Natural flavors and fragrances are used almost ubiquitously in foods, beverages and cosmetics. For example, glycyrrhizic acid is a sweet compound containing potassium and calcium salts derived from licorice root. It is used as an expectorant and as a flavoring for pharmaceutics. Its sweetening effect is found to 1200 times that of sugar. Sclareol, an amber colored solid with a sweet balsamic scent, is used as a fragrance in cosmetics and perfumes and as flavoring in food. Sclareol and other similar substances may be prepared from sclareolide. Sclareol is also able to kill human leukemic cells and colon cancer cells by apoptosis.
Stanford Chemicals offers a series of natural flavors and fragrances to research institutes, colleges and universities, pharmaceutical companies and health products companies for research and manufacturing.