as said, particul...
Well - Beavers have a special gland in their bum called the castor gland, which produces a sweet-smelling sticky goo called castoreum. Beavers use castoreum to mark their territory and communicate with other beavers. Ok, cool. But wait! It gets better! 8. We like their sticky bums too! A...
These glands are not exactly anyone’s idea of a heavenly nosh. Anticipating this, the food industry managed to get castoreum added to foods under that innocuous, legal and sometimes not so innocent label: “natural flavoring”. So even if castoreum IS present in foods and beverages like ice ...