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The Vermont State Flavor

§510. State flavor
The state flavor shall be maple from the Vermont sugar maple tree. (Added 1993, No. 139 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)

Vermont is the only state that has passed an official State Flavor into law. As the leading producer of maple syrup in the United States it is no wonder that maple was the flavor that was chosen. Though maple syrup comes to mind immediately when one thinks of maple flavor, maple flavor is found in many other foods from ice-cream to cheese to smoked turkey.

Vermont is naturally very protective of its official State Flavor and so has designated, by law, specific guidelines that must be followed when labeling maple flavored products.

(d) The term "maple flavored" may only be used when 100 percent of the flavoring material is a pure maple product. If any artificial maple flavor is used, the label shall clearly and conspicuously state "artificial flavor."
(Added 1981, No. 235 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1985,No. 241 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)

------- from the Vermont Department of Agriculture and the Vermont Revised Statutes, 1999