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# What is natural flavor?
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/natural_flavor-1126130859/
- Published: 2013-11-26T21:55:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T14:04:00.000Z
- Description: Federal regulations define natural flavor as the oils, essences, extracts, distillates or products of roasting, heating or enzymolysis drawn from spices, fruit, vegetables, herbs, meat, seafood, eggs, dairy or fermentation, whose main role in food is flavoring rather than nutrition.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Knowledgebase, Health News, #vivvo-import

According to Code of Federal Regulations Title 21, *The term natural flavor ornatural flavoring means the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional. Natural flavors, include the natural essence or extractives obtained from plants listed in subpart A of part 582 of this chapter, and the substances listed in 172.510 of this chapter.*Then what solvents are allowed in natural flavors?