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Introduction
The word 'natural' refers to something made or caused by nature not by human beings, but when the word 'natural' is used for labeling food products, the meaning becomes ambiguous, because most often food products contain only artificial flavors and ingredients, and there are no natural extracts. This ambiguity has sparked a huge debate over the use of the word 'natural'. Particularly, in the absence of a definition of 'natural', it becomes all the more confusing to tell which food products labeled 'natural' are really natural. The nonbinding advisory opinion of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) states
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