What Are Lemon Oreos?

lemonoreosI have been making chocolate covered Oreos for a long time. I always have them in the chocolate room. My favorite is Mint Oreos covered with semisweet chocolate. I think mint and dark chocolate go well together. I was recently at Safeway and saw a big display of Lemon Oreos. I think this is a new flavor. I thought about buying them but decided not to after reading the label, which I found completely baffling. The first thing that caught my eye is that it says on the front of the package that the name of this product is ‘Lemon flavor creme Oreos.’ I am always suspicious of the word ‘creme.’ I don’t know what it means, but I do know that ‘creme’ does not mean ‘cream’. More worrisome is that just above the word ‘OREO’ it says NATURAL FLAVOR WITH OTHER NATURAL FLAVOR.’ What does that mean? I really don’t know. I am not playing dumb. I really have no idea what that means. It sounds both suspicious and ominous. I am sure of one thing. They wouldn’t put something like this on the front of the package unless they had to for some legal reason, but what could that reason be? ‘NATURAL FLAVOR WITH OTHER NATURAL FLAVOR‘ does not mean that Lemon Oreos are made with lemons. There is no mention on the ingredients list of lemons, lemon juice, lemon zest, or anything else that came out of a lemon. Attention, chemistry students! Right now, about 1/3 of my tenants are majoring in chemistry, and most of them are graduate students. One of you chemists should be able to explain this to me.