{"id":26321,"date":"2026-03-09T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=26321"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:08:41","slug":"plantreact-natural-flavors-are-not-made-from-animal-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/09\/plantreact-natural-flavors-are-not-made-from-animal-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"PLANTREACT Natural Flavors Are Not Made from Animal DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-17-at-09-42-43-VJ_issue1_2026.pdf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-17-at-09-42-43-VJ_issue1_2026.pdf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flavor company T. Hasegawa USA manufactures PLANTREACT, vegan natural flavors made <strong>without <\/strong>animal-derived genetic material from a virtual DNA library, according to Mark Webster,\u00a0VP of Sales &amp; Marketing. Intended to impart meat or dairy taste profiles to foods or beverages, PLANTREACT flavors are used in a wide variety of vegan products.<\/p>\n<p>Read about PLANTREACT here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2026issue1\/2026_issue1_PLANTREACT_natural_flavors.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2026issue1\/2026_issue1_PLANTREACT_natural_flavors.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To subscribe to <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> in the USA only, visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\">www.vrg.org\/member<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flavor company T. Hasegawa USA manufactures PLANTREACT, vegan natural flavors made without animal-derived genetic material from a virtual DNA library, according to Mark Webster,\u00a0VP of Sales &amp; Marketing. Intended to impart meat or dairy taste profiles to foods or beverages, PLANTREACT flavors are used in a wide variety of vegan products. Read about PLANTREACT here: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26323,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26321\/revisions\/26323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}