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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELi5: How are artificial flavors made?
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Without getting too detailed, scientists place the chemicals of the desired food that they want to replicate, into the food that they are trying to create. Flavors are normally very complex, with sometimes hundreds of different chemicals to create a single taste. But many flavors, particularly fruit flavors, have just one or a few dominant chemical components that make up most of the taste. They place these components into food in order to give it a certain flavor. For example, if you put Octyl Acetate -- what mainly creates the flavor of Oranges -- into a piece of bland gum, you have successfully created Orange flavored gum.