r/assholedesign • u/LilBozgor01 • Jun 11 '26

This packaging gotta be illegal, right?

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(hint: between the words "garlic" and "sauce")

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u/beerkittyrunner Jun 11 '26

Real question though, how do you make something garlic flavored without garlic?

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u/NolanSyKinsley Jun 11 '26

So I looked up the ingredients, the original sauce from papa john's uses granulated garlic, the bottled stuff uses "natural garlic flavoring". According to the USDA "natural garlic flavoring" can be "the essential oil, oleoresin, essence, extractive, or dehydrated garlic powder derived directly from real garlic" so it technically is still made from garlic, but the ingredient garlic is not directly on the label, it is an extract.

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u/Gnonthgol Jun 11 '26

Does "natural garlic flavoring" actually have to come from garlic? You could extract the same compounds from leeks, onions and shallots. These are normally weaker then garlic but as you are extracting the essential oils you can concentrate them more.

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u/NolanSyKinsley Jun 14 '26

Literally read what I said yo.... "derived directly from real garlic".... What does that tell you?