This is not listed on the ingredients list but it could be included under "natural flavors".
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Root beer is a very good drink, what most people don't know is that root beer is made out of the root of a tree. Ingredients in early root beers included allspice, birch bark, coriander, juniper, ginger, wintergreen, hops, burdock root, dandelion root, spikenard, pipsissewa, guaiacum chips, sarsaparilla, spicewood, wild cherry bark, yellow dock, prickly ash bark, sassafras root, vanilla beans, hops, dog grass, molasses and licorice. Many of these ingredients are still used in root beer today (especially sassafras), along with carbonation. There is no one recipe. Root beer recipes vary tremendously.
Sassafras has a unique taste that is described as sweet, spicy, and reminiscent of root beer. It is commonly used in cooking to flavor soups, stews, and sauces. In beverages, sassafras is often used to make tea or root beer.
Most commercially available root beers no longer use real sassafras root due to health concerns regarding safrole, a compound found in sassafras. However, some artisanal or small-batch root beers may still use real sassafras root as a flavoring agent.
Root beer is made from the Sassafras tree, its bark for color and its Root for flavor. Thus it is called "Root Beer". Sassparilla is its name during the temperance years.
The main ingredients in root beer are water, sugar, sassafras root bark, and various herbs and spices like anise, licorice, and vanilla.
The main ingredients of root beer are water, sugar, sassafras root bark, and various herbs and spices like anise, licorice, and vanilla.
The key ingredients used in root beer are sassafras root, wintergreen, vanilla, molasses, and various spices like cinnamon and anise.
It is a drink brewed from the root of the sassafras tree. Also known as Root Beer. Actually it's spelled sarsaparilla not sasparilla.
Originally the main flavor came from the root of the sassafras tree which happens to smell just like the drink. Sassafras has been replaced by artificial floors in mist root beer now because its been shown that sassafras may not be good for us to eat. Of course there is going to be some type of sugar and carbonated water. There are many recipes for it but vanilla is a really common flavor that's added to compliment the sassafras flavor.