flavors

fun fact: fake grape was the first artificial flavoring made, and it's called grape because the person who discovered it (accidentally, i might add) noted that its taste reminded them of grapes--might be specifically of wine even? i don't recall

it turns out to be a compound that's present in small amounts in certain varieties (but not all or even most) of grape, and present in larger concentrations in some red wines
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the compound in question is methyl anthranilate, by the way
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@Felthry imo if your chemical is the words "anthrax" and "annihilate" mixed together you shouldn't find out what it tastes like

@lioness it's just a methylated anthranilic acid, which is an amino acid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrani (though not one of the ones that occurs in proteins)
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@lioness i don't know where the name comes from but it's probably from the greek name of some plant that it was first extracted from or something
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