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Natural Peppermint Flavour
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Natural peppermint flavour is a broader flavouring than a simple extract: still from mint, but compounded or fractionated so a manufacturer can hit a stable candy profile. It may be milder, sweeter, or more menthol-forward than a home extract, and it is often dosed for ice cream, gum, and syrup lines rather than for a teaspoon in a cake. Read whether it is oil- or water-dispersible. In a home icing a pure extract is easier to judge. This variety exists for the labelled industrial and "natural flavour" bottle that is still peppermint, not spearmint and not menthol crystals alone.
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Flavour houses fractionated peppermint oil into stable natural peppermint flavours for candy plants.
Ice-cream and gum lines specified natural peppermint flavour rather than grocery extract.
Natural-flavour labelling put this name on bottles next to pure extract.
Home bakers still reached for extract; plants kept the compounded natural flavour.