Blackcurrant Flavour facts
While investigating facts about Blackcurrant Flavouring Crossword and Blackcurrant Flavoured Water, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Most Americans aren't aware of blackcurrant flavour (one of the most popular soft drink and confection flavours in the world) due to a ban on the plant in the 1900s because of its role in spreading disease among white pines, a principle industry of the growing American republic.
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The US purple Skittles taste different from those elsewhere due to the ban of blackcurrent in the 20th century which is the flavour of the sweets outside of the US
What flavour goes with blackcurrant?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what flavour is blackcurrant. Here are 7 of the best facts about Blackcurrant Flavour Pairing and Blackcurrant Flavoured Cigarettes I managed to collect.
what flavours go with blackcurrant?
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Blackcurrant flavour is almost unknown in America because blackcurrant can spread disease to pine trees so was banned for most of the 20th century
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Blackcurrant flavour is almost unknown in the USA. (It's seemingly ubiquitous in the UK)
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Blackcurrants (the berries that flavour Ribena) are banned in North America, and only around 0,1% of Americans have ever tasted one.
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Via a candy-making video, that the reason purple sweets in the US are grape flavoured rather than blackcurrant (as they would be here in the EU) is that blackcurrants were banned there from the early 1900s until 1966 - their bushes were a disease vector for "pine rust."
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The flavour Blackcurrant, which is popular in Europe, is largely unknown to Americans due to a ban on the fruit which remained until 2003
