Cynthia Lipka is the current President of the Society of Flavor Chemists and she has been a Senior Flavor Chemist for over 20 years starting her career at Hershey Foods and continuing on to Wrigley, Sethness Flavors and Bell Flavors & Fragrances. She currently works at Prinova.

In this episode, Cyndi and I tackle questions such as how she got started in this niche industry over 20 years ago, what a flavor is, what types of ingredients are used, why flavors are necessary and how flavor trends get started.  She also briefly explains how and why flavors are considered safe for human consumption.