Flavor Chemistry: How the Molecules That Make Your Vape Taste Like Mango Affect Your Body
The flavor in your vape is a complex mixture of synthetic and natural aroma chemicals—the same molecules used in food, but inhaled rather than ingested. The flavor chemistry of vaping is a vast, largely uncharted territory of inhalation toxicology.
The mango flavor in your vape is not mango extract. It's a proprietary blend of esters, lactones, and aldehydes—the same molecules that create mango flavor in candy, yogurt, and candles. They are safe to eat. They are not necessarily safe to inhale. **The flavor chemistry of vaping is a regulatory gap: thousands of flavor compounds are being inhaled daily by millions of people, and the inhalation toxicology of the vast majority has never been studied. The flavor compounds are GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) for ingestion—a designation that says nothing about inhalation safety.**
