Thanks. The thing that threw me off is that the ingredients label for the coffee-flavored Postum variant includes “natural coffee flavor”. I can’t quickly find reliable information about what “natural coffee flavor” means: a blog post from another beverage maker reports that natural coffee flavor “may be extracted from a variety of plants like chicory, garlic, and yes, sometimes coffee beans” but that the author “can’t guarantee that the flavor company I buy natural coffee flavor from didn’t extract one of the flavor compounds from coffee beans”. I’m surprised that “natural X flavor” is apparently an acceptable ingredients-list entry if it’s not necessarily made from X, and doesn’t say what it is made from?
Thanks. The thing that threw me off is that the ingredients label for the coffee-flavored Postum variant includes “natural coffee flavor”. I can’t quickly find reliable information about what “natural coffee flavor” means: a blog post from another beverage maker reports that natural coffee flavor “may be extracted from a variety of plants like chicory, garlic, and yes, sometimes coffee beans” but that the author “can’t guarantee that the flavor company I buy natural coffee flavor from didn’t extract one of the flavor compounds from coffee beans”. I’m surprised that “natural X flavor” is apparently an acceptable ingredients-list entry if it’s not necessarily made from X, and doesn’t say what it is made from?