A process for producing a natural tastand or natural food, beverage, chewing gum, oral care composition, tobacco, smoking tobacco article or sweetener composition additives characterized by the sequential steps of: (i) providing a plurality of Saccharum officinarum leaves, macerates thereof or a mixture of Saccharum officinarum leaves and macerates thereof; (ii) carrying out physical separation unit operations on said leaves, macerates thereof or mixture of leaves and macerates thereof, said physical separation unit operations selected from (a) effecting pressurization using hydraulic pressurization means designed to separate solid from liquid, thereby separating liquid leaf extract from pressed cake, wherein the hydraulic pressurization means pressure is in the range of from 13.8 to 34.5 MPa (2,000 to 5,000 psig); and separating said natural tastand or natural food, beverage, chewing gum, oral care composition, tobacco, smoking tobacco article or sweetener composition additives from said extract by means of a second physical separation unit operation; or (b) carrying out steam distillation, whereby said natural tastand or natural food, beverage, chewing gum, oral care composition, tobacco, smoking tobacco article or sweetener composition additives is collected as a condensed steam distillate and said process results in a product selected from the group consisting of: (i) providing a plurality of Saccharum officinarum leaves, macerates thereof or a mixture of Saccharum officinarum leaves and macerates thereof; (ii) carrying out physical separation unit operations on said leaves, macerates thereof or mixture of leaves and macerates thereof, said physical separation unit operations selected from (a) effecting pressurization using hydraulic pressurization means designed to separate solid from liquid, thereby separating liquid leaf extract from pressed cake, wherein the hydraulic pressurization means pressure is in the range of from 13.8 to 34.5 MPa (2,000 to 5,000 psig); and separating said natural tastand or natural food, beverage, chewing gum, oral care composition, tobacco, smoking tobacco article or sweetener composition additives from said extract by means of a second physical separation unit operation; or (b) carrying out steam distillation, whereby said natural tastand or natural food, beverage, chewing gum, oral care composition, tobacco, smoking tobacco article or sweetener composition additives is collected as a condensed steam distillate and said process results in a product selected from the group consisting of: (a) effecting pressurization using hydraulic pressurization means designed to separate solid from liquid, thereby separating liquid leaf extract from pressed cake, wherein the hydraulic pressurization means pressure is in the range of from 13.8 to 34.5 MPa (2,000 to 5,000 psig); and separating said natural tastand or natural food, beverage, chewing gum, oral care composition, tobacco, smoking tobacco article or sweetener composition additives from said extract by means of a second physical separation unit operation; or (b) carrying out steam distillation, whereby said natural tastand or natural food, beverage, chewing gum, oral care composition, tobacco, smoking tobacco article or sweetener composition additives is collected as a condensed steam distillate and said process results in a product selected from the group consisting of: