What is the artificial chemical compound used in British boiled sweet ''pear drop''?

A ''pear drop'' is made from sugar and flavourings. The classic ''pear drop'' is a combination of half pink and half yellow in a pear-shaped drop about the size of a thumbnail. They are more commonly found in packets containing separate yellow drops and pink drops in roughly equal proportions. The artificial chemical ''ethyl acetate'' is responsible for the characteristic pear flavour of ''pear drop''. In 2009 a survey of 4000 adults found that pear drops were the fourteenth most popular sweet in the United Kingdom. A hard candy or British boiled sweet or ''pear drop'' is a sugar candy prepared from sugar based syrup that is boiled to a temperature of 160 C (320 F) to make candy. Most hard candy is nearly 100% sugar by weight. Hard candies are historically associated with cough drops. Ethyl acetate is an organic compound with the formula CH3-COO-CH2-CH3 simplified as C4H8O2. It is an ester of ethanol and acetic acid.