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60 Minutes had a report about how food flavors are created and the "flavorists" who create them. First, practice some of the vocabulary in the report. Then watch the report. There's a link to it below the quiz.
Instructions: Choose a word or phrase from the list to fill in the blanks. The vocabulary items are already in the correct form. This means that you can use grammar cues to help you. For example, if you see "are" before a blank, maybe you need to add a verb with "ing." Vocabulary List resist [v] burst [n] gland [n] craving [n] cloaked in secrecy mimic [v] plotting [v] extract [v] enabler [n] mouthwatering [adj] implies [v] note [n] tweaking [v] make your mouth water sniffers [n] on the prowl palette [n] linger [v] The flavorists are (1) tastes and creating cravings. The scientists create natural and artificial flavorings that (2). The flavoring industry is the (3) of the food processing business, which depends on it to create a (4) for everything from soda pop to chicken soup. It's an industry (5). These are super(6). They are (7). Jim Hasseck, whose nose and (8) are legendary, leads a Givaudan team on a taste safari. Do you get a tropical (9)? They are (10) how to move the flavors they find in this grove to your supermarket shelves. When they find something they like, they (11) its flavor molecules from the fruit on the trees. Then back in the lab, they (12) Mother Nature's molecules with chemicals. We create a flavor so good you can't (13) it. In our fruit flavors, we want a (14) in the beginning. And maybe a finish that doesn't (15) too much so that you want more of it. Food companies know that flavor is what makes repeat customers. So they commission Givaudan to create what they hope will be a (16) taste. All flavors are combinations of chemicals; artificial flavors are largely manmade. Natural flavors come from nature but not necessarily from what the label(17). For example, strawberry and vanilla flavor can come from the (18) in a beaver's backside.